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Pakistan’s most persecuted minority, the Hazaras of Quetta have exposed the ugly face of country’s so-called democratic dispensation. As against the perception created by media about Army’s negative impression of Balochistan, Hazaras have demanded once again that in order to...

Pakistan’s failed democracy has dealt a severe blow to the confidence of common man. Pakistanis have started to hate the system of governance imposed on them through a dubious exercise of polls and ballots in 2008. The injury inflicted by the sham democracy is of a permanent nature. The people...

The sole super power needs to fix scanners in deadly drones to separate of the targets of drone on the basis of their passport details; because under the provisions of the American Constitution, it is legally not permitted to kill an American terrorist through predator drone. There was a lot of...

If we infer from empirical evidence that Gwadar Deep-sea port on Makran Coast is first of the three major factors of Balochistan insurgency, it will not be an exaggeration. The other two factors are natural gas and oil reservoirs in Balochistan which are “weapons of mass destruction&#8221...

The media is upbeat again for having another golden opportunity of army-bashing. This time it is Kargil operation of 1999, one and probably last in the series of operations to take back the Siachen Glacier occupied by the Indians in 1984. The Kargil conflict has again come to limelight after...

Those who have pinned hopes for stability in South Asian region on withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan in 2014 are in for shock and disappointment. The region will plunge into more instability after competing interests of Pakistan, Iran, India and China come into play and each...

Criticizing Israel is no less than an act of blasphemy and criticism by someone from the US can dash all his hopes to be someone important in the administration. Sen. Chuck Hegel from Nebraska and a decorated Vietnam veteran, recently nominated to take the reins of US war machine as Secretary...

There are a very few persons who are genuinely accredited with making of history through their honesty of purpose, commitment to their duty and passion for defending their nation. They have this raging desire to punish all those indulging in the luxury of violating the sovereignty of their...

The hereditary political leadership started disappearing from the world political map with ushering in of the times of democracy; because hereditary leadership and democratic values are incompatible. Hereditary leadership is also called dynastic leadership in which heir to the throne is the...

When asked about the kind of weapons used in the next world war, Albert Einstein said: “I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with---stone clubs.” The WWIII will...

Nelson Mandela is in news again; this time for entirely wrong reasons. The shining star of our times belongs to the galaxy of history’s great people. He is struggling to survive in a hospital but looking at his age, he will one day meet the fate all great people meet, but death will not rob him...

The conqueror of the world is the one who conquers hearts-Iqbal, poet philosopher Winning hearts and minds has always been the ultimate objective of any war because without winning hearts and minds, the victory cannot become sustainable. A rough translation of the poetry of great Oriental...

Despite their excellent fighting capabilities, Pakistan’s government and its establishment have consistently been defeated on one front, and that front is of the battle for perceptions. In 1971 war with India, Pakistanis failed to convince the world that RAW and its veritable arm, so-called...

Finally, the terrorists have given a shut-up call to those elements in Pakistan’s media, and the whole of Indian and international media, who found an opportunity in the latest incident of planting of bomb in the car of a TV anchor, Hamid Mir, to malign Pakistan’s intelligence agencies. The...

The unceremonious exit of CIA chief, Gen Petraeus, is still shrouded in mystery. Though the media, particularly of the tabloid variety, had a field day and a fat stream of revenues at the cost of Petraeus-Broadwell duo but one thing is now becoming clear; the lady biographer was not the reason...

India’s plans to counterweight Pakistan’s submarine capability, and have an edge over China’s inferior submarine technology forced it to go for French submarine, a sister boat of Pakistan’s Agosta. But its plans have run into snags and have been severely frustrated. The blame has been laid at...

The conflict in Gaza has finally come to another inauspicious end following a ceasefire agreement. But it has established something as a cruel reality which was heretofore a perception; the sole superpower is, in fact, a puppet state of Israel. The self-proclaimed champion of human rights and...

America’s drone war has already become controversial. Those in Obama administration have also started questioning the propriety of killing through drone attacks. Drone attacks in foreign lands, without express approval of the government of that country, has grave legal implications. It is feared...

Pakistan is not the only place where politicians, judges and bureaucrats are jealous of generals and the real cause of jealousy is not the capacity of generals to rule from behind the curtain. It is the perks and privileges traditionally enjoyed by the top military leadership. Even in places...

The lawyers’ community seems to up in arms again, this time against Pakistan’s armed forces. The resolution of Rawalpindi Bar to condemn the statement of army chief and IHC’s recent admission of a petition by a disgruntled ex-army petitioner give very serious indications. Not...