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BrassTacks is Pak1stan’s top Security and Strategic threat analysis company. They have done series of shows on tv channels. These Programs provide a great insight in worlds history, economic affairs and worlds efforts on war on terror. This information is particularly very usefull for companies who want to invest in Pak1stan. If you need [...]

By ZAID HAMID
A sea of people flooding the streets in a massive show of force carrying the Green and Crescent of Pakistan. How can we Pakistanis not be moved? Who says Kashmir issue is over and all that we Pakistanis can do is ‘peace talks’?   See what the New York Times says. Four million Kashmiris have turned the Indian cliché of [...]

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 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. [...]

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 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 : 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
The soul of our country needs to be awakened … When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.” - Veterans Fast [...]

By: Editor@Pak1stanfirst.com
We are receiving news from all over Pakistan which are not staisfactory at all. We are not going to provide our analysis this time just the news we are receiving from our sources.
Chief of Army staff Summons Core Commanders to GHQ, Rawalpindi:
An out of routine core commanders conference is called by the Chief of [...]

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 [...]