Tag: national security
BJP promoting religious divisions & fear psychosis: Kashmiri leaders
News Desk | Earlier today, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley labelled that “militancy” in the occupied state of Jammu & Kashmir is the greatest challenge...
Pakistan is capable of deterring any misadventures: FM Qureshi
News Desk | On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi stressed that dialogue is the only way forward for relations between India and Pakistan, and...
Asia Bibi will soon leave the country: PM Khan
News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan during an interview with BBC on Tuesday has said that Asia Bibi is fine and will be leaving...
Big blow to Indian narrative: U.S says IAF shot no Pakistani...
News Analysis | U.S Defense Department has confirmed that Indian claim of shooting down a Pakistani F16 is baseless after two U.S defense personnel have...
Pakistan to respond India at time and place of its choosing:...
News Desk | Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, 26th February chaired an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) to observe the emerging situation...
Trump, Hitler, and the Enabling Act – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | The terrorists had just fire-bombed the German Parliament building. Even worse, it turned out that the terrorists were communists. German leader...
Is PTI going to hold mid-term elections?
News Analysis | Mr. Naeem ul Haq Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Political Affairs has refuted the reports regarding mid-term elections. Mr....
Arrests fuel anxieties among China Canadian expats
AFP | The arrest of a third Canadian in China has heightened anxiety even in an expatriate community accustomed to some level of fear and...
Trump faces China trade showdown, Russia, Saudi tensions at G20
AFP | President Donald Trump will hold a make-or-break trade meeting with his Chinese counterpart at the G20 summit this week and also navigate a...
Chinese Consulate attack: Time to teach India a lesson?
Jan Achakzai | The attack on Chinses Karachi Consulate by India’s proxy “ethnic separatist group tagged as BLA” has taken Delhi’s involvement in subverting Pakistan...
Mumbai Terrorism: Why, who benefited? Reflections 10 Years later…
Dr. Graeme MacQueen | Ten years after the Mumbai terrorism (26-29 Nov 2008), Pakistan is still battling its ghost and India has acquired a “multi-dimensional...
Lessons from Khashoggi’s murder- Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is being accused of ordering the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and...
Supreme Court decides to hear Hussain Haqqani case in chambers
News Analysis | The Supreme of Court of Pakistan has accepted the state’s request to hear the case against Hussain Haqqani in the chamber. A...
Kidnapped from Pakistan, murdered in Afghanistan: The curious case of SP...
News Desk | The Superintendent of Police (SP) Rural Peshawar, Tahir Khan Dawar, who went missing from Islamabad last month, has been reportedly killed in...
Don’t kill the “Invaders” – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | As some of you might know, I was a trial lawyer for 12 years in Texas before I shifted into the...
Indian Supreme Court wants Modi government to come clean about alleged...
News Analysis | During proceeding of a petition filed in the Indian Supreme Court against the alleged corruption in the $8.7 billion worth Rafale jet...
Has the US policy in the Middle East failed? – John...
John Glaser | The ongoing controversy surrounding the murder of a dissident Saudi journalist and Saudi Arabia’s brutal bombing campaign of a largely defenseless neighbouring...
What if the IMF says NO to Pakistan?
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan | What "If" the IMF indirectly says no to us. How can they do that and why would they do that....
Trade war will not stop global growth: IMF
AFP | An all-out trade war would slow the growth of the global economy, but not stop its expansion, with the United States and China...
Trump’s conspiracy theory about Christine Blasey Ford – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | Now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed Brett’s Kavanaugh’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, undoubtedly there are lots of people...
Reforming our madrassas – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | PTI’s 100-day plan is ambitious. It spans areas concerning governance, economy, agriculture, environment, social sector reform, and national security. And, truth be...
Book Review: Ghost Wars
News Desk | Steve Coll has made a name for himself as one of the foremost reporters of this generation. He is the author of...
Still dying for nothing in Afghanistan – Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger | It wasn’t until history class in college that I heard of the Thirty Years War. My immediate reaction was: No way!...
Chorus of condemnation intensifies in U.S. over trade tariff
News Analysis | Massive US tariffs have come into force as condemnation of the Trump administration's move intensifies. Top congressional Republicans joined the collective criticism...
Indian misconduct continues to fuel conflict in Kashmir
News Analysis | On February 20, 2018, the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) conducted a seminar on “Crimes against Humanity-Genocides and Ethnic Cleansing” in...
Why did Pakistan refuse EU grant for support of electoral process?
News Analysis | Pakistan has refused a European (EU) grant of €15 million proposed for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and election monitoring...
US ambassador admits they need Pakistan’s support
News Analysis | Foreign Secretary (FS) Tehmina Janjua received the US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Ambassador Alice Wells on Monday at the Foreign Office...
Maleeha Lodhi fires back at American UN ambassador’s hostile remarks
News Analysis | Maleeha Lodhi took a firm stance against the contentious remarks made by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations by...
Trump government will cause new Korean War
Jacob G Hornberger | If war breaks out in Korea, which is increasingly likely, make no mistake about it: the cause will be the U.S....
Uber paid hackers $100,000 to hide security breach
Reuters | Uber Technologies Inc paid hackers $100,000 to keep secret a massive breach last year that exposed the personal information of about 57 million...
What does CIA want from President Trump on JFK assassination?
Jacob G. Hornberger | There are now two weeks left before the National Archives releases CIA records relating to the President Kennedy assassination, records that...
The illegality of Trump’s ‘Afghanistan war’
Jacob G. Hornberger | When President Trump attributed his flip-flop on Afghanistan to his team of military generals, who informed him that a withdrawal from...
Trump ‘New’ Afghanistan strategy is neither new, nor a strategy
Rupert Stone | It is a common feature of democratic politics that more a leader promises change, the more things will stay the same. Professions...
Pakistan can pull the plug on the US
News Analysis | Pakistan has started to mull over options to confront the new US South Asia strategy which has ramped-up pressure on it. The...
Will Trump continue the CIA’s cover-up in the JFK assassination?
Jacob G. Hornberger | Last week, the National Archives suddenly released a batch of long-secret official records relating to the JFK assassination. This was surprising...
Trump’s rejection of a tyrannical system
Jacob G. Hornberger | Notwithstanding President Trump’s many faults, failures, and foibles, let’s give credit where credit is due. Last week a suspected member of...