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GORDON DUFF: PAKISTAN’S IMRAN KHAN; LOOKING FOR “AMERICA” IN THE STRANGEST PLACES Traveling around Pakistan is a challenge for an American nowadays. It’s not the highways. It isn’t even that our second vehicle was “armed to the teeth” as we weaved...

Pakistan's 6-month fiscal deficit at 2.7 pct of GDP KARACHI, March 1 (Reuters) - Pakistan's budget deficit for the first six months of the 2009/10 fiscal year (July-June) was 2.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the Finance Ministry said on its web site on Monday. This was within a...

Hello people, and welcome to the First Annual Pakistani Private TV Channels Awards. I, Wamid Mir, will be your host for the evening and with me will be the lovely, Dr. Shireen Blackwater Baymaari. Let’s kick off this grand event, but first, a choti se break, and a word from our main...

Afghanistan and Pakistan face decisive year Guest columnist Ahmed Rashid says 2010 looks like presenting Afghanistan and Pakistan with their most difficult set of challenges since the end of the Cold War. People in the South Asia region will be holding their breath in the new year. If...

Pakistan in crisis as 'creeping coup' unfolds THE political crisis in Pakistan has deepened after the Government's anti-corruption agency sought a warrant for the arrest of the country's Interior Minister. Officials from the National Accountability Bureau asked for permission to arrest...

Inflation fuels Pakistan dissatisfaction with govt RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan's middle classes are increasingly being squeezed by price hikes, fuelling dissatisfaction with an unstable government that is struggling to contain Taliban attacks. In a country with huge disparity in wealth...

Afghanistan stabilization may depend on Indo-Pakistani reconciliation An intriguing geopolitical chess match is being played out between two nuclear rivals, Pakistan and India, over the future of Afghanistan, the outcome of which will markedly shape the nature of the Afghan nation for the long...

Pressures on Pakistan's President Mount Pakistan's president under pressure to step down or relinquish powers amid Taliban fight Pakistan's unpopular president is coming under increasing pressure from the powerful army and political opponents to resign or relinquish most of his powers...

Obama's nuclear spring An Israeli attack on Iran's atomic weapons plants rests on one thing – the US president's approval The talk in Israel, explicit and open – including in the country's leading daily, Haaretz, last week – is about a war in the coming spring or summer. The skies will have...

The mystery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui A Pakistani neuroscientist and mother of three is to stand trial in New York for attempted murder. But shadowy questions about her life remain – including her links to al-Qaida and her five 'lost' years On a hot summer morning 18 months ago a team of four...

Seymour Hersh has penned a piece on the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in The New Yorker. This being a taboo topic in Pakistan, the author is being attacked on the veracity of his sources. Perhaps he should tackle an even more taboo subject in his next piece — what has Pakistan gained...

A quagmire of indecision Islamabad is desperate for support in its civil war against the taliban PETER PRESTON It is "the most dangerous place in the world", according to Barack Obama. It's also where 90% of our own home-front terrorist threat comes from, according to Gordon Brown...

The Indian Ocean: A Critical Arena for 21st Century Threats and Challenges By Ellen Laipson Think of the Indian Ocean as a geographic region, where more than two dozen states along its rim interact as neighbors and sometimes competitors, where outside powers pass through, for...

HI! This is comparative analysis thread for FGFA and J-XX J-XX [1] (or J-X), [1][2] XXJ[1] and F-XX are names applied by Western intelligence sources to describe a programme or programmes by the People's Republic of China to develop one or more new fourth- or fifth-generation fighter...

This is an interesting article. Reminds me of our very own Chanakya. There is a thing or two to learn for India.;) US finally wise to Pyongyang's ways By Andrei Lankov SEOUL - In the past few weeks, North Korean watchers have been confronted with a sight they do not see frequently...

With the start of waziristan operation first thing that comes to one`s mind is that- Will the success in Waziristan operation end the terrorism in pakistan? Also some confusing facts are coming that terrorists are offering very less resistance to PA in waziristan than expected?? What`s the...

India's indigenous conventionally launched UAV RUSTOM Rustom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

DRDO NISHANT is uav developed by indian defence research and development organisation. It is uav which eliminates need for airpad or airbase. It is catapult style rocket launched. DRDO Nishant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dassult neuron uav. It is the most advanced uav than any other uav in the world. Have your say Dassault nEUROn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia