American interests in Balochistan go beyond the local political and insurgent issues. The area has geopolitical significance
06 January, 2012 02:10:00
The same Mansoor Ijaz later made a statement that the chief of ISI, Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, had gone to some Gulf countries to seek support for a military coup in Pakistan but this statement was ignored. If Ijaz’s first statement was as credible as to demand resignation of Hussain Haqqani how can his second statement be less credible? ...
20 December, 2011 02:25:00
There is no spontaneity. The protests are indeed staged by the religious fringe on the orders of the military establishment through its various foot soldiers in the Militancy Incorporated....
03 December, 2011 09:25:00
Who will blink first – Kayani or Zardari? It is possible that while the family loyalist- Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Reza Gilani does the tough talking, Zardari will keep the channels with the GHQ and Pentagon open for any exigency....
12 November, 2011 02:00:00
Pakistan has turned to its all-weather friend to secure what the USA has denied to it in terms of N-parity with its South Asian nuclear neighbour. And the Chashma complex is China’s first nuclear energy plant project abroad, and CNNC cast it as a launching pad for expanding into the global market....
03 November, 2011 04:20:00
His theme is always brief: hate and anger towards the US, the West and India, not always in that order. He has appeared on all major US TV channels and the BBC more than once and almost every month one or two leading newspapers in the West publish interviews with him. The media in Pakistan has never shown veneration towards him but today it dutifully keeps the readers posted up-to-date with Musharraf speak....
19 October, 2011 07:25:00
The number of registered religious schools in Pakistan stands at 10,973. Success of Madressah reform hinges on syllabus and integration with the mainstream school education. On both counts, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah does not hold out any hope. ...
31 August, 2011 06:45:00
ISI is a part of the army and reports to the army chief. Many heads of ISI have gone on to become army chiefs. Present army chief Pervez Kayani was heading the ISI just before his elevation. And the ISI chief of the day, Lt Gen Pasha, is Kayani’s close confidant and has been rewarded with an extension. So much so projecting the ISI alone as the fall guy is no more than a good academic exercise. It doesn’t whitewash the reality that there is a second front in the war on terror in the heart of Pakistan's security forces....
28 August, 2011 10:10:00
Judge Shahid Raffique’s order that former President Musharraf's property be seized and his bank accounts frozen in connection with the case concerning the assassination of Benazir Bhutto demonstrates that all is not lost in Pakistan and the long arm of law, if it so wishes, is capable of catching the wanted by his shirt collar....
24 August, 2011 06:33:00
Most of the violence in Karachi is on account of turf wars between leaders and activists of the PPP, MQM, and the ANP, who have aligned themselves with slum landlords, drug barons and gun-runners in their competition for land, political influence and control of the ‘protection racket’. There is a Kashmir angle to the Karachi violence as well..Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has reasons to worry about Karachi since the city is home to the Mehran base of the Navy, which was attacked by Taliban in May. But Gen Kayani sees risk in taking up 'assignment Karachi'....
UN REPORT ON BENAZIR'S ASSASSINATION