By Sajjad Shaukat  In its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed on March 20 this year that volume of international transfers of major weapons was 24 percent higher in the period 2007-11 compared to the 2002-06 period. While indicating the purchases of arms and weapons by various countries, the report pointed out, "India is the world's largest recipient of arms…India' ...

By Zaheerul Hassan A letter highlighting communal violance in India has been sent to me by one of my resepectable reader from Sikh community. The same is being published here for joining the voice of poor vicitms of state terrorism in India . UNO, international community and civil societies of the world should come out and condemn Indian state terrorism against minorities. Room: XXII Place: Palace des Natio ...

By Sami Ullah Malik, London, UK First of all I am thankful whole heatedly of Br Khawaja Ekram Sb & his all colleagues who organised this conference & invited me. Infect I could not get Indian Visa for unknown reasons whenever Indian Govt claiming the friendship with neighbours. Now I come on topic which organisers ask me to say some something about Travelogue. I am not much of a tourist traveller; I ...

By Mohammad Jamil Theor­etically, any one who believes in freedoms and civil liberties would not hold brief for military dictators, authoritarian rulers or civilian dictators. But in Pakistan whenever Martial Law was promulgated in the past, a large number of politicians, journalists, intellectuals, members of judiciary and people at large had supported the dictator. However, when the dictator tried to exte ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While Afghanistan has already been facing intractable issues internally and externally, some latest developments will create more complications, darkening the future of the war-torn country in wake of new emerging geo-political scenario. At a time when Afghan President Hamid Karzai was making strenuous efforts to have a long-term strategic partnership with the United States for the surviva ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Politics, security and peace are interlinked factors which are directly connected and get affected due to the policies of global powers. The, intelligence agencies play pivotal role in framing foreign policies of the states. However regional and international politics and security environment is being controlled by super powers in particularly through their intelligence agencies. In this ...

By Zaheerul Hassan American unilateral operation in Abbottabad in May las year opened the flood gates of criticism for Pakistan from all quarters. An already hostile international me­dia found it all convenient to unleash their most venomous war aga­i­nst Pakistan, Pak Army, ISI and Pakistan's Nuc­lear Programme. Most of the online Interna­tional Newspapers (with the exception of Arab and neutral countries) ...

By  Suhab Quershi Hindustan Construction Company-HCC- executing 330 Megawatt Kishen Ganga Hydro Electric Power Project has made life hell for the people residing in the dozens of villages here in North Kashmir's Bandipora district, some 59 Kilometers from the summer capital Srinagar of Jammu and Kashmir state. From destruction of roads, buildings and drains to recession of water resources, HCC has trained t ...