Tag: NDS
The new US National Defence Strategy
Imran Khan | On January 19th, the US Secretary of Defence, James Norman Mattis, unveiled the unclassified synopsis of the classified 2018 National Defence Strategy (NDS)...
Suicide bomber in Kabul kills one, injures six
AFP | At least three people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in multiple suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the...
Is Daesh in Afghanistan benefiting from the mistrust between Islamabad and...
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | President Ashraf Ghani led National Unity Government and Trump administration have been scapegoating Pakistan, instead of critically examining the causes...
Fereeha Idrees: Why she had to unlearn everything learned in UK...
GVS News | GVS sat down with the TV Anchor, Fereeha Idris, to learn more about her journey to becoming a journalist, what it takes...
Quetta blast: were parliamentarians the target?
News Analysis | The police and intelligence agencies are still trying to assess the target of yesterday’s Quetta attack. They are of the opinion that...
Massacre at Army Public School: Questions that continue to haunt?
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | For Pakistanis, December 16, was always a day of tragedy – and unforgettable pain. On 16th December 1971, Pakistani garrison in...
India’s dirty war inside Pakistan – Part II
Asif Haroon Raja | In the last 15 years, India has been able to make successes against Pakistan:- It succeeded in maligning the image of Pakistan...
A master-plan to balkanize Pakistan – Part III
Asif Haroon Raja | War against the Soviets Fearing a takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz...
Reversing the trend: Pakistan to hand over terrorists’ list to the...
News Analysis | As part of its new strategy to deal with the mounting US pressure, Islamabad will hand over the list of wanted terrorists...
The US failed Afghan policy – Part I
Asif Haroon Raja | It took Donald Trump and his team 8 months to formulate Afghan policy, which was hailed by India and Afghan Government...
Indo-Pak rivalry gets a new bite: Foreign Office calls India a...
News analysis | Amid ever-simmering tensions between India and Pakistan, the Foreign Office has said that India cannot ensure peace and stability in the region...
What does Kabul’s closeness with Delhi mean for Pakistan?
An aircraft laden with 60 tons of Afghan plants with medicinal uses kick started the first air cargo corridor between Afghanistan and India on...
Ashraf Ghani’s outburst: How should Pakistan handle the situation?
Imtiaz Gul | Political temperatures spiked to unprecedented levels with a May 31 terrorist attack in Kabul that has left about 150 people dead. Afghan...
Deadly Kabul Bombing: ISIS or Haqqanis?
Jamal Hussain| The dastardly suicide raid in Kabul on May 31, 2017, must be condemned by all civilised societies and nations. Over 120 people have...
Pak-Afghan border closures: It’s business that suffers the most!
Imtiaz Gul | After 22 days, Pakistan reopened the Friendship Gate at Chaman border crossing on May 27 on “humanitarian grounds” coinciding with the Ramazan...
Why war with Pakistan — is not an option!
Raghu Raman | In the 1983 film WarGames, a nuclear war simulation is accidentally started by a supercomputer designed to take over in event of...
The battle at Hague: Is India trapped in its self-woven net?
Asif Haroon Raja | Pakistan is on the hit list of India, Afghanistan, and the USA supported by NATO and Israel since 2002. The enemies...
Pakistan’s route to safety: Revision of the Afghan policy
Asif Haroon Raja | On May 5, 2017, Afghan border security forces carried out unprovoked firing across the Chaman border in Baluchistan on two Pakistani...
Afghan attack on Chaman border: What are Pakistan’s options?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The Chaman-Spin Boldak Border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has become a heated battlefield since Friday's violations by the Afghan forces....
What halts India & Afghanistan from making peace with Pakistan?
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | Pakistan's bilateral relations with its eastern and western neighbors severely deteriorated during the last two years. Though Islamabad did its...
Af-Pak border heating up: Who is to be blamed?
On Friday, the Afghan forces fired upon troops of the Frontier Corps (FC) who were providing security to the census team on the Chaman...
Spies and terrorists seeping into Pakistan: India’s dirty war
Zeeshan Munir | On 3rd March 2016, Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving commander in the Indian Navy working for RAW, was arrested from Baluchistan. His arrest...
Nawaz’s Silence on Indian Involvement in Sponsoring Terror in Pakistan
Saad Rasool| On Monday, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor, announced that Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former spokesperson for prescribed...
Afghanistan’s Options: India’s Treachery or Regional Cooperation
Dr. Shahzad Latif | Back in the 1970s and 80, when the people of Afghanistan needed liberation from the Soviet oppression, Pakistan stood by their side....
Foreign intelligence agencies setting menu prices for killing Pakistanis!
Mirwais Khan| After last week's heart breaking scenes of people lying dead and their body parts strewn all over the ground where they were working...
All Regional players invited to Moscow to discuss peace in Afghanistan
Russia in an attempt to continue taking leadership in this region has asked five countries to join it to discuss the future of Afghanistan....
Pak-Afghan ties: Any way to end the blame game?
Abdul Rahim | This week the British Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dominic Jermey, traveled to Islamabad especially to try and lessen the vocal tensions between Afghanistan...