The list of universal truths should be expanded to include the fact of Afghanistan’s invincibility. Afghanistan has maintained its reputation as the ‘graveyard of the empires’. The question is, before the US invasion of Afghanistan, did the US Military command really think they can invade, occupy and control Afghanistan? The... » read this article

February 22, 2010, Axis of Logic -As recently as in August 2007, USAF lost track of six Advanced Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These missiles were loaded onto wing launch pod of a B-52 H Bomber at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, were improperly... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Most readers are now aware of the new front that President Obama has opened in Pakistan for the U.S. war in Asia. Losing the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has picked Pakistan as what they see as a softer target in the region. That decision may be another critical... » read this article

Editor's Note: The PKKH are on the front lines of the media war in Pakistan as the country heats up under the creeping occupation by the U.S. regular military and hired mercenaries. Our columnist, Talha Mujaddidi is one of the leaders in the PKKH and these reports come from on-the-ground... » read this article

With the American declaration of an exit from Afghanistan, Beijing and Islamabad are upbeat. This leaves India in the lurch as it is ill prepared to face the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists and the Chinese Communists argues Bharat Verma. The creeping invasion by authoritarian regimes will engulf Asia by 2020 as... » read this article

The US must address Pakistan’s security concerns to leave behind a stable AfPak region January 16, Axis of Logic - Despite some ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ related to US withdrawal expressed by some US officials following President Obama’s speech laying out his new policy on Afghanistan, there is absolutely no doubt... » read this article

"This is the moral state of the American media: the murder of poverty-stricken children by missiles or bombs might, after all, be no more than an 'honest mistake'.” 14 January 2010 American television news becomes more and more unwatchable, especially in its reports on the expanding wars in the Middle... » read this article

14 January 2010 The Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) report published on January 10 makes clear that the carnage from the fighting between the Pakistani military and anti-government Islamist and tribal militants more than matches that taking place in neighbouring US-occupied Afghanistan. In 2009, the low-level civil war in... » read this article

It was a sad day for all people of good will on October 9th 2009 when the Nobel Committee announced the award the Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. At the ceremony Obama was obliged to defend his decision to authorize the sending of a further 30,000 US troops... » read this article

January 2, 2009. Axis of Logic - When India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974, culminating a program launched as far back as 1951, Western powers only reacted with customary “show of concern”. But on the other hand, Pakistan’s nuclear program, initiated in response to the Indian acquisition of... » read this article

28 December 2009 Missiles from U.S. Predator drones struck a village in Pakistan over the weekend, killing at least 13 people. The attack coincided with reports of intensified operations by US Special Forces killing squads on the Afghanistan side of the border. Amounting to targeted assassinations, these forms of warfare... » read this article

DID BENAZIR DIE FOR DEMOCRACY? Or is she being exalted in death to sanitize her successors who have leapfrogged into power? South Asians are sentimental people. Their romanticism and devotion to revered historical icons and deities over several thousand years has shaped their political psyche of nurturing personality cults. To... » read this article

A wave of public concern swept through Pakistan over the news of clandestine activities of the US contractor DynCorp International that has been reportedly engaged by the Pentagon to provide security for US diplomatic personnel. Until some ugly episodes occurred in Islamabad and Peshawar where DynCorp operatives, displaying their weapons... » read this article

(Please note the informative glossary of terms and names at the bottom of the page which helps to elucidate Talha's report and to provide an understanding of Pakistan as the nation struggles under the glare of Obama's "war on terror". -eds.) In 2007, under US pressure Pakistani President General Musharraf, made... » read this article

12 December 2009 Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration. Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents,... » read this article

9 December 2009 One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his escalation of the war in Afghanistan as the prelude to an early withdrawal of US troops. It has since become increasingly apparent that the speech was nothing more than a calculated exercise... » read this article

December 7, 2009 Interview Azhar Masood Islamabad—A beaming Lt Gen (Retd) Hamid Gul proudly sitting in his drawing room with a well decorated artifact of a small piece of Berlin Wall, was well prepared to give an interview Pakistan Observer on Indian Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor’s latest... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is an interesting profile of the man who leads the Taliban against the United States. "Elusive but a commander par excellence", as Pakistan's General Hamid Gul remembers him, "Mullah Omar has wrapped the mightiest country in the world around his little finger."  - Editors WHERE IS MULLAH... » read this article

When the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Obama during his visit to the US this week, the two leaders will discuss the framework for strategic dialogue between the two countries. Singh seeks to solidify a relationship, transformed under the Bush administration from distant friendship to that of a... » read this article

Pakistanis make their anger with the American policies very clear After three days of America-bashing that Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, endured during her recent visit she must have carried back interesting baggage - some realistic and troubling assessments about how Pakistanis look upon the war on terror that America... » read this article