Tag: NATO attack
Easing tensions?
Cooperation is the only way forward
With the memo commission rejecting the plea to record the statement of Mansoor Ijaz outside Pakistan and Ijaz refusing...
Respect our sovereignty
This is with reference to a news item that appeared in your esteemed paper (24 Jan) saying that Pakistan army has rejected the enquiry...
Army rejects US enquiry report as ‘factually incorrect’
Pakistan Army rejected on Monday the findings of a US probe into the NATO air strikes on border posts in Mohmand Agency in November...
No decision to restore NATO supplies: FO
Pakistan's Foreign Office said that no decision has been taken to restore supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistan closed supply for foreign forces in...
No grandstanding, please
Time for pragmatism
Pak-US relations are too important an issue to be exploited for playing to the gallery. There is no doubt that the Nato...
Pakistan firm on demand for public US apology over Salala attack
With the army likely to unveil its detailed response to US/NATO inquiry report into the Salala checkpost attack today (Monday), Pakistan has decided to...
DCC leaves NATO attack response to parliament
The Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) on Saturday took no decision on resumption of NATO supplies, deciding in principle that parliament would take...
Civil-military tensions
Ignoring the external context for our internal turmoil
In the last few days, a number of scenarios are being discussed in the media that could...
Pak-US relations
Ending the impasse benefits the both
It is in the best interest of both the US and Pakistan to restore their relations which hit the...
Army rejects findings of Pentagon on Salala post attack
Pakistan Army rejected Pentagon probe that concluded that both Pakistan and the U.S. shared blame for a U.S.-led coalition attack on Salala post that...
Obama asked to apologize for killing Pakistani soldiers
A renowned American researcher, writer and anti-terror expert has advised President Barrack Obama to apologise for the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in the...
Army wants Zardari out but no coup
The Pakistan Army is fed up with President Asif Ali Zardari and wants him out of office, but through legal means and without a...
NATO attack probe: US forces acted in “self-defence”
An American investigator of the last month NATO attack on Pakistani border posts which killed 24 soldiers has found that the US forces ‘acted...
Not without an apology
How to bring relations back on track?
In the 10-year US-led ‘war on terror’ there has been repeated criticism in Pakistan about its objectives and...
To our super-patriots
Discretion is the better part of valour
Thank goodness the nationwide frenzy stirred by our super-patriotic but lazy anchors, members of establishment and others on...
Coping with the hype
On Pak-US relations
While the proposals formulated at the ambassadors’ conference have yet to be taken to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and then...
Security? What security?
Clinging to fallen idols…
What is the basis of our tug-of-war with the US? The question of national security. This question is one of sensitivity...