By Sajjad Shaukat As a result of the general elections 2013, the government led by the nationalist leader Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was established in Balochistan, while on December 7, 2013; local bodies elections were largely held in a peaceful manner in the province. However, these elections proved that majority of the Baloch are loyal to the federation, and do not favour separati ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Some of the reasons that have given rise to religious extremism in Pakistan are as follows:- Early demise of Quaid-e-Azam resulted in leadership crisis, which persists to this day. Uneven development of provinces and growth of regionalism gave rise to fissiparous tendencies and strengthened centrifugal forces in smaller provinces. Insensitivity and callous attitude of the elites towards ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Every country has an unambiguous foreign policy, particularly towards its neighbouring countries in the modern era of renunciation of war, economic development and peaceful settlement of disputes. When it comes to India, New Delhi has openly been acting upon a contradictory policy which shows its faulty approach towards Pakistan. In the recent past, tension arose between Pakistan and Ind ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat After accepting the demands of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the present government has decided to release some prisoners of the militant outfit in exchange of those Individuals who were kidnapped by the Taliban. But as part of its double game, the TTP has been employing shrewd tactics in order to distort the image of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies and the security forces throug ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Authenticity of 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. It has so far not been established whether 9/11 episode was real or engineered and whether Osama bin Laden (OBL) was behind it. Why Terrorism Confined to Muslims Only? George W. Bush led neo-cons most immoral act after 9/11 was to attribute terrorism to Muslims only. Global war on terrorism was hence confined to Muslim world only while the non-Musl ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Unlike late Hakimullah Mehsud who disfavored talks, his deputy Waliur Rahman favored dialogue and had convinced sizeable number of TTP Shura members to make an offer of dialogue to the government.  His group suggested Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Munawar Hassan, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan to act as guarantors to preclude possibility of backtracking from the agreement. The offer was not taken ...

Shared By Shaukat Qadir An Irish daughter had not been home for over three years . ... Upon her return , her father yelled at her , "Where have ye been all this time ? Why did ye not write to us ? Not even a line . Why didn't ye call ? Can ye not understand what ye put yer old Mother thru ?" The girl, crying, replied, Sniff, sniff.... "Dad..... I was too embarrassed, I became a prostitute .." "Ye what !!?  ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Anti-peace lobby is making hue and cry as to why the government is insisting on holding talks with the TTP when the hands of its new leader Maulana Fazlullah are dripping in blood of people of Swat and surroundings and is a captive of Afghan government. They argue that it is pointless to hold talks with Fazlullah who has a history of breaking deals and had terrorized Swat. Those suggesti ...