By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai There is something very high schoolish and unsophisticated about the barbs and threats being traded between Pakistan and India, where fully grown men given the responsibility to manage nations shout at one another like two boys in a park squabbling over some Barbie Doll standing on the sidelines, who invariably has a look of disgust on her face. Think Kashmir. Yes, there have been two ...

 نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں سیاسی جماعتوں کی ایک فصل ہے جو اُگی ہوئی ہے اور کوئی نہ کوئی نئی پارٹی اُگ کر اس فصل کی اٹھان میں نیا اضافہ کر دیتی ہے لیکن ہوتا کچھ نہیں ہے نہ عوام اور خواص کے درمیان خلیج پاٹی جاتی ہے نہ مسائل حل کیے جاتے ہیں ، نہ ملکی ترقی کے لیے کام کیا جاتا ہے، نہ قومی یکجہتی ضروری سمجھی جاتی ہے اورنہ مذہبی رواداری پیدا کرنے کی کوشش کی جاتی ہے یعنی جن مسائل اور بنیادوں پر سیاست ہونی چاہیے وہ کہیں ...

By Afshain Afzal All hopes for the polio free world have vanished like water bubbles exposed to sun. The series of detection of new polio type virus cases in United States of America, Canada and some of the European countries has put a question mark on the effectiveness of the polio vaccines and credibility of the executors of immunization campaign,  There are many who have discredited organizations like Ro ...

(Presentation given by Brig retired Asif Haroon Raja at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on November 29, 2014, chaired by Air Chief Marshal retired Kaleem Sadat, Gen retired Mirza Aslam Beg as chief guest and Lt Gen Abu Saeeduz Zafar in attendance). I shall be dwelling upon the newly emerged threat of Da’esh, which is also known as Islamic State of Iraq & Sham (ISIS), which later morphed into Islamic State (IS), ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Promoting Hindu chauvinism on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans, Prime Minister of India and leader of the fundamentalist party BJP, Narendra Modi had won a landslide victory in the elections 2014. Since BJP came to power, Prime Minister Modi has been implementing its party’s agenda by accelerating false propaganda against Pakistan, its Armed Forces and especially against ...

By Ali Sukhanver In a move intended to mend shattering and tattering ties with the Unites States, the newly-elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and US Ambassador James Cunningham, signed the Bilateral Security Agreement known as ‘BSA’ this year on 30th September at the presidential palace in Kabul. The deal allows the US to leave a small contingent of troops in the country beyond this year, when a NATO-le ...

                                        By Sajjad Shaukat On November 23, this year, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told the Indian media that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will have a meeting on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, being held in Kathmandu on November 26-27. He elab ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Six days visit of Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif to the United States has proved very successful and is considered a landmark in Pak-US relations. In his interaction, with the US top military and civil officials, Pakistan’s army chief straightforwardly pointed out co-relationship of regional problems including Pakistan’s sacrifices during war against terrorism, succ ...