By Sajjad Shaukat More than 80 people died and 150 injured when two suicide attackers struck the All Saints Church in Peshawar on September 22, this year, leading to country wide protest demonstrations by the Christians. For this barbaric act at the church, Pakistan umbrella Taliban movement claimed responsibility, saying it set up a new faction, Junood ul-Hifsa to kill foreigners and non-Muslims to avenge ...

                           By   Mohammad Jamil The destiny of a nation depends on the determination of its people; but there has to be a leader with vision, courage and wisdom with a credible team to inspire them to unite in their struggle for safeguarding the sovereignty and independence of their country. In Pakistan, the myriad political and religious parties, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals have vari ...

SEMINAR HELD ON 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2013, AT THE 24TH SESSION OF THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 9-27TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL -DR AWATAR SINGH SEKHON RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, CHILDREN AND WOMAN IN SOUTH ASIA SPEAKERS: Usman Khalid, Alan Hart, Dr Abdul M Chowdhary (absent due to Medical grounds), Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, Sardar K J Singh, Ms Irene P Hujon & Nitin Gan ...

Mohammad Jamil Military had been regularly briefing the previous government about its threat perception from the militants. COAS Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has more than once informed the present government also about the activities of the criminal syndicate of the terrorists, and at least once categorically stated that terrorism stalking the entire country is existential threat to the country. Some political par ...

                                 By Mohammad Jamil Last week, Federal Interior Minister Ch. Nisar Ali Khan had categorically stated that Pakistan will not accept any foreign pressure in regard to talks with the militants. Before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves for the US next week to attend 68th General Assembly session, the government has reiterated its position that Pakistan would not buckle under any ...

BY Asif Haroon Raja While corruption, inefficiency and bad governance which were the hallmarks of the last regime have made our economy fragile, decade old terrorism has struck the severest blow to the economy. Not only over $100 billion has gone down the drain, over 40,000 people have lost their lives in this senseless infighting. Despite such huge sacrifices and economic losses, terrorism has not been bri ...

By SAEED SHAH Pakistan's new finance minister, who has already moved to pull the economy from the brink and garnered vital support from the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview that the country now will launch a wide-scale privatization program as it seeks to meet ambitious growth targets. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar aims to double the economy's growth rate. Under the previous administration of ...

Mohammad Jamil Indian Army has been rocked by series of indiscipline and corruption cases vis-a-vis land, liquor, sex, and other scams involving even General officers commanding. A Court of Inquiry (CoI) has blamed as many as 56 personnel of Indian Armed Forces including five officers for scuffle between officers and Jawans of an artillery regiment, which took place on 10th May 2012 at Nyoma, SE Ladakh. The ...