By Asif Haroon Raja Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of Britain in British India was instrumental in sowing the seeds of Kashmir dispute and leaving this as a festering wound and an unfinished agenda of Partition, which has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations for nearly seven decades and made South Asia a nuclear flashpoint. But for the treacherous grant of Muslim heavy Gurdaspur to India, the latter had no ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past wars, the arena of war has changed. In the ongoing era, besides subversive tactics, non-lethal weapons like propaganda can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target country. In this regard, overtly, US high officials state that they seek stability in Pakistan, but covertly, they continue to destabilize this lonely ‘nuclearised’ country in the Islamic World. With ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan was pushed into the inferno of war on terror by the imperialist USA after 9/11 with ill-intentions. While roots of terrorism were identified in Afghanistan, the war was surreptitiously diverted into FATA, and then into other parts of Pakistan. All this time debate kept raging among Pakistanis whether it was US war or our war. Irrespective of this debate, the fact is that law enf ...

By Faheem Belharvi Bajrang Dal, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) converted at least 57 Muslim families (200 people) into Hindus at a “Purkhon ki Ghar vapsi” coming home of the ancestors ceremony held at Agra, Uttar Pardesh. It is not a first event of its kind. Previously, in early 2014, Christians were forcefully converted to Hinduism which created unrest among Christian Clergy. BJP is t ...

                                      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی اتنے غیر موثر‘ بے بس‘ کمزور‘ عاجز ولاچار حکمران چاہے اُن کی حکمرانی بادشاہت کی ہو‘ جمہوری ہو یا ڈکٹیٹر شپ کی ہو‘ اُن کا طرزِ حکمرانی جیسا تیسا ہی ہو،لیکن جتنے ڈھیلے ڈھالے اور ہمیشہ اپنے ہاتھ ملتے حکمران ہمیں میسر آئے ہیں یا ملتے رہے ہیں شائد ہی تاریخ ِ عالم میں کہیں آپ نے اِن جیسوں کا تذکرہ پڑھا ہوگا؟ اتفاقاً اگرکہیں کسی تاریخ کے صفحات پر ہمیں ایسے حک ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League (AL)  Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by exploiting her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests, especially against Pakistan. Two persons have been killed in Bangladesh in the deadly clashes erupted in the country on January 5, t ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...