Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide BombingsAt least 24 people, including 14 female students, four nurses and at least three Frontier Corps (FC) per sonnel along with Quetta Deputy Commissioner, identified as Abdul Mansoor Khan and two others were killed and 27 injured when uniden tified terrorists blew up a bus of Sardar Bahadur Khan (SBK)…
The Federal Interior Minister’s excellent initiative for reinvigorating the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) effective is most welcome, so is the concept of a National Intelligence Secretariat, NACTA has been mostly dormant, mostly due to the obduracy of Rahman Malik. He wanted NACTA to function under his aegis, with good reason NACTA officials feared Malik would…
Holding Parliamentary elections in about 60 days from a standing start, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) says that “Local Bodies” polls cannot be held soon for various reasons, informed sources claim delays may range from 4 months to 8 even. The deliberate foot-dragging in the various Provincial Local Bodies Bills confirms lip-service only to…
Mamnoon Hussain stands elected as the 12th President of Pakistan but not before quite unnecessary controversy generated by the Supreme Court (SC). The PML (N) had the required numbers even if PPP had not boycotted the Presidential elections process. The “unconditional” support from PPP’s former ally, the MQM, gave additional insurance. The PPP ruling party…
The negotiation phenomenon has officially started and temporarily barred between the US and the Afghan Taliban at Doha. The Karzai administration is also on board with a few reservations. However, reservations are becoming a stumbling block not only against the US but also for the entire dialogue process. The way Karzai is pronouncing statements against…
Gap between Pakistan’s state policy and public aspirations in the context of Pak-US relations is quite wide. Moreover, public sentiment is hostile about the areas of divergence, and indifferent regarding areas of convergence. Most important issue that America and Pakistan are conjointly seized with at the moment is post 2014 Afghanistan. And this is the…
War is a constant feature of human history and often peace is described as intervening period between successive wars. Although all wars are destructive to life and property, the Napoleonic wars (1803-1815), World War I (1914-19) and World War II (1939-1945) are considered to be the major or total wars. These wars were ‘waged between…
Colonel Aga Javed Iqbal passed away in Dubai on July 16, 2013. He was from the first generation of post-independence officer corps that joined Pakistan army right after independence. He was from the generation that absorbed all the best traditions of British Indian army and carried it forward in the formative years of the army…
BackgroundNo precise information is available as to how this young Abyssinian girl ended up for sale in Mecca. Neither do we have any substantial record regarding her antecedents. There were many like her, boys and girls, Arabs and non-Arabs, who were captured and brought to be sold in the slave market of the city. A…
“Abraham was neither a “Jew” nor a “Christian”, but was one who turned away from all that is false, having surrendered himself unto God; and he was not of those who ascribe divinity to aught beside Him.”(Qur’an;3:67). “Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). ” So you see that…
