By Ali Sukhanver  “The town where I have been living with my family for the last fifty years is one of the most peaceful towns of Balochistan. My parents and my grand parents, all were born there and certainly all are buried there too. We have about hundred houses in our neighborhood and we all are very much close to one another. Some of our people are in the army and some in the local police; some of us ar ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat Welcoming ceasefire offer of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the government led by PML-N has not only halted the air strikes on the hideouts of the militants in the tribal areas, but also resumed the suspended peace dialogue with the Taliban. But, taking note of the terror-attack in the District Court of Islamabad which killed 11 people including an additional session judge on Mar ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The Army and paramilitary forces are fighting a guerrilla war against home based militants in the northwest since 2002 without a break. The militants are Islamists waging an ideological war to establish Islamic Caliphate. They neither believe in Pakistan’s constitution nor in democracy saying these are of western model and are anti-Islamic. They want to impose their brand of Sharia which ...

By  Muhammad Daim Fazil Undoubtedly terror rule in the realm of the country, for decades, has been posing socio-economic and physiological effects. Chaos manufactured by terrorism is highly destructive for effected families and the sufferers have no alternate to hang around. Additionally, we can incorporate the agitation and fear factor in the category of damages done by terrorism. However, in this entire g ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat As a result of the elections 2013, the government led by a nationalist leader Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has been established. Being progressive and moderate man, he ensured that socio-economic justice would meet with success, while playing a key role in empowering Baloch leaders to manage the affairs of their province and also to participate in Pakistan’s decision-m ...

Ignoring 200 million people of Pakistan, US Congress has enacted a new law to freeze Pakistan’s financial aid until Dr Shakil Afridi is released. The law also conditioned financial assistance with more intense counter terrorism efforts. While American government is talking of long time strategic partnership with Pakistan, the enactment of such law is beyond understanding. It seems US war against terrorism h ...

The news of execution of 23 Frontier Corps soldiers shocked everyone who were made hostage in 2010 by the Tehrik-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Even the members of TTP’s negotiations Committee were dumbfounded by this brutal act at a time when hope of success of peace dialogue was prevailing. Surprisingly, TTP’s main spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid is coming up with lame excuses to justify gruesome slaying of soldie ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Two Suicide bombers and 4 others terrorists hit the capital just after the announcement of cease fire by TTP. The terrorists started the attack at 09:15 am and kept on playing with the lives of innocent people for about 40 minutes but none of the local security elements reached to the scene and responded the militants.   During this terrorist action 12 killed and 26 injured. The dead incl ...