By Asif Haroon Raja Upsurge in terrorism and its reasonsThere has been a sudden increase in incidents of terrorism in Karachi, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Baluchistan. In Karachi, Chinese Consulate and Stock Exchange were attacked. In Baluchistan 24 soldiers lost their lives in last Oct? After an attack in Quetta on Oct 15, another cowardly attack occurred in a Madrassa in Peshawar on Oct 27, ...

By Asif Haroon RajaAfghan Jihad (1979-1989)After the Islamic revolution in Iran in March 1979, the next big event which took place was the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet forces in December 1979. In anticipation to the Great Bear taking the next step in search of warm waters, Pakistan’s President Gen Ziaul Haq considered it prudent to support the Afghan resistance movement and to fight the war on Af ...

Reviewed Prof Dr Maqsood Jafri A Lone Long Walk is a collection of the tales told by a creative and fertile mind Tahir Mehmood. He is Chief Editor monthly Hilal magazine. I feel honoured and humbled to have received his rare literary gift for me.These are short stories comprising of a candid message for the promotion of truth, beauty, love, life and patriotism. As a solider his passion for motherland exhibi ...

Farmer Posted By Zaheerul Hassan A sensible democratic nation has to go through several steps in order to claim that they are working towards the good of the people. The American Sikh Council (ASC) has followed up on the latest fiasco perpetuated on the farmers in Punjab and across India. It has been nearly two months of nationwide protests by farmers in most states across India. The ‘Farmers Bill’ is the m ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Kashmiris protesting against Indian Brutality -India seeks to further muzzle Kashmiri voices with new round of raids- On 11 November 2020, The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF) issued the following statement in responses to the actions of the Indian government in Jammu and Kashmir. “We condemn the Indian government's continued Hindutva fascist assault on the disputed region of J ...

By Asif Haroon RajaDonald J. Trump of the opposition Republican Party won the presidential race against the ruling Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in November 2016 who had three million more votes than Trump, but lost in the Electoral College having 538 decisive votes, in which Trump secured 306 electoral votes. Electoral College is confined to few right leaning States where till recent whites ha ...

By Brig Asif Haroon. Major events between 1970s and 1990s Pakistan located at the crossroad of South Asia, West Asia and Central Asia, and being a Muslim country, a nuclear power, and blessed with best armed forces, is an eyesore for the three strategic partners USA, Israel and India since it is seen as a bottleneck in the way of their global ambitions. It is owing to these concerns that hidden hands have f ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiOctober 29, 2020 Indian Brutality in Kashmir October 27 marks the beginning of Indian Occupation of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is forever scarred in the collective minds of the Kashmiri people as the day they became occupied. The Kashmir conflict began in 1846 with the illegal, immoral and inhumane sale of the historic state of Jammu and Kashmir to a non-Kashmiri D ...