Tag: independent
The graveyard of Indian tanks: the battles in the Sialkot sector...
Saleem Akhtar Malik | In this sector Pakistan’s 15 Division, consisting of four infantry brigades (24,101,104, and 115) and 6 Armoured Division, faced Indian I...
PM Abbasi Echoes ‘Aliens’ Syndrome, Gets Reprimanded By ECP
News Analysis | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, recently repeated the claims once made by the embattled Sharif family. These claims confirmed...
CJP’s intervention for independent PEMRA is a ray of hope for...
News Analysis | Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar, has clarified on Monday that the Apex Court wanted to end the Government’s control over...
Can hypocrisy and intervention go side by side?
Jacob G Hornberger | Whatever bombs Donald Trump decides to use against Syria, one thing is for certain: the U.S. government has already dropped enough...
India feels the heat as Maldives grows more Independent
News Analysis | The government has been closely monitoring the evolving situation in the Maldives and keeping a constant watch on all developments that have...
PML-N Senate candidates declared independent by ECP
News Analysis | Candidates nominated by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were declared independent by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday. The ECP...
Modi reveals changed stance after three-hour visit to Palestine
News Analysis | On February 10, Prime Minister Modi made a three-hour visit to Ramallah, Palestine, from Amman, Jordan and said “India hopes to see...
World Economic Forum is more than a rich man’s club
Ikram Sehgal | Named for the Alpine resort town in which the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting is held, the prevailing misconception is that...
Gujarat Elections 2017: BJP wins but loses in public eye
News Analysis | The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will retain power in Gujarat for a sixth straight term, after it just about edged past the...
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed by rebels
Reuters The radio station of Yemen's Houthi-controlled interior ministry said on Monday the militia's former war ally, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed though...
57% of Americans think US should mind its own business on...
Jacob G. Hornberger | One of the burning issues of our time is the role of the U.S. government in foreign affairs: Should the United...
Will US succeed in creating rifts between Iran & Iraq?
M K Bhadrakumar| The US project to create a rift between Iraq and Iran backfired just a couple of days of its launch from Riyadh...
How tiny Qatar’s wealth saved it from starvation ?
James M Dorsey | Food security has taken on a new dimension almost five months into the Gulf crisis that pits a UAE-Saudi alliance against...
Is Kurdistan a US-Israeli conspiracy to balkanize Middle East?
M K Bhadrakumar | The result of the Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq will be known in the next 48 hours or so, but no surprises...
Unlike Trump, JFK didn’t bend the knee to US Establishment
Jacob G. Hornberger | Like President Trump, President Kennedy was subjected to the same type of pressure by the Pentagon and the CIA to engage in...
Should FATA merge with KP or become an independent province?
The committee created by PM Nawaz Sharif in Nov 2015, headed by trusted lieutenant, Sartaj Aziz, after several months of work was clear that...
