By Ali Sukhanver Countless questions need serious pondering over the issues along the Durand line. What are the factors which never let Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two Islamic countries, come closer; why has the official relationship between these two Islamic countries never been very cordial and genial; what is the actual nature of conflict between these two neighbouring countries; whether this conflict ...

   By   Sajjad Shaukat Political philosophers of the past indicate that some immoral activities such as deceit, theft, falsehood and even murder are also the principles of politics. Particularly, Machiavelli advises the leaders to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. In his sense, a good leader should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. Morgenthau supports immoral act ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat  Pakistan has always been in the forefront to share the pains of Afghan people, making sincere efforts to resolve Afghan conundrum. Unfortunately, Afghan leaders, driven by overseas propaganda and foreign plots have shown signs of mistrust and skepticism towards Pakistan. In this regard, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, while ignoring the fact that Afghan Taliban are fighting for the libera ...

By Iftikhar Hussain Butt Al-Qaeda’s Arab militants and leaders were anxious for audio or video message of Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri amid leadership crisis in Middle East. But his new video has disappointed them as Dr Zawahiri only announced creation of Al-Qaeda’s new branch with the name “Qaedat Al-Jihad” for South Asia and he did not make direct reference to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and militants of Islamic State ( ...

By Sajjad Shaukat No doubt, favorite system of governance in the Western countries is democracy. By using their legitimate right of vote, people participate in political process, and elect their own representatives to govern them. Thus, they give mandate by authorizing the elected members to hold public offices and make legitimate decisions to run the affairs of state. And, the elected representatives remai ...

By Ali Sukhanver Words have ever been very important either they are in written form or in spoken format. This importance of words gave birth to a very useful and influential type of ‘industry’ known as media. The experts and the specialists having an immaculate command and skillful authority on spoken or the written words became an inevitable part of this industry through the trade of journalism. From the ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Undoubtedly, media is a powerful instrument to build perceptions and promote ideologies. Media houses like Geo and Jang Group, due to their area of influence, wealth and assets inland and abroad, have become a monster in Pakistan. By acting upon the anti-Pakistan propaganda for the sake of money, this Media Group follows its own peculiar agenda, and keeps its financial interests above the ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Although democracy has displayed its success in the west, yet, it has proved fruitless in Pakistan due to politicians who keep on changing their loyalties for their selfish gains. Past experience proves that our political parties have worked on undemocratic principles like hostility for the sake of hostility, formation of alliances and counter-alliances to win the elections. Much time is ...