By Sajjad Shaukat On December 13, 2001, five terrorists had attacked the Indian parliament by penetrating the tight security in a car with home ministry and parliament labels, and resulted into deaths of the gunmen along with six police officers, after an exchange of gun battle. The day has come at a time when in one way or the other, India has been repeating the similar blame game against Pakistan. On Dece ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Each year, Human Rights Day is observed all over the world, especially by the oppressed nations on December 10, as on this very day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It reflected the conviction that human dignity is at the heart of our societies and that respect for human rights is essential to the prevention of conflict and the ...

By Atta Rasool Malik Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) part their ways soon after their merger. A day earlier Press conference of Mustafa Kamal and Farooq Sattar had captured nationwide attention and their statements and pledges made headlines on national media. Then it appeared that Muhajirs were ready to say goodbye to infamous legacy of Altaf Hussain. In the press co ...

By Atta Rasool Malik The US and the Western Allied forces remained the major chess players in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region through proxies since 2001. Pakistan had no influence on Afghan policies being drawn by those powers. The main reason attributed to the turbulence in Afghanistan was exclusion of Pashtun faction from the Afghan government and Indian investment which paved way to interfere in Afghanis ...

By Atta Rasool Malik “It is very difficult to give an exact figure but, we have killed around 200 In Kashmir.” The assessment of local terrorists is around 110-120. Similarly, the foreigners are about 100”. It was so sad to listen Lieutenant General Sandhu addressing a press conference in Indian occupied Kashmir two days ago. The Indian general did not know or possibly did not care how many humans, so-calle ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں ایک جملہ جو بہت تواتر سے سننے کو ملتا ہے کہ ’’اس میں اسٹبلشمنٹ کا ہاتھ ہے‘‘ یہ ’’اس‘‘ اکثر سیاسی معاملہ ہوتا ہے اور اسٹبلشمنٹ کا مطلب فوج ہوتا ہے کہنے کو ہم یہ بھی کہتے ہیں کہ فوج سب معاملات میں مداخلت کی مجاز نہیں بالکل درست ہے فوج کا کام دفاع ہے اور سیاست کا کام حکومت کا چلانا ہے لیکن اس کا یہ مطلب بھی ہر گز نہیں کہ فوج ملک کے اندر ہونے والے کسی واقعے پر اپنی رائے کا اظہار بھی نہ کر ...

By Ali Sukhanver I was searching for the hard copy of an old article of mine in my record-room, a few days back. I just came by a letter which my younger son had written to America almost ten years back. Then he himself was nine years old. The letter said, “Dear Uncle Sam! Why don’t you look at the toddlers, searching for their mothers and crying for their fathers in the burning valleys of the Indian held K ...

By Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch First is to decide-make a decision, come to a decision, make your mind up, resolve; end something clearly, ‘to bring something to an end in a definite or obvious way’ and analysis independently, ‘whether human perfection is not imperfect and corrupt minus ‘Rule Of Law’ or What is imperfect and corrupt human minus of ‘Rule Of Law’? Human nature of people; relating to, ...