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 ...

"WE HAVE BROKEN THE BACK OF SIKHS IN PUNJAB, NOW WE [caption id="attachment_3169" align="alignright" width="269"] Golden Temple - Indian Armed Forces in 1984 killed 0ver 2,70,000 Sikhs in brutal action[/caption] WILL GET THEM ELSEWHERE - MMK WALI, India's Foreign Secretary during his interview by Madam BARBARA FRUM, CBC 740 'AS IT HAPPENS, 18:30 - 19:00 Hrs, on 7th JUNE, 1984"* When Madam Barbara Frum of th ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_3165" align="alignright" width="271"] Haqqani believes Americans a occupant forces[/caption] American top officials have continuously accused Pakistan Army and country’s intelligence agency, ISI of supporting North Waziristan-based Haqqani network for killing Americans in Afghanistan. In June, this year, US Defence Secretary of State, Leon Panetta repeatedly stat ...