By Zaheerul Hassan Six poor coalminers of Hazara Shia community of Quetta were gunned down near Machh town, in Bolan district, on first day of November 2013. The banned outfit Jaish-ul-Islam claimed responsibility, while talking to journalists on phone from an unspecified place, Jaish-ul-Islam’s spokesman Ghazi Haq Nawaz said his organisation had carried out the attack in retaliation for security forces’ op ...

Engr Asad Ali Markhand Corruption has become equal with our existing system and is pushing our nation to a dead end. Favouritism, nepotism, misappropriation of public fund, bad debts and misuse of power are on the rise. Corruption has gained roots in our society because of wrong decisions and weak policies of the successive governments. It is the misuse of entrusted power for private gains. Our country is p ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although opportunism is very common in international and domestic politics, yet no patriotic individual applies it against his own native country. In this regard, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani has broken all the records by rapidly changing loyalties, while serving the foreign interests at the cost of Pakistan. As an ambitious student leader, Hussain Haq ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal Prime Minister’s visit to US has been quite satisfying and successful. There is now a mutual resolve to make a fresh start. Pakistan and US despite their differences on certain issues cannot afford a rupture in their relations or allowing them to slide down to the lowest ebb. They need each other in taking the war on terror to its logical end, settlement of Afghan tangle and working to ...

By Asif Haroon Raja When the Mujahideen defeated the super power and forced the Soviet forces  to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989, Pakistan’s image had shot up very high because the miracle of the 20th century could not have been achieved without all out support of Pakistan to the Mujahideen. Pakistan’s stature once again rose dramatically after it carried out six nuclear tests in response to India’s five ...

[caption id="attachment_3316" align="alignright" width="336"] 126 PMA Passing out Prade at Kakul[/caption] By Sajjad Shaukat It is regrettable that in the recent years, instead of appreciating Pak Army and Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayan, some pseudo-intellectuals, political entities and media anchors have been acting upon a negative campaign against military and its top leadership. By show ...

Asif Haroon Raja While India brags about democracy, secularism and human rights, in reality Hindu Brahmans aspire for Hindu Raj. They consider themselves to be pure and superior and all other communities impure and inferior. Four-fold caste system was conceived by the Brahmans to maintain their unchallenged supremacy. Brahmans insist that castes are divinely sanctioned and cannot be changed or abrogated. Th ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal Monday, October 28, 2013 - Abandoning our long term Kashmir policy was the cost we paid for joining the American alliance. I call it cost because it has brought little appreciation and no visible benefits. The government of General Pervaiz Musharraf when it signed the cease fire agreement with India in 2003 antagonized the Islamic jihadists groups and also threw away the only card it h ...