Pakistan Pal

Iran has serious security concerns. These stem from its experiences over the last several decades. In Iran’s perception the West propped up and supported the despotic regime of the Shah under whom Iran and Iranians suffered while its wealth...

A deliberately well publicized campaign involving thousands of US, Britsh and Afghan troop’s code named ‘Operation Mushtarak’ is poised to begin in Afghanistan’s Helmand province with Marjah as the main geographic objective.

Pakistan’s Army Chief spelt out the reality in a talk to the foreign media. He stated that ‘a stable and secure Afghanistan was the real strategic depth for Pakistan’. This kills the oft repeated suspicions about Pakistan’s sinister...

A section of the local media is critical of the content in President Obama’s state of the union address because it did not mention Pakistan! It was a state of the union address so the focus had to be on domestic issues like taxes...

One of the many dilemmas in politics is finding balance between winning elections and providing good governance. In the United States, obsessive focus on the former has turned politics into continuous campaigns whether for office or...

The President of Pakistan has dropped broad hints about conspiracies against him and democracy in Pakistan. The hints are so broad that they leave very little doubt as to who is conspiring and with whom.

The term “winning hearts and minds” is a simplistic and dangerous cliché reflecting a certain naiveté in American thinking that everyone yearns to be like us. In the struggle against those who would pervert Islam and use that despicable...

Speaking to the officers in Lahore the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) said that the Army was ‘single minded in its professional pursuits and totally focused and motivated in accomplishment of its core mission’.

In the wake of the attempted Christmas bombing of a Northwest airliner over Detroit, once again criticism has focused on failure to connect the poor, overworked dots. Yet, however understandable this reaction, Rome is burning in a metaphoric sense

Political adventurism may just be an unavoidable ruckus arising out of ‘organic democratic growth’ the country is underway as Judiciary, Parliament and Media grapple with their ‘newly-felt’ responsibilities,