A bipartisan group of 23 lawmakers have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to begin tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, the way it does for other communities. Formed last month to address the Sikh community's issues, the American Sikh Congressional Caucus, co-chaired by Democratic House member Judy Chu and Republican David Valadao, made the request in a letter to the FBI last week. The new lett ...

Asif Haroon Raja India was pleased that the new Chinese premier Li Keqiang chose to first visit New Delhi and then Islamabad. She would have felt mighty pleased if the visitor had visited India only and ignored Pakistan as was the case with Barack Obama. India would have liked China’s PM to behave like Bill Clinton when after his three-day high-profile state visit to India in March 2000; he touched down at ...

Ishaal Zehra  It was fiery June of 1984. There was a large crowd of people in the Holy Shrine gathered to observe the martyrdom day of their Guru Arjun Dev, an event of special significance in the development of Sikh faith. Sikhs from all over the world had travel long distances to become part of this Holy ritual. Many of whom wouldn’t have even thought in their wildest dreams that this could be their last ...

By Zaheerul Hassan IT growth of the current era has edge over rest of development since progress further without internet in this technical age is impossible. The interface of the YouTube website is available in 54 different language versions, including Catalan and Slovene, which do not have local channel versions but overall, it has become the important tool of social media network and the Internet. One of ...

Posted by Hyder Ali Markhand Although, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, Mr. Aimal Faizi alleged that Pakistan demanded that Afghanistan should cut all ties with India, the Indian are trying hard to stall Pakistan's role in rebuilding Afghanistan after the United States withdraws its combat troops from Afghanistan, transferring their responsibilities to Afghan forces in the year 2014. Many politicia ...

By Balbir Singh Sooch The government of India seems to have decided in connivance with ‘Sikhs Agents’ to keep Professor Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar (Born in Punjab in 1965 to civil servant parents Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar became a Professor of Engineering at Ludhiana University. He is now a convict on death row in India) alive as a living dead body in order to terrorize Sikhs for a long period and decided ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With national zeal and fervour in different parts of the country, Youm-e-Takbeer is celebrated every year on May 28 to mark the conduction of nuclear tests when on the very day in 1998; Pakistan became the first Muslim and the 7th nuclear country in the world. While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Recently, YouTube was banned in Pakistan after a blasphemous video titled “Innocence of Muslims” was uploaded on it, causing massive protests and riots in the Muslim World, resulting into loss of life and property, while Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya and Iran asked YouTube to block the movie for viewing. Although Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned access to the Yo ...