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While Pakistan is restructuring its foreign policy that had been tailor made to suit American interests only, the US is striving to normalize Pak-US relations but there will be no more business as usual. Process of peace with Pakistani Taliban should be given a push to end the self-destructive war on terror. WHEN the US decided to invade Afghanistan and …

Taking full advantage of limitless freedom of action given by Gen Musharraf, CIA and FBI cultivated militant and criminal groups to fight Pak security forces. As many as 7000 undesirable CIA agents under different guises managed to slip in and they gave rise to drone attacks, suicide bombings and terrorist attacks. WAR on terror initiated by USA was a ruse …

   A group of political, diplomatic and military leaders from the Asia-Pacific region – representing an area with the largest number of nuclear weapons states – is launching a campaign to help abolish the world's most destructive weapons, beginning in their own backyard. The convenor of the group, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, said Monday, "The quest to eliminate …

ISLAMABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Thursday suspended command and chain system to counter any aggression on borders. Reliable sources said General Kayani suspended the command and chain system in order to enable the senior officers on the posts to take appropriate action if Pakistani forces come under attack.  The Chief of the Army Staff …

Pakistani protesters rally in the city of Lahore to condemn the NATO air strike on two army checkpoints in the country’s northwest that left 24 soldiers dead.(PHOTO ap)   The NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers went on for almost two hours and continued even after Pakistani commanders had pleaded with coalition forces to stop, the army claimed …