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Omer Amir | South Asia’s roundabout 2 billion population deserve a prosperous, opulent and vibrant future. They have been relegated to the sidelines of global development for far too superficial raison d’etre and held hostage by wavering War-Hawks and weak Doves. Despite the immense talent and...

(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers, even as Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city’s outskirts, officials said. There...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan hopes to make big achievements from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization after gaining its full membership as the group makes efforts to bring all the members – especially Pakistan and India - closer. Senior officials at the foreign ministry told The Nation that Pakistan...

China has aggressively courted Pakistan as a potential ally. Matthew Reisener May 9, 2018 Nearly two decades into America’s War on Terror, policymakers remain perplexed about how to navigate the United States’ relationship with Pakistan, an ostensible ally that has long been accused of offering...

In 2017 alone, Chinese defence spending rose by a massive 5.6%, totalling a staggering £168 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). China’s defence budget stands well over three times as much as Russia’s or India’s, though it is still much lower than...

F-35B Lightning II pictured during first flight operations in Arizona in March. Photo: Sgt. Allison Lotz/US Marine Corps ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Ankara will receive its first F-35 fighter jet from the US in June. This is despite a faltering relationship between the two NATO members and recent...

In April 2018, the AFP News Agency published an article detailing its visit to the Mirage Rebuild Factory (MRF) at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC).[1] The complete AFP article is available on Dawn News, but it provides an insight into the MRF’s activities in keeping the Pakistan Air Force’s...

Dr Shakil Afridi. Photo: File The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to conduct an operation to stage a prison break for Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi who had helped US authorities track down al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, a Russian news agency has claimed citing a source familiar...

KARACHI : Pakistan has expressed its willingness to provide modern training, technical assistance and necessary resources to the army troops of military alliance of Islamic countries to deal with terrorists. Pakistan will cooperate in the matter keeping in view its national security policy...

Deaths of fighters reported as government positions in Golan Heights are targeted for second time in recent days. Israeli forces have attacked pro-Syrian government groups in the countryside of Quneitra, two days after carrying out similar strikes in the same region. An Al Jazeera...

PHOTO: AFP KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers on Wednesday claimed to have detained five al Qaeda terrorists working with India’s premier spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), from Karachi’s Mawach Goth area during an intelligence-based raid. The militants who reportedly belong to the terrorist...

Raheel Sharif's role in a multinational coalition has tilted Pakistan toward Iran’s sphere of influence. Arif Rafiq April 7, 2017 TweetShareShare Islamabad has given clearance to recently retired chief of army staff Gen. Raheel Sharif to command what is being described as a “Muslim NATO”...

Kuwait agrees to build oil pipeline in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Kuwait has agreed to pour millions of dollars into building a white oil pipeline from Pakistan’s south to north for transporting petroleum products from the port city of Karachi to major consumer Punjab. “During a recent visit to...

IDEX 2017: PAKISTAN REPORTEDLY EXPRESSES INTEREST IN SERBIAN ARMAMENTS At IDEX 2017, Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production (MoDP) Rana Tanveer Hussain visited the display of Yugoimport-SDPR, and reportedly reiterated Pakistan’s interest in the NORA B-52 self-propelled 155 mm/52-caliber...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2013. (Mian Khursheed/Reuters) Afshin Molavi is co-director of the emerge85 Lab and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Shortly after Egypt’s 2011 uprising ended with...

Pakistani security forces killed dozens of suspected militants on Friday, a day after Islamic State claimed a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 worshippers at a Sufi shrine in the latest of a series of bloody attacks across the country. The bombing at the famed Lal Shahbaz Qalandar...

Babur Version 2 land-attack cruise missile. THE U.S. SANCTIONS SEVEN PAKISTANI FIRMS The United States has placed sanctions upon seven Pakistani firms, including three state-owned bureaus engaged in defence development work. These sanctions were placed because the U.S. government had...

Saudi Arabia invites rival Iran for talks on Haj return RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has invited regional rival Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year’s Haj after Iranians were excluded from the pilgrimage following a major diplomatic row, reports said on Friday. The Al-Hayat daily...

Photo credit: Associated Press of Pakistan THE PAKISTAN ARMY IN 2016 (AND BEYOND) The Pakistan Army has had a particularly eventful 2016. From selecting a new Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) to initiating several armament procurement programs, the past year has set a foundation for development in...

S-400. Photo credit: Wikipedia RUSSIA & INDIA INK MUCH-AWAITED S-400 LONG-RANGE SAM DEAL India has inked a much-awaited S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system purchase from Russia. According to Russia Today, an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) regarding the S-400 was...