Saturday, January 18, 2025

The Shadows of Painful Memories

As the shadows lengthen on this December 3rd, 2011 late afternoon, I hear some voices from afar, from a day long forgotten by most....

From the Editorial desk (January 2012)

The New Year is usually associated with joy but this time around a great many countries approached it bad that happened, whether in Pakistan...

Special Emphasis On Terrorism (January 2012)

Bomb AttacksNine volunteers of Zakhakhel tribal lashkar (militia) were killed and six others injured when a bomb concealed in a donkey cart exploded near...

The Webmaster

The Supreme Court (SC) having given notice to several respondents in the Manzoor Ijaz – Haqqani Memo issue, the govt resorted to its usual...

Crying Wolf?

The compulsions for survival has driven our leaders over the past decade to allow the US-Pakistan relationship to gradually degenerate into a master and...

When “Friends” Fall Out

By all accounts Hussain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz were good friends, the tone and tenor of the BlackBerry exchanges clearly show they made for...

Cyprus: Yearning for Conflict Resolution

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) commemorated its proclamation day last month. Cyprus conflict falls in the category of those international disputes whose equitable...

The 2011 Syrian Peoples Uprising

Eight months ago the mass protests in Syria erupted like a volcano, and took the fascist and repressive Bath Party led Syrian regime by...

The Fourth Generation Warfare

Over the past decade or so, the use of term Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) has become a culture in the Pakistani military circles and...

An Epic Dogfight over Srinagar

The much-awaited II Corps offensive on the Western Front got overtaken by events as the 1971 Indo-Pak War headed for a mortifying finale for...