By Ahmed Khan The complexities of South Asia’s political and geostrategic environment drives scholars, experts and practitioners from within subcontinent and the West to share their scholarly views on the dynamics of its major component: the India-Pakistan relationship. A relook or revisit to their scholarly work in form of book, biographies and research papers gives us a broad canvas to draw a holistic pi ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani Armed Forces have launched full scale operation “Zarb-e-Azb” to eliminate terrorists and their sanctuaries from Waziristan Agency on 15 June, 2014. Till today Armed Forces have cleared over 40% area, destroyed communication centers, bases and heaps ammunition and explosives. The forces have also killed 232 insurgents which include Tajik and Uzbek. According to the credible sourc ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja BJP under Narendra Modi is ruling the roost in India for the third time. This time its victory was comprehensive. BJP traces its roots to Bharatiya Jana Sangh, established in 1951, as a political wing of RSS. In 1967, BJP gained substantial foothold in Hindi speaking regions of northern India. BJP firmly established itself under Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1980. In 1984, the BJP won only tw ...

By: Sohail Parwaz So much so is about the armies but there are incidents when the civilians volunteer themselves to be used as human shields. In November 2006, Palestinian women volunteered as human shields to allow the escape of Hamas gunmen from Israeli forces in Beit ul Hanuon in the Gaza Strip. The armed Palestinians had confined themselves in a mosque which was surrounded by Israeli troops and tanks. M ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2898" align="alignright" width="300"] North Waziristan[/caption] On June 15, this year, Pakistan’s armed forces started a full scale operation “Zarb-e-Azb” against terrorists in North Wazirastan Agency. In this regard, DG, ISPR, Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said: “On the directions of the Government, Armed forces of Pakistan have launched a comprehensive operation against ...

By: Sohail Parwaz “. ………. Particularly I thank our Muslim brethren of the tribal areas across the NWFP for their messages of good wishes and greetings, which have come in large numbers, and I take this opportunity to assure them that we shall, adjust and settle our affairs in a brotherly way. There is no desire on our part to interfere with their freedom. We shall be happy to meet them and enter into such a ...

By: Sohail Parwaz First premise: All Christians believe in God. Second premise: All Muslims believe in God. Conclusion: All Christians are Muslims. This is rather an extreme but certainly ideal example of abusing logic and drawing a biased conclusion from perfectly correct premises. People do make logical mistakes and the conclusion drawn from the premises given here is also the same type of muddle, but wit ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the modern era of technological development, the media have become a powerful institution which has changed the world into a global village. Technical prowess, dispersion effect, social prestige and influencing clout enable media to turn into reflecting mirror of society, reporting all events which take place in a social setting. Thus media renders a great service to the society by prov ...