By Sajjad Shaukat Basically, prosperity of a Third World country depends upon foreign investment which needs political stability in that country in the modern era of economic development. On the other side, political instability which creates uncertainty in a less developed country, is not conducive for external businessmen. In these terms, the case of Bangladesh is of special consideration, where seve ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan During his visit to India in 2010, US President Barrack Obama signed multiple agreements with New Delhi in various fields such as $10 billion in trade deals and creation of more than 50,000 US jobs besides the measures, America would take regarding removal of Indian space and defence companies from a restricted “entities list”, and supported Indian demand for a permanent seat in the U ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan Pakistan is facing a dilemma. If the government does not take stern action against militants, or it procrastinates on initiating a dialogue due to the delaying tactics of the TTP, the latter gets the breathing space and time to reorganize. After being decimated in Swat and Malakand and elsewhere, Pakistani Taliban reorganized and came back with full force. On the other hand, the US fe ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan THE debate is raging in the media after the recent drone attack that killed head of the TTP Hakimullah Mehsud, and impression is being conveyed by some politicos and analysts that the TTP was ready for holding talks with the government. But this is not true. Whether Hakimullah Mehsud was evil incarnate or someone willing to accept the writ of the state is not the point here. It is imp ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan “I am going to address a crowd of brainless dummies”, the Indian Union Minister Mr. Shashi Throor might have been thinking when he was getting his video-message recorded for the Young Indo-Pak Entrepreneurs Conference to be held at Jinnah Auditorium Islamabad on 29th October this year. The audience included 22 Indian delegates and officials of the Indian High Commission, including env ...

Posted byTariq Rizwan Going by the statement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a peace process and dialogue between Government of Pakistan and the TTP was imminent, which was sabotaged by the drone attack that killed its Supremo Hakimullah Mehsud. His statement was contentious, and his detractors disbelieved him. Since the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has elected a hardliner Taliban leader Mu ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan As the time approaches for the upcoming session of Conference on Disarmament (CD), the nuclear comedy circus is back in business. Having failed to stick the nasty narratives about security of Pakistani nukes and their falling into the hands of terrorists, this time an interesting fictional twist has been added regarding interstate transfer of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. To add colours ...

ایس اکبر حال ہی میں مذہبی رہنما مولانا سمیع الحق جنہیں طالبان میں خاصی مقبولیت حاصل ہے نے انسدادِ  پولیو کے ضمن میں ایک فتویٰ جاری کیا ہے۔ اس فتویٰ میں کہا گیا ہے کہ پولیو کے خاتمے کے لیے بچوں کو پولیو کے قطرے پلانا بالکل اسلام کے عین مطابق ہے۔ شریعت کے مطابق بچوں کو پولیو جیسی مہلک بیماری سے بچانے کے لیے ویکسین کا استعمال شرعی اعتبار سے بالکل درست ہے۔ اس فتویٰ میں والدین کو یہ پیغام دیا گیا ہے کہ وہ بلاخوف ...