By Sajjad Shaukat This fact has been recognised by all the intellectuals that media play a key role in forming the public opinion. It has the power to mould peoples’ views in positive or negative sense.  In the western countries, journalists enjoy freedom of expression, but they do not cross the limits by exaggerating some chaotic event or development which could result in misguiding the general masses. I ...

Shumaila Raja The all time high increase in the US military aid to its strategic partners in Asia like India, Israel and for example Philippines and the massive hike in the defense budgets of these countries indicate towards a new push to the superpower designs in the Indian ocean region, as well as part of the new world order ahead of presidential elections in the United States of America. Pakistan amongst ...

By     Mohammad Jamil The sixth September - Defence of Pakistan Day - has significance in many ways. Firstly, Pakistan’s armed forces could repel the attack by India, a country more than six-time bigger in population and land mass. Secondly, national unity and trust between the people and the army was the spirit of 6th September. It was manifestation of what Sallust (86-34 BC) a well-known historian, friend ...

    By    Mohammad Jamil Minister of Information Technology is taking measures to lift ban on the YouTube. On August 22, State Minister for Information Technology Anusha Rehman revealed during a briefing that Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) had helped to provide filters through which over 4,000 URLs containing blasphemous content were blocked. But the nation has been listening to this cock ...

نغمہ حبیب Wednesday, September 03 ملکی حالات چاہے معاشی ہوں یا معاشرتی کسی طرح بھی اچھے نہیں اور اِن ساری خرابیوں کی وجہ کم از کم پچھلے بارہ تیرہ سال سے امن و امان کی خراب صورت حال ہے۔ کوئی دن ایسا نہیں گزرتا جب دھماکہ ، ٹارگٹ کلنگ، اغوا برائے تاوان، بھتہ حا صل کرنے کے لیے دہشت پھیلا نا نہ ہو۔ اس بدامنی اور دہشت گردی کی کاروائیوں میں زیادہ ترکی ذمہ داری طالبان کی طرف سے قبول کرلی جاتی ہے اور ایک ایسا ترجمان ...

By Asif Haroon Raja  Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai ...

Asif Haroon Raja In South Asia no country other than India has aggressive designs, or is holding other’s territory illegally, or having border dispute, or is fomenting trouble through covert means, or resorting to water terrorism in neighboring countries. All South Asian countries other than India being economically very poor do not have the means to undertake such expensive and destructive pursuits. On the ...

India is the largest country in South Asia and its leaders never tire of boasting that India is the super power of the region and a potential world power. Indira doctrine advocated India’s unrestricted influence over the whole region. India is past master in covert operations and propaganda war and habitually resorts to intrigues, economic coercion and blackmail. It never shies of threatening to use militar ...