Monthly Archives: March 2016
Turkey’s Syrian calculation
By Patrick Cockburn A month before Turkey shot down a Russian bomber which it accused of entering its airspace, Russian military intelligence had warned President Vladimir Putin that this was the Turkish plan. Diplomats familiar with the events say that
A new Palestinian leader for all?
By Daoud Kuttab It is not clear what the chief of Palestinian intelligence, Majid Faraj, had in mind when he gave an interview to the United States-based website Defence News. If the aim was to improve his chances of succeeding
What stands in CPEC’s way?
By Muhammad Daim Fazil When Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled the blueprint for the enormous $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project last year, Pakistan was understandably pleased. The Pakistani government considers the project a game changer for its fragile
What US candidates mean for the ME
By Kerry Boyd Anderson The United States presidential elections have entered a new phase, as Republicans and Democrats begin choosing who will be their candidate. After the February 1 Iowa caucus, there are two Democrats left former secretary of state
How America was lost
By Paul Krugman Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn’t have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In today’s America, with
Making Pakistan food secure
By : Professor Dr. Shahida Wizarat It is quite ironic that Pakistan basically an agricultural country producing more than one fifth of its output from agriculture and a little less than half of its population working in agriculture should be
America’s Syrian shame
By Roger Cohen The Putin policy in Syria is clear enough as the encirclement of rebel-held Aleppo proceeds and tens of thousands more Syrians flee toward the Turkish border. It is to entrench the brutal government of Bashar al-Assad by
Gen. Raheel cancels prime-land allotted to Kiyani, Gen. Rashid
Special Report by J. Choudhry, Editor PCNN & Corporate Ambassador Army’s Selection & Recruitment Center in Lahore near Fortress Stadium was shifted to Walton Road, Lahore and Gen. Kiyani & Rashid Mahmood were allotted big plots in the old center,
Our full spectrum nuclear deterrence regime
By: General Mirza Aslam Beg Pakistan decided to correct the ‘balance of terror’, disturbed by India, by exploding the atomic device in 1994. It required a visionary leader like Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and a brilliant scientist, Dr. Abdul
The US government is the most complete criminal organization in human history
By Paul Craig Roberts January 10, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts