By Zaheerul Hassan On 12 April 2013, India’s Supreme Court orders the execution of a Devender Pal Singh Bhullar liberator and rejected his mercy appeal. The verdict of court will lead to more death sentences being carried out. Devender Singh is from northwestern Punjab and, who was convicted over a car bombing in New Delhi in 1993, had appealed for his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment on the gro ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Going through the political history of Pakistan, one is constrained to learn that till 1956, Pakistan was without a constitution. Popularity graph of the Muslim League kept sliding after the birth of Pakistan because of the fact that almost the entire lot of leading lights of this party had no roots in regions falling within Pakistan. Instead of learning a lesson from its defeat in 1954 ...

By M Khan Chishti  “The military operations carried out by Pakistan Army in tribal areas show the pinnacle of professionalism and commitment to eliminate terrorism”, Jennifer McKay mentions in her post visit analysis on South Waziristan in Spherehead Research. The United Nations evaluation expert opines, “What the US-led NATO and ISAF forces, equipped with the latest sophisticated weaponry could not do in t ...

Asif Haroon Raja May 11, 2013 has been announced as polling day. Scrutiny of nominations papers has been completed and submission of appeals to election tribunals and their decisions ended on 16th. Final list will be issued on 18th. Election campaign will reach feverish pitch from 19 April. Notwithstanding the eagerness of the candidates and voters, security environment are not conducive for holding smooth, ...

By Asif Haroon Raja When India was partitioned and moth eaten Pakistan deprived of West Bengal, East Punjab, large slices of West Punjab and Kashmir came into being on August 14, 1947, West Punjab was relatively more developed than all other provinces which became part of Pakistan. Balochistan, Sindh and East Bengal were under developed but East Bengal was the poorest of all. In united India, it had been am ...

By John Chan "Information Clearing House" -"WSWS" - In meetings with Chinese leaders last weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry engaged in a barely disguised form of blackmail to pressure Beijing to use “all options” to force its ally North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programs and destroy its nuclear weapons. Impoverished North Korea is completely dependent on China for vital imports, including oil a ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja When India was partitioned and moth eaten Pakistan deprived of West Bengal, East Punjab, large slices of West Punjab and Kashmir came into being on August 14, 1947, West Punjab was relatively more developed than all other provinces which became part of Pakistan. Balochistan, Sindh and East Bengal were under developed but East Bengal was the poorest of all. In united India, it had been a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat As part of neo-imperialism, external meddling in the affairs of small countries by the powerful countries is owing to the unequal world order. When less developed countries reject the undue demands of the big powers, in the unipolar system, the US-led major states which have strong hold on the UN Security Council, and its financial institutes like IMF and World Bank use various tactics lik ...