From the 70s to date Pakistan has often been on the centre stage in the global power struggle and its role has always benefited the USA immensely. One such role was played when Pakistan brought about President Richard M Nixon’s visit to China in Feb 1972. Nixon’s visit to China helped USA contain USSR in

Pakistan and India will never go to war again because if they do both will become history. The notion expressed by some Indian and international think tanks claiming that, while India will not be totally destroyed in any nuclear war, Pakistan will be completely annihilated is a fallacy. Let it be said in unambiguous terms

The Mumbai attack must be conclusively investigated so that it does not go into history surrounded by mystery. Since India has hurled unsubstantiated allegations against Pakistan, Mumbai must be jointly investigated. Pakistan and India can trigger the dynamics of mutual destruction and perish simultaneously. India will perish too if Pakistan is harmed in any manner

On Nov 26, an enigma began unfolding in Mumbai. It emerged that 12 gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles ransacked Mumbai for three days killing 188 people (unverified), including a few Israelis and other westerners. Security forces suffered 14 casualties. One terrorist, Kasab, who appeared to have been focused by the cameras, was arrested while

The world’s sanity and equilibrium should be restored through an equitable new world order. Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the world we hope will become terror-free. Impoverished Pakistan and India are militarily nuclear powers and maintain two of the world’s five largest standing armed forces. They have fought three wars over the last

[ca_audio url=”https://www.sharifpost.com/Audio/NPR/2008_12_12_All_Things_Considered.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”] India and the U.S. are pointing to Pakistan in assigning blame for last month’s attacks in Mumbai. The Indian government says the 10 suspected attackers came from Pakistan and had support from militant groups based there. Over the past week, Islamabad has taken steps to satisfy demands for action. The

I recently read an article justifying Asfandyar Wali’s departure from Pakistan to the UK written by Gulmina Bilal of the ANP, dated Oct 27. That prompted me to write this piece to highlight Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s courage. On Ms Bilal’s article I shall only say that if Asfandyar, who has been a great friend

NOTE: The following media is in the Urdu language and NOT in English. Masood Sharif Khan Khattak on the Geo TV show, Jawab Deh usually feared by all public figures. This is a tell all interview that showcases intelligence, lack of accountability, the military, politics and the supreme court in a brave new way. [FLOWPLAYER=https://www.sharifpost.com/Video/2008_10_12_Geo_TV_Jawab_Deh.flv,425,344]

By the evening of 9/11 President Bush had begun to make his initial outbursts about being at war, without having ascertained who the enemy was, and that this was a “crusade.” Although he almost immediately retracted the word, his inner thinking had been revealed. The American response to 9/11 was not well thought out. Apparently,

The only part of our international borders that is relatively peaceful is the one with Iran, because hostile intelligence agencies cannot foment trouble from Iran as it is being done from across our borders with Afghanistan. The border with India is also militarily peaceful and there is no foreseeable threat of a conventional war because