For more than a decade, the United States has been reaching out to the Muslim world, courting Islamic moderates even as it wages war with religious extremists. Washington’s efforts have been concentrated mostly on the Middle East, with little success. The Americans might do better...
International media attention on the mass hunger strikes last spring propelled Guantanamo back onto the radar.
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC recently ruled that Guantanamo detainees could bring legal challenges to their conditions of confinement. The court’s decision...
WASHINGTON — President Obama, apparently resigned to President Hamid Karzai’s refusal to sign a long-term security agreement with the United States before he leaves office, told him in a phone call on Tuesday that he had instructed the Pentagon to begin planning for a complete...
Former foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan fears that some in Pakistani establishment could still be harbouring the misplaced hope of seeing Taliban return to power in Kabul and warns against exaggerating apprehensions of growing Indian influence in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the...
The tragedy that struck a Kilo-class submarine of the Indian Navy early on Wednesday snowballed into a national disaster by evening as Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi's resignation was accepted by an apparently miffed Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
A spate of mishaps and accidents have...
Now, the Pakistan Air Force is committing air striking in North Waziristan against the terrorists. By now, more than 50 terrorists have been killed. The on-going strikes from the Armed forces, is the retaliation of the brutal murders of its 23 FC men by Taliban extremists. It was...
Two recent events highlight Israel’s potential role as an arms supplier to South and Southeast Asia.
Israel has once again enjoyed a very significant presence during the recently concluded Defexpo, held in New Delhi, and Singapore Airshow. Not only did it show off its state-of-the-art...
Civilian deaths have sadly become routine in Syria, but they are not always powerfully photographed and presented to Western readers — despite a nearly constant flow of cell phone images out of the country.
Abdullah Omar is 20 years old, and works as a translator. On Sunday,...
Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the level of cooperation between Pakistan and the UK should be raised a notch higher.
He said this while talking to Charles Farr, Director General of Security and Counter Terrorism, UK, who...
A day after the government tried to assure the Senate of no policy shift on Syria, it followed suit in the lower house on Tuesday as it “vehemently rejected” media reports on a foreign policy U-turn. Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz...
Pakistan is making extensive and precise use of its own indigenous drones in the current surgical strikes against the Taliban, security officials and experts confirmed on Tuesday.
A top official said ground intelligence, combined with accurate data by the Pakistani drones, had made...
Operation ‘Rah-e-War’….Raheel did in three months what Kayani could not do in six years …Backgrounder
Even though they say that the only thing tougher than putting a new idea into an army is taking an old idea out of it, the army adapts. The army evolves. And from what we are seeing...
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