POLITICAL DIALOGUE

Peshawar: Five NATO tankers caught fire as a result of blast in NATO tankers terminal in Khyber Agency.Khyber agency is a tribal area and NATO oil tankers use this area to enter Afghanistan via Torkham border.Pakistan parliament in a unanimous resolution recently demanded og the government to stop Supply to NATO forces via Pakistan if Drone attacks are not stopped

  LAHORE, May 30: The Jamaat e Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, has warned that  military operation in North Waziristan would trigger a major war in the region with the Muslims blood being shed on both sides. Expressing grave concern over the reports of military operation in North Waziristan in a statement here, he stressed upon the government and the armed forces to refrain from such an unwise operation at the US bidding as Washington wanted to spread the war flames to every nook and corner of Pakistan and pit the masses against their armed forces. He said the military high- ups and government ministers were repeatedly issuing statements that there should be no politicking on Karachi and Abbotabad incidents. He asked whether the patriotic people should keep silent if the civil rulers and armed forces accepted US slavery. If the sovereignty and independence of the country is lost, the expertise and capability of the navy, air force and army becomes a question mar...

Peshawar(Pakistan) Ex-chief of Pakistan largest Islamic party,Jamaat e Islami and ex-senator /Member of National Assembly of Pakistan has said that extremist tendencies is harming muslim ummah.Attacking country security forces and police is no service to Islam, rather it is damaging muslim ummah.This he said while addressing a religious seminary in Shergarh, Mardan as a chief guest.He advised students and religious leaders to come forward and play role for showing right path to muslims.Bomb blasts are no service to Islam.It is worth mentioning that JI isconsistently demanding of Pakistan government to dissassocite from so called war on teeror and reframe country foreign policy and decrease its dependence on USA.It also accuses US of trying to destabalise Pakistan and to pave way for attacking pakistan nuclear installations.Speaking on the occasion JI provincial head and member of Senate said that JI believes in peacefull struggle for islamisation of society and for this purpose it...

Lashkar Gah(Afghanistan): NATO air strike killed twele  kids and two women in Lashkar Gah in one of the worst case of civilian casualties by foreign forces in recent months.Meanwhile Afghan President have issued warning to US and NATO troops that their "their arbitrary and and unnecessary operations" were resulting in killing of innocent peoples almost every day. Afghan President issued a statement from Afghan Palace wherein he said that the incident in Helmand province in the south was a big mistake.Meanwhile International and Pakistan media reported that Karzai has issued last warning to US and NATO forces to avoid operations that kills civilians.

Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad organized a roundtable tilted “WTO: Status and the Way Ahead “, in collaboration with the Rawalpindi Chamber for Commerce and Industry at the chamber’s premises on April 28.   Fasih Uddin , former Chief Economist Government of Pakistan and Member, IPS NAC was the main speaker. Opening the discussion, Aman Ullah Khan, Chairman WTO Committee of the chamber presented a brief overview of the evolution of multilateral trading regime, introduction of WTO, its objectives and functions. He emphasized that as Pakistan was one of the founding members of GATT since September 1947, the predecessor of WTO; it meant that the country stood for multilateral system of free and fair trade from very beginning. The main speaker, Fasih Uddin , said that at WTO, the decisions were to be made by consensus – which was the major reason for difficulties faced in concluding the negotiations – as it was hard to arrive at a consensus among 153 members with varying ...

          Written by Khalid Rahman     Understanding the situation in Afghanistan and its implications on the Central Asian region requires a deep analysis of three important aspects: the security problem in Afghanistan from its genesis to the current dynamics, its spillover effect on the neighboring region, and options and choices available to the regional countries in general and Central Asian Republics in particular. Any conclusion drawn without giving due weight to any of these factors would be superficial and shortsighted. However, this presentation mainly focuses the situation in Afghanistan and the way forward and analyzes the Afghanistan problem in three broader categories: strategic aspect i.e. strategic significance of Afghanistan and its role in regional matrix; conceptual aspect i.e. objectives of the invasion of Afghanistan and the debate of terrorism; and political aspect i.e. the current situation in Afghanistan and d...

        Written by Nadeem Farhat Geelani      Abstract [Although opinions, beliefs and perceptions about capital punishment vary widely across cultures, societies and countries, the idea of its abolition is patronized by the United Nations and has been endorsed by more than two-thirds of the countries of the world. Since the establishment of the Pakistan People's Party-led government in Pakistan in 2008, the call for abolition or at least commutation of the death sentence has arisen time and again in the parliament and in segments of the national press. The abolition movement is a product of historical and social developments peculiar to the Western part of the world. Current world opinion, as expressed in international surveys as well as at international forums, does not permit the viewing of abolition as an internationally accepted human right. Muslim states and peoples, in particular, resist the idea on an ideological basis. Whil...