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By Fatima Rizvi
Mrs. Rizvi is a Pakistani commentator based in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh.

Everyone in Washington and New Delhi mentions ISI when talking about terrorism. Really? What about the Israeli Mossad, the Indian RAW, and the American CIA? Who had links with Al-Qaeda all along? Certainly not the ISI. The fact is that ISI never had [...]

By: Nayyar Afaq
(Nayyar Afaq is a prominent student of the physics department at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. Afaq has written a beautiful, classic poem dedicated to his political role model.)
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Have you ever studied Darwin’s “theory of Evolution”? For me, to some extent, it’s equally applicable to the international relations and all the conflicts. [...]

By Humayun Gauhar
Mr. Gauhar is a Pakistani commentator. This is an edited version of a longer column that appeared in Lahore’s The Nation newspaper.
If a nation is genetically strong, not only will it survive, it will also grow stronger and more vital through trial and error. If not, it will die anyway, whatever you do. [...]

Pakistan has banned the main Taliban militant group behind a wave of suicide attacks in the country that has killed hundreds of people since last year.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan - an umbrella group for the Taliban Islamist militants who have threatened more suicide attacks - will have its bank accounts and assets frozen, the interior ministry said.
“We [...]

By Kamran Haider
(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing in Karachi)
Published by: Reuters.com
A day after President Pervez Musharraf quit, leaders of Pakistan’s fractious coalition government squabbled over the judiciary on Tuesday and a bomb killed 25 people, underscoring the challenges facing the nation.
Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its [...]

By Koh Gui Qing
(Editing by Jerry Norton)
Published by: Reuters.com
Pakistan’s coalition government needs to prove its mettle on political issues to investors in immediate weeks ahead now that it is finally rid of President Pervez Musharraf, financial analysts said.
Analysts said the next 30 days is a key period to test the resolve of the government [...]

Editor’s Note: This article contains strong material not suitable for sensitive readers and children.
Editor’s Warning : The images in this Report are very Disturbing.
By ABDUL RUFF Colachal
Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal is a research scholar, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
A group of saffron-clad Hindu extremists entered the Muslim marvel of Taj Mahal, [...]

By Abbas Jafari
Tensions heightened when fanatic Hindu mobs imposed an economic blockade on the Jammu- Srinagar National Highway with Kashmiri Muslim truck drivers targeted. Indian Punjab, tellingly, followed suit, according to a BBC report, to once again expose the great myth of Indian secularism. Be part of the great developments taking place in [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI

President Karzai of Afghanistan has violated a basic undeclared code of honor that all Pashtun, in Pakistan and Afghanistan, live by, indeed all Pakistanis and Afghans do: Loyalty to your friend, especially one who helped you when you were desperate. Karzai lived on monthly Pakistan government stipend in Quetta. He became [...]

By ZAID HAMID
This column is extracted from a situation report released by BRASSTACKS, a security and defense analysis think tank based in Islamabad. Mr. Zaid Hamid is its Founding Consultant.

It was President Musharraf who was most annoyed over PPP decision to weaken ISI. It was after this disagreement with the U.S. that it was [...]

By Laila Sohail
Laila is a young Pakistani woman.

Musharraf’s biggest mistake is that he tried to be a democratic leader while he could have easily been an authoritative one. What was required perhaps was that he ruled this country like a true dictator, changing the political system and snubbing all opposition. He joined a political party [...]

By Sarmad Gilani
Mr. Gilani is a Pakistani commentator.
In Beijing, world celebrates human achievement while in Islamabad we are stuck with politics

I wish our people and our leaders would understand that having political differences should not stand in the way of appreciating progress

Thanks to President Musharraf export revenue more [...]

In order for the impeachment move against President Pervez Musharraf to succeed, it is necessary for the government to have the support of 295 members in a combined House of 442. The National Assembly has a total of 342 members and the Senate 100 members.
Eight clauses of Article 47 of the Constitution relate to the [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI
he Bush administration is playing a dangerous game by encouraging the elected government in Pakistan to pick an unnecessary confrontation with the country’s powerful military. And by being willing to play along, the government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is failing the first test of any government: to passionately defend Pakistan’s interest [...]