Abstract of the Address of Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed
ahmed sabirAs Chief Guest and President of the 1st Session on FMCT Problems and Prospects Interaction Report Mushahid Hussain Syed in his opening remarks said that the issue of FMCT is…
Seminar – FMCT Problems & Prospects
Fissile Material Cut off Treaty Discriminatory and Pakistan specific to limit Pakistan's Security. (Seminar conducted on 3rd April, 2012 at Marriot Islamabad, by the Rabita Forum international) Nusrat Mirza Summary Introduction…
Balochistan and unsolved riddle of missing persons
Afzal Baloch It is astounding that the government is absolutely unmoved on the issue of missing persons. One can only sympathies with the traumatized relatives and venerate the efforts of…
Terror card and the Pak-US trust deficit
Momin Iftikhar Ever since the occurrence of 9/11 in 2001, Indians have been quick to exploit the terror card in turning the screw on Pakistan; particularly in equating the freedom…
Say ‘No’ to It
General Mirza Aslam Beg Former chief of army staff friendsfoundation@live.co.uk It is indeed very difficult to say 'No' to temptation, because the truth is what the famous American Comedian, Bob…
NATO Summit Why US, allies don’t just call it quits in Afghanistan
Howard La Franchi Al Qaeda, oil, and Pakistan, a trifecta of troublesome issues, make the US withdrawal from Afghanistan far more complicated than it was in Iraq. Why can't the…
FMCT: Scope, and Country prospects
Dr. Maria Sultan FMCT / FMT: the context December 1993, the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus resolution 48/75 “non-discriminatory, multilateral, and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning…
Iran worries Arabs but they don’t want war
Wadah Khanfar There is no Arab appetite for the chaos caused by an Israeli or western attack on Iran, despite fears over its expansionism. The image of Iran in the…
America is cooking something?
Non-acceptance of the demands of Pakistan by America for (1) apology on Salala attack (2) To stop drone strikes and (3) payment of US dollars 5000 per container, while they…
NATO’s shame in Libya
Libya was supposed to be different. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan had been learned, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy insisted last year. This would be a real humanitarian intervention.…