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China is continuing to deepen its already close military ties with Pakistan as it seeks to retain a key role as a partner of a country that the United States also boasts as a close ally. While the US and other Western powers focus on China's growing military presence in the Pacific and the...

The outgoing US ambassador to Pakistan needs to be congratulated for one thing: she did an excellent job of meddling in Pakistani media and politics. She is credited with organizing a pro-US cabal inside Pakistan that springs into action whenever the US is criticized in Pakistani media...

Mogul emperor Shah Jahan, four and half centuries back, waxed lyrical on the sight of beautiful Kashmir valley nestled in the bosom of mighty Himalayas and called it paradise on the earth. In his wildest dreams he would not have imagined that one day this land will become more hellish than hell...

Laurie Goodstein’s article, ‘American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?’ was intended as a sympathetic reading of the concerns of US Muslim communities facing increasing levels of hostility and fear. While generally insightful and sensibly written, the article also highlights the very...

At least 50 religious scholars belonging to the Barelvi school of thought on Friday issued a joint fatwa (religious decree) declaring that both suicide bombers and their handlers deserved hell. The decree by the scholars associated with the Barelvi groups in the Sunni Ittehad Council, a...

The U.S. Wants to Save the World From Terrorism, Who Will Save the World from the U.S.? The arrogance and the false air of superiority with which the U.S. government behaves in the contemporary world, besides tiring, are becoming a danger to the survival of humanity. To my knowledge, except for...

Cricket scandal part of psy-ops against PakistanThe latest allegation of match-fixing against Pakistani cricket team is said to be part of a greater psy-ops against Pakistan in which Indian intelligence and a Western secret service men jointly staged a drama to de-moralize the Pakistani nation...

This isn't the first incident, at least third in few months. and if US can't even get along with Afghan troops, whatever will become of winning hearts and minds of ordinary folks. A media report says that an Afghan soldier killed two US-led soldiers in a shoot-out when they tried to remove...

The scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief : "The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom, fourteen million Pakistanis are affected, two million are homeless." Six million need...

On 26 January 1992, Murli Manohar Joshi, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, after travelling by road all the way from the southern tip of India, was airlifted from Jammu to the heart of Srinagar where he half-raised the Indian flag near historic Lal Chowk. All of Kashmir...

A Chinese general and military strategist has slammed planned US troop exercises in Asia as a provocation and has accused President Barack Obama’s administration of trying to encircle his country and sow chaos with its China policy. Maj Gen Luo Yuan penned his broadside in the Liberation...

Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a former commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said. The digging of the graves appears to be a show of bravado after the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said...

A former Pakistani spymaster credited with helping create the Afghan Taliban says Pakistan’s India focus would not change unless what he called the “root cause” of “Indian state terrorism in Kashmir” was addressed. “It is for two reasons this kind of terrorism which is going on in Pakistan,”...

Pakistan has suddenly become the scapegoat for what is going wrong in Afghanistan. Pakistan has suddenly become the scapegoat for what is going wrong in Afghanistan. The latest documents released on WikiLeaks (92,000 documents in total) reveal that in Afghanistan USA is losing the war and the...

US defense secretary Robert Gates hinted at a possible unilateral military action inside Pakistan by US troops in Afghanistan. The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Tuesday took ‘strong exception’ to the anti-Pakistan statement of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and summoned...

A former Pakistani intelligence official reveals a foiled attempt by CIA officials to steal secret nuclear documents with the help of a Pakistani military officer. Former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lt. Gen. Javed Ashraf Qazi said Saturday that in 1994-95, Pakistan's intelligence...

Journalism is not about patriotism. It is not about ‘my country right or wrong’. Journalism is about the Truth. In India, however, far too often a journalist’s first commitment is to his country rather than to the truth. Nowhere is this more evident than in our reportage on Kashmir and Pakistan...

Will ‘PakMilitary’ Recognize The Real Foe? How can we have information and intelligence-sharing with a country that has systematically done and continues to do a hatchet job on our premier intelligence agency and Pakistan military? It is time for Pakistan to sever its links and cooperation...

"We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval," Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich said Friday, pointing to reports the United States was stepping up its presence there. Paul said the US military has...

It was a relatively flawless performance. With Washington stuck in its Afghan review and Pakistan’s cities under bombardment, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched down in a hostile Pakistan in October 2009 on a self-proclaimed propaganda mission. Greeted with bombs from Tehrik-i-Taliban...