Pakistan & Kashmir

By VT Designed to hit low level planes launching missiles at long distances against soft/civilian targets…typically the terror attacks by Israel on Damascus qualify…missiles fired from over defenseless Lebanon… VT Damascus The Pakistani military is weighing China’s HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles and producing the “Dongfeng-909” missile under license. Although this missile has similar performance to the Russian S-300, it is judged to have a high accuracy to the target because it has a heat-seeking seeker and multi-angle detection device. Currently, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran is confirming information that these missiles are purchased from Pakistan and sent to Syria because it is difficult to acquire these Western-made missiles and the country’s missile d...

Regional factions are warring on cricket to get attention for their causes …by Sajjad Shaukat, VT Pakistan Using the pretext of security threat, New Zealand’s unilateral decision to cancel the cricket series on September 17, this year just hours before the start of the first One Day International (ODI) in Rawalpindi has surprised the Pakistanis. It hence gave a lethal blow to the campaign that is aimed at bringing back international cricket to the country. The abrupt decision by the Black Caps to suspend a much-anticipated tour has also fanned conspiracies. On the same day, a press release of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stated: “Pakistan Government made foolproof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand cricket of the same…the secu...

By VT   By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT In his book, ‘The Prince’, Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them, the use of terror to obtain their goals and foreign adventures to divert the attention of public from internal crises. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. Since Narendar Modi, the leader of the fanatic ruling party BJP, became Indian prime minister, he has been following the discarded tactics of Machiavelli in the modern era of renunciation of war and peaceful settlement of disputes. Under the Modi-led regime, persecution of religious minorities especially Muslims have been intensified in accordance with the ideology of Hindutva ((Hindu N...