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Five years ago the Americans were refusing to speak to the Taliban. Now the Taliban are refusing to speak to the Americans. That is a measure of how the balance of power has shifted in …

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ISLAMABAD: Thousands of members of Difa-e-Pakistan Council groups rallied near parliament on Tuesday as leaders of the right-wing Defa-e-Pakistan Council, including Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, warned the government against reopening routes for transporting supplies to US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Saeed, …

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The self-proclaimed saviours of Karachi fled to Dubai yesterday leaving the hapless citizens of the city to fend for themselves as the city came to a standstill in face of violence and arson.
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NATO Containers should carry perishable items only.

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja
Gen Musharraf had accepted the US demands in September 2001 since he suffered from legitimacy bug and country’s economic health was unsatisfactory.  He agreed …

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Prime minister of Pakistan, Mr. Yousuf Gillani has asked his economic team, to prepare next year’s budget and this will be his government’s last budget in this tenure.
The highlight of his recent meeting with this …

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By Aneela Shahzad
I am not a historian of the Quaid, but the Quaid is the founding father of my country and I have, since I can remember, taken pride in having this slim, elegant, meticulous …

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By Aneela Shahzad
Secularism might not seem to be such a frightening phenomenon if one considers it to be a system whereby the government does not intervene with the choices people make in their religious matters. …

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U.S. negotiation efforts with the Taliban have failed and the United Nations should take the lead to optimize the chances of ending almost 11 years of war, a think tank said on Monday.
In a blow …

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KABUL: The West is prepared to pull out of Afghanistan without a settlement and attempts to negotiate with the Taliban are unlikely to lead to lasting peace, a respected think tank warned on Monday.
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MFN status to India conditional to resolution of Kashmir dispute.

“In Shimla agreement when Z A Bhutto agreed to redesignate ‘Cease Fire Line’ to ‘Line of Control’ the fate of Kashmir was sealed. Now the politicians are …

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Media is reinforcing misperceptions on Balochistan

by Brig Asif Haroon Raja
All nationalist Baloch leaders and the rebellious Baloch Sardars several of whom are in self-exile absconders are carrying out noxious propaganda against the security forces. They …

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By Dr Shahid Qureshi
Coming from a family which migrated from Indian East Punjab into Pakistan in 1947, Pakistan day on 23rd of March every year use to be heavy and saddening for my late mother. …

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by Raja Mujtabah
Pakistan has paid a very heavy price for American friendship and at the end of the day Pakistan stands isolated and humiliated in the eyes of its own people. This is the worst …

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The threat to National Purpose, thus has become endemic, because United States has succeeded in achieving ‘Media Management goals’, and now is aiming at ‘Perception Management’ of the Pakistani nation. For this purpose, a huge …

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PKKH Exclusive by Kulsoom Khan with additional reporting by Tabish Qayyum
The aftermath of the French killings has once again unveiled the anti-Islam front the French government openly endorses. When reports first surfaced of a murderer …

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WASHINGTON - Former CIA head and current US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, had wanted to establish a parallel spy body inside Pakistan hidden from ISI, a noted Pakistani author said, adding the idea was approved by the Obama Administration.
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NEW DELHI: High drama was witnesses in a trial court on Tuesday when a man arrested on charges of being a Pakistani spy here to kill Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, said he was being framed by …

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The latest atrocities in Afghanistan are just par for the course.

by Glen Ford
The American atrocities in Afghanistan roll on like a drumbeat from hell. With every affront to the human and national dignity of the Afghan …

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A Pakistani Army soldier with the 20th Lancers Armoured Regiment, patrols on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Image Credit: AP

Kalpani Base, Pakistan The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the …

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ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) has revealed in the Supreme Court that Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are active in Pakistan. He was …

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by Maria Sultan
There is sea difference between the two cases which have recently taken Pakistan by storm, or shall we say which took Pakistani media  by storm in the recent weeks. With all fairness, the …

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Rich Indians have forgotten the country cannot meet the basic needs of poor people.

by Amrit Dhillon
Rich Indians hallucinating about India becoming a superpower have had delivered a much-needed thump on the head courtesy of a …

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ISLAMABAD: Amid apparently strained relations between Pakistan and United States, a mini-America is in the making in the heart of Islamabad.
After controversies of Blackwater, Raymond Davis, the hiring of dozens of houses in Islamabad for …

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I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned …