The dodgy Trump dossier reminds me of the row over Saddam WMDs
ahmed sabirBy Patrick Cockburn I talked to Iraqi defectors in the 1990s who claimed to have plenty of information about WMDs and gossip about Hussein's family affairs. It did not take…
The ex-CIA agent who interrogated Saddam
By Adam Eley & Katie Alston When former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, the CIA required a specialist who could identify and interrogate him for information.…
Moscow moves into the Afghanistan vacuum
By Ahmed Rashid After the Soviet Union was defeated by the Afghan mujahideen and its 10-year occupation ended in a humiliating retreat by the Red Army in 1989, Russia pulled…
World powers jostle in Afghanistan’s new ‘Great Game’
By Dawood Azami Afghanistan's strategic landscape is changing as regional powers forge links with the Taliban and vie to outdo each other in what's being seen as a new "Great…
Kashmiri’s have lost their fear of India
By Jawed Naqvi AS India turns its focus to a clutch of make-or-break state polls starting next month and while the world lives in suspense over the arriving Trump presidency…
Quetta, Abbottabad, Pakistan
By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Pakistan's population has probably crossed 200 million as we enter 2017. This year the country will complete 70 years of existence. By the time it reaches…
Unemployment in Pakistan
By Tayyaba Tehseen The hardest work in the world is being out of work. The foremost problem world is facing today is unemployment. The ratio of unemployment is increasing day…
The Russia Pakistan equation
By Sabena Siddiqi A remarkable geopolitical shift has taken place in this part of the world as the traditional pattern of friends and adversaries is broken. India and Pakistan have…
Indian atrocities in Kashmir a threat to regional peace
Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria has said that Pakistan is ready to hold a dialogue with India to resolve outstanding issues, but Indian atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir are a…
BRIEF – EXERCISE AMAN-17
AMAN-17: Pakidtan Navy to organise multinational exercise of 30 world Navies INTRODUCTION Pakistan Navy has been interacting with regional and extra-regional navies through joint bilateral and multilateral exercises. Exercise AMAN…