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Pakistan has deployed more troops on the eastern border with India, saying the heightened tension with the neighbouring country has affected its efforts against the Taliban and other extremist organisations on the western border. Confirming the report about reinforcement of troops on the...

The Pakistan government is all set to buy faulty Chinese scanners worth $71 million though a team carrying out performance assessment also expressed serious apprehensions about the equipment posing health risks to unsuspecting general public. The machines are being bought from China against a...

A senior Chinese government official has revealed that the country has backed away from a plan to install a major gas pipeline from Pakistan to China, thus dealing an indirect blow to a recently-approved project to install a key trunkline from Iran to Pakistan. The pipeline to China was...

If the war against terrorism is Pakistan's war (and it most certainly is) then all the investment required to fight the war should come from within Pakistan. Many would argue that it already has. Even head-in-the-sand ostriches in Pakistan's political spectrum would not argue the facts. Over...

This whole writeup makes a lot of sense to me......I think people should read this:

Criticising the present Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led government for not being able to break the deadlock over the Kashmir issue, senior Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (JUI) leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has accused them of conspiring to divide the Kashmir region permanently between India and...

We forced India to talk, says Pak minister :blink: I wonder why the hell is India still busy planning dates to meet these guys.

Some 60 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power after a bloody civil war and established the “People’s Republic” of China. The CCP was able to win the civil war because most Chinese people were disappointed with the legitimate Guomindang government, a corrupt and...

The Chinese government says it has sent unidentified food inspectors to crack down on new cases of milk products tainted with deadly melamine. Eight teams of inspectors were sent to 16 of China's 34 provinces where these cases have resurfaced, said an official with the National Food Safety...

Pakistan's conviction that militant groups are strategically useful to counter India are not only hampering the fight against terrorism but also helping Al Qaeda sustain its safe haven, says the US intelligence community. "Islamabad's strategic approach risks helping Al Qaeda sustain its safe...

Washington: Taking note of India's "growing influence" in global affairs, the US has said the country will be a net provider of security in the Indian Ocean and beyond with the growth of its military capabilities. "The distribution of global political, economic and military power is shifting...

As India completes 60 years of its Republic, the diamond jubilee of its Constitution, those words, that had been spoken by Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of State for India in 1927, still resound in our ears. He said sarcastically in the House of Commons while challenging Indians: “Let them...

Between 2006 and 2008, only 2 percent of the terror multinational’s victims were Westerners.The rest were citizens of Muslim countries. Even as al Qaeda claims to be their defender. Between 2004 and 2008, only 15 percent of al Qaeda’s victims were Westerners, and that number skewed...

Pakistan has reportedly sent an army combat unit to Yemen to join the war against the Shia fighters in the country's north. An informed source with the Pakistani daily Jang has said a 300-strong unit of Special Forces has been deployed in Yemen. US media reports say the US military and...

Even while the United States has offered huge military and non-military aid to Pakistan, including the much sought after F-16 combat jets, American officials believe that Washington is careful enough to not to disturb the balance of power in South Asia. Pentagon officials told The Los Angeles...

This is an interesting write up I found while skimming through a Leading Pakistani Newspaper. To Al Qaeda Hi! Honestly, I wasn’t surprised at Der Spiegel’s recent report that between 2004 and 2008 your members killed eight times more Muslims than non-Muslims. During this period...

The Indian Air Force is offering the Bangladesh Biman Bahini (Bangladesh air force) the use of its facilities to modernise and maintain fighter aircraft and helicopters, a senior defence source told The Telegraph here. In reaching out to Dhaka with an offer to help upgrade its air fleet, New...

Al-Qaeda is seeking to de-stabilise the entire South Asia region and could trigger a new war between Pakistan and India, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told reporters on Wednesday. Groups under Al-Qaeda's "syndicate" in Afghanistan and Pakistan are trying "to destabilise not just...

People, I have read lot of news from Pakistan around NRO.:what:...but I am struggling to understand the impact it has on Pakistan as a country:blink:. Can anyone please explain.....:angel:

Here is a thought provoking article I just read....really makes you think.... Defining ‘strategic depth’ And how does it help us? We are engaged in the Great Game in Afghanistan, we are told, because ‘strategic depth’ is vital for Pakistan due to the fact that our country is very narrow at...