By Sohail Parwaz Today is ‘Youm-e-Shuohda’ (Martyrs’ Day). It should have been a day to be treasured, honoured and feted by the whole nation but regrettably it has generally been restricted to the cantonments, military graveyards and to those hundreds of sacred houses to whom these daring sons of the soil belonged.  I often say that one forgets everyday talk but decent and austere words spoken can never be ...

Asif Haroon Raja As explained in my earlier article titled ‘World Wars and Cold War’, during the Cold War, proxy wars were common because the two super powers didn’t dare to fight each other directly due to nuclear deterrence. The US led west demonized USSR and scared the world to keep away from the monster of communism. The US projected itself as the champion of democracy and human rights and guardian of f ...

By Tariq Rizwan GEO is a popular channel and seen across the country. It is providing employment to thousands of Pakistanis but its characterless owner Mir Shakil ur Rehman is bent upon closing the channel to deprive these employees of their bread and butter. The game started when a senior anchor person of ARY Channel Mr Mubashir Lucman has recently revealed that he has received life threat from MSR, five m ...

By Ishaal Zehra Quite an irresponsible type of document was drafted by the Asian Human Rights Commission as an Appeal letter against the Pakistan military establishment, more precisely ISI, after the attack on Hamid Mir. Accusing the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) for issuance of a show cause notice to Geo Television Channel to be followed, subsequently, by cancellation of its licens ...

By      Sohail Parwaz  This is the last dispatch that Captain Khalid Iftikhar Shaheed made minutes before he left for a raid to embraced shahadat. Question may come to one’s mind that who is Captain Khalid Iftikhar? Honestly speaking, every officer and jawan of the armed forces is Captain Khalid Iftikhar, may he be from infantry, armour, artillery, SSG or any other arm or service. At his age when his other ...

BY PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER At last the dreams came true; the dream of ISI bashing and the dream of dragging the Pakistan Army into a dirty blame game has since long been glimmering the eyes of the international conspirators and ultimately they all got a chance of materializing their dreams. Just six bullets wound up the whole story; may God be kind and merciful on Hamid Mir and may he return to a normal lif ...

Asif Haroon Raja End of Bi-Polar World. As explained in my earlier article titled ‘World Wars and Cold War’,during the Cold War, proxy wars were common because the two super powers didn’t dare to fight each other directly due to nuclear deterrence. The US led west demonized USSR and scared the world to keep away from the monster of communism. The US projected itself as the champion of democracy and human ri ...

  سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی پاکستانی فو ج پر غیر ملکی مصنفوں میں ’اسٹیون پی کوہن ‘کی کتاب ’پاکستان آرمی، تاریخ وتنظیم ‘ نہایت معمولی سے تحفظات سے قابل نظر دستاویز قرار دی جاسکتی ہے، اپنے پیش لفظ میں مصنف نے تسلیم کیا کہ ’یہ کتاب لکھنے میں تین مقاصد میرے پیشِ نظر رہے، اوّلین پاکستان کی فوج بالخصوص آرمی اور آرمی کے اندر افسر کور کا تذکرہ کرنا ہے‘ پاکستان آرمی افسر کور ناصرف دفاعی پالیسی میں مرکزی کردار ادا کرتی ہے ب ...