Article Archive for December 2011
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ISLAMABAD: The paramilitary rangers has started taking possession of highly sensitive US cargo stranded in Pakistan following the blockade of the Nato supply route by Pakistan in protest against the November 26 air strikes that …
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KARACHI – Judiciary has stepped up into the 4th position from 6th in the previous year in terms of corruption, while land administration department has got the first position on the list of country’s most …
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By: S.M. Hali
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s statement about the constitutional role of Pakistan Army has put to rest rumours and speculations of an army takeover. It has also refuted Yousuf Raza Gilani’s charge of the army …
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by Farrukh Saleem
ISLAMABAD: The GHQ seems to have at least three immediate priorities: the generals want the memogate to be investigated in order to expose breaches over national security; they want US-Pakistan relationship to be …
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By Humaira Naz
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if …
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Karachi: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been sustaining with financial hemorrhage for long period on the high operational cost against its revenue earnings but it has been continued its flight operations at all odds with …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – With the United States facing the reality that its broad security partnership with Pakistan is over, American officials are seeking to salvage a more limited counterterrorism alliance that they acknowledge will complicate …
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Ali Rizvi | PKKH Exclusive
An Islamic state as conceptualised by many Pakistani’s reeks of religious fanaticism, of authoritarian bigotry, of medieval practices, of the oppression of women, discrimination against minorities, of extremism, of …
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A nation that formed and gelled through ten centuries of imperial rule, culture and religion was destined to emerge. The Quaid made it happen in 1947.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan was destined to emerge thanks to our history …
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ISLAMABAD: A briefing by the head of the US Central Command to Pakistani officials on a November 26 cross-border Nato air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and severely strained ties with Washington has been …
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One day an idea is discussed on Twitter in Pakistan. Next day, an anti-military draft is released in Hong Kong, and another submitted to the Supreme Court in Islamabad.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Here is an interesting sequence …
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday rejected a US probe into American air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, providing little sign of a swift resolution to the worst crisis in the countries’ fragile alliance.
“Pakistan’s army does not …
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A U.S. military investigation has accepted some blame for the deadliest friendly-fire incident of the war in Afghanistan but ultimately concluded the airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers were justified — findings expected to infuriate …
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The Inter Services Public Relations department (ISPR) has denied a media report which had stated that DG Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) Shuja Pasha had met Arab leaders to discuss a military coup in Pakistan.
A statement released by …
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ISLAMABAD: The twilight of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – an outlawed umbrella of militant groups – appears to have set in.
The group responsible for most violence in the country is in disarray with its ‘chain …
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ISLAMABAD: Smith Richardson Foundation, an American think tank, claims that it paid $100,000 to Husain Haqqani to write a book, which attacks the Pakistan army and the military-mosque alliance and its implications for US policies.
Haqqani came …
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A Pakistani security salesman was viciously beaten and tortured in a hate crime at a home in an upscale neighborhood in Tomball, Houston, on Wednesday.
The Houston chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wants …
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US government is using the media to downplay the affect of Pakistani blockade. But the G.I.s want their fried chicken, Mr. Panetta.
SPECIAL REPORT | Friday | 16 December 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan—The US military is doing its …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Time for some facts on India’s 1971 invasion of Pakistan.
First of all, there was no ‘Indo-Pakistan war of 1971′.
That’s a misleading description.
India INVADED Pakistan in 1971. Use the right words because there is a …
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The route from Karachi to Kabul was the best way to get supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and the main artery for a Pashtun trucking empire—until Pakistan shut it down.
Like a broker tracking the …
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ISLAMABAD: Stepping up pressure on an already-squeezed supply line, Pakistan on Thursday imposed a ban on export of petroleum products to Afghanistan and Central Asia, meant for Nato troops posted in the region.
The decision was …
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PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) in his reply to the Supreme Court stated that the memo was a reality and a conspiracy was being hatched against the army and national security, a private TV …
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As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress of the Serena Hotel to the …
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US Drops A Charge Against Kashmiri-American Activist
“Let not anyone think that today’s events will slow or otherwise impede the KAC’s work.”
Kashmiri American Council
WASHINGTON, DC—The Kashmiri American Council’s Board of Directors today confirmed their understanding …




