Asif Haroon Raja Gen Pervez Musharraf, declared a pariah by the western world because of his military coup against a democratically elected government of Nawaz Sharif excitedly joined the bandwagon of the US led adventurers in September 2001 under the fond hope that marrying up with the sole super power would be beneficial for him as well as for Pakistan. He perceived that alliance with the US would make Pa ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ‘The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the terror began’ is a book recently released in March 2012. Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark are the authors of this book. The authors say they spent a long time on doing research and investigation and finally succeeded in finding out the reality that the Indian government itself is behind the long story of human rights violations in Kashmir. ...

Syed Muhammad al-Naquib The aim of education in Islam is to produce a good man.’ What is meant by good in our concept of ‘good man’? The fundamental element inherent in the concept of education in Islam is the inculcation of adab (ta‘dib), for it is adab in the all-inclusive sense I mean, as encompassing the spiritual and material life of a man that instills the quality of goodness that is sought after. Edu ...

Asghar Ali Shad The tragedy of the underdeveloped countries is that the interests of the government and the state are not kept apart and generally the government and its sub-ordinate organizations see no harm in promoting the interest of the government but consider it necessary. As a result, government considers it as its prime duty to bag all possible benefits and opportunities for itself and to rundown it ...

Mohammad Jamil Daily Indian Express has stirred controversy in India by claiming that the government interpreted some un-notified troop movements this January as possible mobilization for a military coup d'etat. The Indian Express report said the government had taken measures as a precaution on the night of January 16-17, including asking lookouts to identify the troops involved and ordering police to take ...

Air Cdre Khalid Iqbal (R) Democratic freedom that India prides itself has been missing from the IHK since 1947. The voice of Kashmiris has always been portrayed as a threat to India’s territorial integrity rather than treating it as a whistle blower’s call to mend the ways. IHK has indeed been an open cage for the last six decades or so. A United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur has, yet once again, urged In ...

Asif Haroon Raja President Obama on his short hope to Kabul on 01 May to sign US-Afghan strategic accord tendered an apology for burning copies of Holy Quran by the US soldiers at Bagram airbase and for the reckless US Sergeant killing 16 innocent Afghans in a village in Kandahar province. He, however, didn’t deem it proper to hop into Pakistan and tender an apology for Salala massacre to pacify the anger o ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been invited to attend a Chicago conferee. According to President’s spokesman Sectary General of Nato has called President Zardari on Phone and officially invited him for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato). The invitation comes amid speculations that Pakistan is all set to re-open its ground routes for Nato supplies, which it closed after a ...