Nazia Nazar Maoists had abducted collector Alex Paul Menon from Sukma district of Chhattisgarh when he was holding a meeting as part of the government’s outreach programme ‘Special Gram Suraj Abhiyan’. Maoists demanded release of eight jailed leaders, including two women in Chhattisgarh and a halt to anti-Naxal operation for the release of Menon. He was released after 12 days but the details of the swap wer ...

Brig (Retd) Said Nazir Mohmand The Pak-US relations have always been oscillating between two extremes. There are different misnomers attached to this relationship, some vague in perspective and some true in retrospect. The hug is so deep and strong that Pakistan is oxygenated to be independent of atmospheric oxygen and the kick is so odd to be embarrassing. The synonyms to this relationship could be that of ...

Gochan Singh UNITED SIKHS endorses and supports the Anti-Bullying Caucus created by Congressman Mike Honda.  In 2012, at least 13 million  children will be teased, taunted, and physically  assualted by their peers, making bullying the most burning issue and a common form of violence. Thousands of children will miss school due to fear of  physical and pyschological attacks on their basis of their skin color, ...

Dr Paul It would be preferable to resolve this issue diplomatically, and through the use of pressure, than to use military force against Iran. But that does not mean that option isn’t available. Not just available, it’s ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it’s ready. The finalized attack plan arrives as Israel and the United States prepare for joint military exercises in the United St ...

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 ...