Posted by Faheem Belharvi The stage for Indo-Pakistan talks is again going to set from September 8th meeting in Islamabad. This will be resumption of Foreign Secretaries’ level meeting in New Delhi last month. There would be no winner or loser as they would be on the same side trying to bag peace and tranquility in the region. The Indian External Minister, SM Krishna, who will be on his three days visit, wi ...

Posted By Faheem Belharvi The propaganda against Pakistani nuclear program started in 1982 when Indian govt. gave the task of propaganda against Pakistan through posts, columns, analysis etc. in magazines and newspapers to a team of Indian Foreign and Information Ministry. The term “Islamic Bomb” was invented by India for our nuclear program and India left no stone unturned to prove Islam as a terrorist rel ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Recently, India has lifted the ban on foreign investment from Pakistan showcasing goodwill to achieve ultimate goal of establishing good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. The ban was imposed under India's 1999 Foreign Exchange Management Act, which now requires amendment for the announced intention to be implemented. Current bilateral trade is only US$2.7 billion per year, mainl ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi I am tempted to quote PB Shelley, “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” In the course of civilization’s history it has been observed that one sudden event of an extraordinary import like the Malala event ignites a cataclysm that transforms the society from a morbid to a sanguine state. I sense that coincidentally the forces of historical materialism had ripened at the junctu ...

Asif Haroon Raja Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo son of Ghaus Bux Bizenjo, an old politician and President National Party (NP) is currently a senator. He was invited by ‘Thinkers Forum Pakistan’ chaired by former Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat on October 2012 to deliver a talk on Balochistan issue. I being a member of the forum was also present. Scholarly Col Bakhtiar Hakeem, Secretary General of this forum, is the ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat The barbaric and cowardly attack by the Taliban on teenager Malala Yousafzai, a child educator and National Peace Award winner critically injured her in Mingora town of Swat, while she was returning home from school on a van on October 9. Two of her school friends were also injured in the assault. Malala’s campaign for right of women’s education continued during a two-year Taliban insurg ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi                      The attack on Malala is an attack on liberalism and enlightenment in Pakistan. Her critical situation in ICU implies that liberalism and enlightenment are suffocating and breathing its last in Pakistan. For the last one decade we are fighting against extremists but it seems that extremists might belong to the race of “Yajooj and ‘Majooj”. After every successful ...

[caption id="attachment_3173" align="alignright" width="349"] Malala Yousaf Zai being treated In CMH[/caption] By Zaheerul Hassan The National Peace Award winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was attacked in Swat, is currently under treatment in CMH Peshawar. Later, Malala were taken to Peshawar via helicopter and admitted in CMH Peshawar.  It is important to mention that Malala had been receiving threats to her l ...