Our gallant martyrs in Tirah Valley
Friday, 17 May 2013 16:02
Sumera Khan
 “For me, Mustafa is everywhere, he never left us. Our 7-year-old daughter Rameen is proud of her father’s martyrdom,” says Sadia Mustafa, widow of Major Mustafa Sabir, who embraced martyrdom last week during clashes with militants in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency among other 23 military personnel. Rameen talks tirelessly about her father, and misses him badly, especially when she remembers how he would take her for ice cream.
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We are the bravest democracy
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:47
Murtaza Haider
 Pakistan may not be the world’s largest democracy, but is certainly the world’s bravest. Over 50 million voters braved heat, violence, and terrorism to cast their votes and wrote a new chapter in the history of democracy.
TTP Terror - No room for moderates
Friday, 10 May 2013 14:43
Ali K Chishti
 "We have always been MQM voters, but this time we have decided not to go out and vote because of security concerns," said Syed Ayaz, a businessman in Karachi. The situation in the city is tense after more than eight major terrorist attacks by the Taliban, who had threatened to target the MQM, the ANP and the PPP - parties who they say oppose them. The boldest of these attacks was on MQM's headquarters Nine Zero on May 4. Days before that, a PPP office was bombed in Hub, and an ANP candidate was killed along with his young son in Karachi.
Indian Airforce trainers fall short
Friday, 10 May 2013 12:06
Rohit Kumar
Notwithstanding the recent inclusion of the Pilatus basic trainer, flight training of Indian Air Force will continue to suffer as it is set to lose its Kiran intermediate jet trainer with no replacement in sight.
Rookie pilots in the Air Force have been trained on Kiran Mk 1/1A aircraft since 2009 after the grounding of HPT-32 basic trainer fleet. Before the switch, Kiran was used for stage-II training at the IAF academy, Dundigal. Now, IAF has a brand new basic trainer.
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US fails to convince S Korea with missile defense
Friday, 10 May 2013 12:03
Kim Eun-jung
SEOUL: The defense ministry on Thursday ruled out South Korea's participation in the American-led missile defense system, saying it will focus on developing its own program to defend itself from North Korea's missile threats.
Whether to join a U.S.-led missile defense system involving ground-based interceptors and the X-band radar has been a prickly issue in South Korea, as it could spur a regional arms race involving China and further contribute to mounting costs in the national missile program.
NATO to follow Soviet's Afghan retreat
Friday, 10 May 2013 11:16
jennifer andrew
 Russian and Western experts make their guesses as to what lies behind NATO’s keen interest in the Soviet experience in Afghanistan and what impact it may have on the Russia-NATO dialogue.
While NATO is preparing to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, Russian pundits and international observers try to account for the Organization’s recent attempts to take a closer look at the Soviet experience. Some experts believe that it may prevent NATO from making fatal diplomatic and military mistakes, yet others argue that it will be very challenging to establish fruitful collaboration between Russia and NATO.
US Drones breaking US bones
Friday, 10 May 2013 11:15
Lawrence Wilkerson
 Although it's far removed from the public conscience, we ought to pay more attention at just what drone use portends.
Akbar Ahmed's The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, should be required reading for American soldiers, citizens and, above all, every member of the Obama administration.
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