“By the soul and Him Who perfected it and inspired it with knowledge of what is wrong for it and what is right for it: indeed successful will be the one who keeps it pure, and indeed failure will be the one who corrupts it!” (Qur’an;91:7-10); “And verily We have raised in every nation a…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) mourned. September 5 was the blackest day of its national history when 45 Emirati soldiers lost their lives in Yemen, they were killed during an accidental blast at an ammunition store of the 107th Brigade in the Eastern Yemeni oil province of Marib. This is the highest number of UAE…
In times of natural disasters and other catastrophes, the officers and men of the Pakistan Navy have been rendering exemplary services both in the country and abroad. These fine attributes of mobility were at their best when Pakistan Navy Ships and Helicopters reached out to the helpless souls of the fateful Tsunami, stranded in and…
“India has aggressed and is waging an all-out war against Pakistan. Our brave comrades in the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force have already given the enemy a telling answer and inflicted heavy blows. The Nation stands solidly behind the Supreme Commander and the Armed Forces. I call upon all officers and men of the…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb/IED BlastsThe chief of a local peace committee, Dilawar Jan, was killed in a bomb blast at Suri Pao village in Maidan area of Lower Dir District on August 10, reports Dawn. Dilawar Jan was returning from a mosque after Fajr prayer when the remote-controlled blast occurred, killing him on the…
Launching the unmitigated disaster that was “Operation Gibraltar” in 1965 it was criminal negligence not to anticipate a far wider Indian response than the conflict being only being restricted to Kashmir. Even though after Rann of Kutch in May, formations like 7 Div, etc had moved out of their peacetime locations, our military hierarchy were…
Former Federal Minister and close aide/confidante of PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, Dr Asim Hussain was remanded for 90 days by an Anti-Terrorism Court under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 because of what the Rangers described was “credible information about his involvement in terrorism-related activity and embezzlement of funds”. Asim soon started coughing out a roomful…
The justice will prevail. The peace will prevail. The people will prevail.Chinese President Xi Jinping Most recently, China held its 15th victory parade since 1949. It was the first non-National day parade held by China at the heart of Beijing, and the first to have invited foreign troops to march in it. It was also…
On an election petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) alleging poll rigging in NA-125 in Lahore, an election tribunal decided in May this year that the irregularities were serious enough to cancel the constituency’s 2013 election results. Terming it null and void, the tribunal de-seated PML (N)’s Khawaja Saad Rafique, the Federal Minister for Railways….
In an erratic move, the Afghan government has walked away from the second round of the peace talks with mediation of any second country, and has asked Pakistan to take action against Taliban leadership in its territory instead of bringing them to the negotiation table. The former president, Hamid Karzai who recently opposed Ghani’s soft…
