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By Ahmed Quraishi
This is the first time that Pakistan does not have an ambassador in Beijing for several months now, which is an oddity. Washington and London were the first capitals where the Gilani government appointed ambassadors. That is supposedly understandable. The current government in Pakistan was possible only because of a political understanding – [...]

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.)
(Pak1stanFirst.com Exclusive)
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. [...]

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 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 [...]

The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was placed under the Ministry of Interior (MoI) solely for greater cooperation between the Ministry of Interior and ISI on internal and external fronts, Leader of the House Raza Rabbani told the House during the debate on internal and external security in the country.
He said the decision to place the [...]

Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Dr Rasul Baksh Rais is author of Recovering the Frontier State: War, Ethnicity and State in Afghanistan (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books 2008) and a professor of Political Science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
The United States has not been as much with us as we have been with it. Its outlook [...]

By Makhdoom Babar
The author is the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Mail, an Islamabad-based newspaper that also publishes an international edition from Beijing.

The question that arises here is this: Why has this anti-ISI campaign been launched all of sudden when the ISI is considered to be a major tool in crushing terrorism and extremism? The ISI [...]

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.

‘Pakistan, for example, had no enemies in the Taliban or al Qaeda until (the Pakistani leader) made them such at our behest. Likewise, there could have [...]

Woooo! Man you are sarcastic! Welcome to Pakistan from Me too!
This is in response to the article “Welcome to Pakistan” by Qadir. I totally respect your point of you brother. But I want to look at things from a different point of view, a little 180 degree difference.
The thing is simple; the whole world is [...]

By Humayun Gauhar
Mr. Gauhar is a Pakistani commentator. This is an edited version of the original column that appeared in Lahore’s The Nation newspaper
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Have you ever heard a mouse roar? If you haven’t, you should have heard Hamid Karzai the other day. He called the Taliban leader “Pakistan’s Mullah Omar”, forgetting that the description [...]

“Political instability, a growing insurgency, a demoralized army and an intensely anti-American population are the hallmarks of today’s Pakistan,” remarked US Senator Thomas Cooper recently.  
 
War on Terrorism (WoT) did not start with the advent of 9/11, rather it started in 1980’s when Russia was defeated in Afghanistan, and the USA pulled out abandoning the [...]

Pakistani military should have launched a retaliatory strike targeting the nearby Afghan army posts. The prime minister could have sanctioned the attack after seeking, and receiving, parliament’s consent on urgent basis, even after the operation. If a war is being imposed on Pakistan – and all indications are that this is the case – then [...]

We are not comfortable with the direction of events. The President is in a crisis fighting for his survival; former Chief Justice wants his job back and is willing to get political to any limit irrespective of what it does to the country. The chairman of the ruling party is busy cleaning his criminal history [...]