Monday, February 8th, 2016
Sardar Mehtab Khan steps down as KP governor
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan resigned from the post of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) governor on Monday. A senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and a source in the Prime Minister House confirmed that Abbasi’s resignation had been accepted by the prime minister, and forwarded to the president for approval. PML-N sources told that Sardar Mehtab Khan stepped down to pursue a role in parliamentary politics. Sardar Mehtab Khan Abbasi took oath as the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 14, 2014. Affiliated with PML-N, Sardar Mehtab had remained chief ministerRead More
3 soldiers killed in suicide attack on Afghan army bus
MAZAR SHARIF: A Taliban suicide bomber threw himself against a bus carrying Afghan soldiers in the north of the country Monday and killed three of them, officials said. The incident in Balkh province comes as the militant group steps up attacks across the country in the fifteenth year of its insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul. The Afghan defence ministry said three soldiers died and eight were wounded in the blast, which occurred in a relatively stable region. A spokesman for the provincial governor, Munir Ahmad Farhad, said theRead More
Terrorism in Pakistan, a gift of proxy wars: myth and reality
By Adnan Yousaf It is believed that terrorism in Pakistan dates back to the cold war era when Pakistan chose to be an ally of western bloc against the Soviet bloc which were representing two completely different philosophies concerning class relations, individualism, governance, and the nature of power. This ideological confrontation directly shaped and characterized the forms that terrorism would take during the Cold War. Before tracing out the roots of terrorism in Pakistan in the cold war era, it would be worthwhile to briefly review the macro dynamics ofRead More