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The military runs the foreign policy, largely due the sheer incompetency and the lack of adequacy of the foreign ministry. For more than two years, PM Nawaz sharif had failed to appoint a full time Foreign minister, instead giving that job to two advisers. One of which was also the acting...

Pakistan army and FC have almost 500 check posts along the Pak-Afghan border. Afghanistan has less than a hundred. We cant rely on the 480 km trench to keep the militants from escaping and then re-entering. We need a fence period ! The Afghan government must step up is efforts to increase ANSF...

This is factually incorrect, Byzantines lost Jerusalem to the Arabs in 637. The first crusade ended with its capture in 1100 and after the third crusade, Jerusalem continued to be ruled by the Arabs and then ottomans. From 637 to 1917 apart from the 60+ years as a crusader state, Jerusalem was...

Its pointless to look at how they got inside France. The fact is that they are already inside France. Thousands of men and women traveled to Syria from EU to join ISIS. 1200 came from France alone. If they could have easily gone out, they could just as easily get in aswell. ISIS has no shortage...

Kerry: Syrian government and opposition to meet by Jan. 1 Paris attacks changed focus of world powers' meeting in Vienna on Syria November 14, 2015 8:42AM ET High-level talks on the future of Syria have produced an agreement to seek meetings between the opposition and the government of...

OMG :frown: more than a hundred killed. This is horrible ! Its time for the whole world to stop playing games against each other in Syria and start to coordinate attacks against ISIS together. There needs to be just one coalition against ISIS. How much more blood has to be spilled before they...

Height of incompetent journalism ! Now he is putting words in Gargashes mouth. When did UAE FM call pakistan an iranian stooge ?

In theory , Pakistan already has Sharia. Since there are many provisions that ensure legislation is to be done according to the confinements of Islamic jurisprudence . for example 227 Provisions relating to the Holy Qur'an and Sunnah. (1) All existing laws shall be brought in conformity...

State visit from Belarus, Tajikistan and not to mention PM will be also visiting Turkmenistan on 17 November. Pakistan seems to be really eager to pitch CPEC to eastern europe and to Central Asia.

The question is what type of Sharia ? Unlike Iran and Saudi Arabia, the religious community in pakistan is immensely polarized. What type of Islamic jurisprudence should we look to ? Brailvi ? Shia ? Ahle Hadees ? Pakistan already has a "Council of Islamic Idealogy" , who's duty is to guide the...

I think the noose is slowing tighting on Jamia Hafsa and the lunatic burqa clad molvi abudl aziz. Lal Masjid is the modern day equivalent to Masjid-al-Dirar. It should suffer the same fate.

You are the kind of guy that would find salt even in mithai. Having such a nihilistic view on everything positive going on, must certainly be depressing. No offense, but you come of as a total nitpick. If you haven't noticed, work on CPEC is speeding up. The western alignment road is 90%...

Have you ever even met an Afghan ? They hate us more than our eastern neighbors. They blame us for burning kabul. Our relations have never been cordial with them. We have a major land dispute with them. Afghanistan is the worst thing that has happened to us, the illicit drug trade and the...

First of all, Afghanistan is too big to become a province. Its twice the size of Baluchistan. Secondly, even if lets say Taliban take over the entire country, which btw they have never been able to. Why would they join us. They are not our vassals, infact what would happen is that they would lay...

Bear grills never eats rotten carcasses though. Its quite intriguing that she didnt take a shot at the Military this time around. I generally respect women and would never use this word but when i see Asma Jahangir , the first word that comes to my mind is "C@NT"

Can an Islamic State Levy Modern Taxes? Can an Islamic state impose taxes such as Wealth tax, Income tax, Customs Excise, Sales tax, Gift tax, Capital Gains tax, Property tax, etc., on its Muslim citizens in addition to Zakat? This question is being hotly debated these days.The issue cannot be...

No actually its quite the opposite. The concept of taxes is not foreign to Islam. Infact, taxes have been an integral part of the early caliphate. Zakat which is an alms-giving tax also happens to be one the pillars of islam. The rashidun caliphs ( imposed a wide range of taxes). Kharaj was an...

The actual GDP figures are somewhere close to 500billion. The problem is that most of the traders pay no taxes, and keep no records about their turnover, so they become part of the informal economy. This is the same reason why the trade unions are protesting withholding taxes on bank...

Highly doubt that Sindhi would want to succeed from Pakistan. The only separatist party their is Jeay Sindh Qaumi mahaaz, but that too is in tatters after the death of their leader GM Syed. They are largely irrelevant in Sindh. On the other hand. There are many separatist movements in US...

True that , the author cant even distinguish a T-80ud from the AK, the two pictures in the middle are of T-80UD. Furthermore , he never mentions the AK-1 upgrade . Looks like a simple Wiki job. Some one needs to contact the dawn team.