By Ishaal Zehra The US military has offered a series of shifting explanations for the bombing raid, from initially talking about “collateral damage” to now admitting, as Obama did in his call to MSF chef Joanne Liu that the strike was a mistake. The US President Barack Obama has called the president of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 7th to apologize for the bombing of an MSF hospital in northern ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir World War 2 ended with a horrible bang; Nagasaki and Hiroshima were wiped out of existence with nuclear bombs and the devastation was of catastrophic proportions likes of which, the world had never seen before and one earnestly wishes never does again. Millions of people were simply incinerated to charcoal, buildings evaporated and whole blocks leveled like houses of sand before a ste ...

LAHORE (Staff Report) – The process of vote counting led peacefully Lahore’s NA-122 and PP-147 after the daylong polling process ended at 5:00 pm on Sunday. Related: Maryam Nawaz chants “DEKHO DEKHO KON AAYA” as PML-N candidate takes lead in NA-122 by-polls. According to initial results PML-N candidate Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has won ed 73428 votes while PTI candidate Abdul Aleem Khan got 669265 votes in total 28 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Global war on terror was launched by the US under George Bush and its western allies to make the world peaceful but made a mess of everything. Today the world has become a dangerous place to live since no corner of the world is safe from terrorism. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East (ME) as a whole and parts of North Africa have suffered the most and are still in the vortex of chaos. Ira ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they started accusing Pak Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. The high officials and media of their countries not only blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, but also presumed th ...

by Hannah Haegland @hhaegeland n 2006, a peace accord ended a civil war and Nepal began a new era as a secular, democratic republic. After eight years of political negotiation, over two weeks ago, Nepal announced its new constitution. It is a landmark document, a boon for South Asian democracy and pluralism, with provisions aimed at protecting minorities, including LGBT and Dalit communities. Like the initi ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain, and a man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked, “When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?” Perhaps the simple answer to that is that it will occur when power is distributed among men in such a way that it cannot be abused ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_13682" align="alignright" width="455"] New Delhi: Ex-servicemen during the 'Sainik Ekta' rally to press for their demands regarding 'one rank, one pension' scheme at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. [/caption] Irrespective of country, pensioners and veterans are part of that community who use to scarify their past for ours today and tomorrow. From the outset ...