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The latest conspiracy to divide Kashmir

By Afshain Afzal • Jun 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Many decades back Germany was divided by greedy powers as booty of war. Since then the West Germany was controlled and exploited by US while the East Germany by Russia. However, despite propaganda machineries on full throttle, even the time could not make the divide of Eastern and Western Germany permanent. The artificial divide through [...]



The Words of Wisdom

By Afshain Afzal • May 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Few days back, an Indian court declared Ajmal Amir Kasab guilty in November 2008 Mumbai attacks, after all the charges against him were proved. Ajmal Kasab has been awarded death penalty but he may challenge the court’s decision in the higher Indian court. No doubt, what Ajmal Kasab did in CST is worth condemnation in [...]



SOS - From Faith Massacre

By Aftab Alam • May 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Inflicting, bringing forth & maintaining severe bleeding wounds; Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq & Afghanistan in Muslims spiritual as well as geographical body on one hand and provoking Muslims Masses by carrying out very blasphemous &  rude caricatures in innumerable websites on the other, are the deeds which are very much fertile seeds of terrorism being sown [...]



The India’s Great Game

By Afshain Afzal • May 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

The arrest of youth hailing from Tantraypora area of Palhalan in Pattan on the Srinagar-Baramulla national highway, trying to cross over to other side of Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan is an eye opener for Pakistan. The arrest came in as a result of communication gap between Indian Intelligence [...]



Commonwealth Games in India

By Afshain Afzal • May 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Early this year, the US intelligence passed on an intelligence input to Indian authorities that the Al Qaeda might target Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The Indian government, accordingly, alerted all those who were responsible for the security. However, it turned into hoax alert. This time US intelligence issued new Intelligence inputs on April 20, [...]



US Hearing on LeT: Bad Company or a Bad Call?

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • May 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

It was a vintage Indian proxy propaganda exercise, exploiting US political system to the hilt in a bid to malign Pakistan. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia had convened a hearing on the topic; Bad Company: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Growing Ambition of Islamist Militancy, in room 2172 [...]



Obama’s Nuclear Games

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

An interesting policy development has taken place in the US under the Obama administration. As one recalls, Obama made much of nuclear disarmament and on his commitment for this goal. Well, it appears being in office alters many perspectives and President Obama’s worldview on many issues has altered qualitatively from the positions he espoused as [...]



India’s Pakistan-Centric Calculus

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Apr 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

An objective analysis of India’s national security policy leads us to the conclusion that the assumptions underwriting the policy are predominantly focused on Pakistan. Especially the military component of national security apparatus perpetually spews out a stream of Pakistan phobia. The phenomenon has historic and cultural groundings, so strongly perpetuated by myths that rhetoric, more [...]



Chasing a Mirage

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Mar 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

PAK-US  relations have all along followed a roller coaster profile. Presently, these are enduring a snowballing mistrust. Both sides realize that their bilateral relations as well as associated multilateral interactions are mutually beneficial. It is in this backdrop that droves of American visitors keep landing in Islamabad. When some of them go back and testify [...]



Leaders vs. Dealers

By Aftab Alam • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan miseries are older than her birth. Prior the partition Punjab dissection was devised to hurt ruthlessly Pakistan’s vital interests in the approaching days. Same was the tragedy of the of Bengal partition strategy.
There were some 570 princely states in United India; only 3 had not acceded to the newly born countries; Pakistan & India. [...]