TTP terrorists attacked the Central Jail in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday night and freed more than 200 terrorists besides killing a handful of prisoners and security staff. DI Khan is a major city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and is close to South Waziristan Agency. The attackers sixty in...
In a brilliant move to distract the public attention from the real perpetrators of Sukkur suicide attack on ISI office, various terrorist organizations have been tasked to claim responsibility and further confuse the public opinion on who could have done it. Social media is abuzz with the theory...
The border tension between India and China at Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh area is nowhere near recession; it is actually escalating and China is brushing aside Indian protestations. Incidentally, there are no independent sources in that area to report developments except Chinese and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have caved in finally to the US pressure over extradition of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. He has indicated that he would not like to sacrifice Russo-US relations for Snowden. Reuters has quoted him as saying that he did not want a dispute over...
The proverbial cat is out of bag and Pakistan’s populist Supreme Court has announced its decision on the Report of Media Commission. As expected, the court in its ruling made public on its website has chosen not to touch the sensitive parts of the Report. The most sensitive is dubious...
The calculated leak of Abbottabad Commission Report through Aljazeera has clouded another explosive report of Media Commission. This report contains revelations by the media regulator, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and observations of the Commission. As expected by those...
This was bound to happen one day, the scariest nightmare for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and its leader Altaf Hussain. Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza, who carries the treasure trove of classified dossier on MQMs mafia-like activities and its Don like Chief Altaf Hussain, has landed in London on the...
Pakistans premier intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, has again become the target of a renewed spate of criticism. It has always been a favorite whipping boy of Pakistans politicians and media after the advent of free media channels. The anchors, politicians and all those who...
Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, has accused his country's security establishment of its incompetence and lax attitude that allowed Osama bin Laden to live undetected inside Pakistan for nine years. Haqqani, generally believed to be working on CIA dictates, was shown...
The developments in Cairo suggest, as corroborated by the reaction of Brotherhood, that Nobel Laureate and diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei could be the next president of Egypt. Minutes before militarys deadline, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad told the media that the military was...
The developments in Cairo suggest, as corroborated by the reaction of Brotherhood, that Nobel Laureate and diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei could be the next president of Egypt. Minutes before militarys deadline, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad told the media that the military was...
Though the world had pinned great hopes on the outcome of ongoing talk in Doha, Qatar where the Taliban were allowed to set up their mission, no headway is in sight till the filing of this report. This amounted to extending much needed legitimacy to Taliban to the discomfort of Karzai regime in...
The coup or a military rule may be the most detestable option in the eyes of the beneficiaries of a sham democracy but in certain cases it is the last step of choice to save a country and its institutions from falling into chaos. President Morsi of Egypt, a representative of Islamists in his...