By Rida Zaheer Lahore: At least 50 innocent people, including two Rangers personnel and children, were killed in a suicide blast at Wagah border in Lahore on Sunday. According to Dr. Iftikhar Medical Superintendent of Ghurki Hospital    more than 100 people brought in hospital. Out of these 48 have been brought dead and remaining were severely injured.  The bodies were severely damaged since suicidal used b ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat With the passage of more than 70 days, the prevailing political turmoil in Pakistan has deepened, as protesting groups of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) by Dr. Tahirul Qadri have continued AZADI (Freedom) and INQILAB (Revolution) marches, observing sit-ins at capital city of Islamabad. Although Tahirul Qadri has ended his sit-in at Islama ...

Indo-Pak relations are once again in doldrums. The simmering tensions along Line of Control (LoC) have put the entire Indo-Pak peace process on a perilous road. After a decade of being out of power, once again the BJP hardliners are back in business in India, playing a dirty politics with their neighbour—Pakistan—to attain domestic political mileage. Apprehensive statements are made by Mr. Modi’s subordinat ...

By Sajjad Shaukat People belonging to various segments of society including political parties and other important dignitaries came out on the streets of London in UK on October 26, this year, and participated in the Kashmir Million March to express solidarity with the citizens of Indian-held Kashmir in their decades-long struggle for the right of self-determination. It started from the Trafalgar Square and ...

By Ali Sukhanver Are we trying to disfigure the actual form and shape of the message of Islam; this question really becomes agonizingly painful to me whenever I try to go deep into Allama Iqbal’s concept of the Muslim Community; and this question compels me ponder over the other side of the picture. Allama Iqbal was of the opinion that the Muslims living all over the world belong to one community, they obey ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary general, World Kashmir Awareness Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been / To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed....  --lyrics by Jimmy Page from the song Kashmir, performed by Led Zeppel ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat                           27th of October is celebrated every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the people of Jammu and Kashmir as the Black Day, because, in gross violation to law and ‘Partition Plan of the Indian Sub-continent’, India forcibly landed its military in princely State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on 27 October 1947. On July 19, 1947, m ...

By Muhammad Daim Fazil Sick of formula films—lacking subject behind script—expecting screenplay connection with locations and right puffing of music at right time, don’t waste time, book a seat in cinema and watch Operation 021, the expectations will be met at their best as the first ever Pakistani spy film creating history since it hit the big screens having all this stuff packed in. The initial days busin ...