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According to international law, it is illegal to use drones to kill non-combatant civilians. As per American law, it is illegal to drone a US-born terrorist. American taxpayers, whose hard-earned dollars are used in war efforts, and particularly in drone killings, are generally very sensitive to...

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Even a novice in the art of mass media would know that the real target of TTP militants was Saab 2000 Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircrafts. They were not even interested in the assembly line of JF Thunder aircraft being co-produced at Kamra. This attack is a rerun of a similar attack on...

The ISI started getting bad name in the 70s when a civilian dictator, who got to power by sacrificing half of the country, mandated the agency to hound his political opponent instead of hounding national enemies. The agency got politicised then and is reaping the harvest. Professionally, it is #...

Pakistan's intelligence agency has been ranked as Number One intelligence outfit of the world. According to the ranking, the second best is Israel's Mossad. MI6 and CIA are ranked as number 3 and 4 respectively. RAW has been ranked as number 9. According to the ranking, with the lengthiest track...

American investment in Indo-US nuclear deal goes down the drain…. As the experts were wary of Indo-US nuclear deal, the worst has started taking place. The deal which was supposed to signal a new era of strategic and economic cooperation between India and the United States seems to have fallen...

The gory incident of Wisconsin massacre has raised the issue of safety of religious minorities in the land of opportunities, equality and civil liberties. When the news broke, everyone was in shock waiting for the Right-wing media to start blaming the Muslims. Mercifully, the attacker was killed...

Al Qaeda and the US are fighting a battle against their common foe; Bashar al Assad regime in Syria. Shocked anyone? Al Qaeda is America’s Enemy Number One because it launched the worst attacks on American soil on 9/11. The US has spent a whopping sum of more than a trillion dollars of American...

It is very important that Obama should not take the Iran bait because it will help strengthen the Mullah regime in Iran.

Whether or not Iran possesses a dirty bomb right now is different matter. But Iran poses the threat, nonetheless, and a very grave threat to global peace and economy, in the event of an attack on its nuclear installations. This was also endorsed in the most critical report of the nuclear...

Israel and the US plan to strike Iran in October… The emerging developments are not confusing anymore. The US and Israel have decided to seal the fate of Iran’s nuclear installations. And it is not very far off. According to some assessments, the attack can take place any time between now and...

Indians should watch out. India has come under US pressure on the issue IPI pipeline and banning Iran oil in Indian waters. Pakistan is still resisting the pressure.

Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia make a very complex triangle of relationships. Unfortunately, Pakistan can enjoy good relationships with only one of them. Our strategic compulsions, however, do not allow us to abandon any one of them. Iran is Pakistan’s Western neighbor and sits on the...

Central Asian Khanates and states, rich in mineral deposits like oil, gas and uranium have always been a target of attention of the super powers. In the 19th century, Britain and Russia fought a war of shadows to extend their sphere of influence to this region. The war of shadows was later...

Some elements of Pakistani electronic media who have launched a campaign to discredit ISI and security agencies on the hyped issue of Baloch missing persons have maintained criminal silence on massacre of Muslims in Burma. This issue is in fact a joint venture of foreign agencies and some of the...

The United States encouraged India in early 60s to develop a nuclear device to fight China without comprising its commitments as a Soviet ally. In the era of Cold War, as we all know, India was a bitter opponent of the USA and a close ally of USSR. India remained staunch ally of USSR till...

When President Obama announced last year America’s intentions to shift focus from Middle East and an expanded engagement in Asia, the analysts thought unanimously that this new focus comes amid growing concerns among America's regional allies that its leadership role in the Asia may be fading –...

A Soviet army general was known to be on CIA payroll but KGB could not unearth if the said general had sold any national security secrets to CIA. After disintegration of USSR, he disclosed that he was indeed on CIA payroll but he did not sell any secrets. His only job was to promote mediocre...

The US had applied all the tactics, many of those clearly dirty and blackmailing like raising the issue of Balochistan, in order to pressure Pakistan into submission. This country, which is now subsisting on international hand-outs, successfully held its ground on principles and resisted all...