By Sajjad Shaukat Although Diwali or Deepavali is the spiritual festival of Hindus, yet it is also celebrated by the followers of Buddhism,, Jainism and Sikhism who observe various customs related to Diwali. Besides India, it is also commemorated in in Pakistan, Fiji, Guyana, Malaysia, Maritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka etc. The festival preparations and rituals typically extend over a five-day ...

by Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai While the hullabaloo over Modi’s rise on the international stage has been on the verge of being a circus, with all the elephants of trade on parade, it is a distraction from the recent collective beating of chests being put on by joint Naval forces of India, the United States and Japan in the South China Sea, called Exercise Malabar, an annual event since 1992 bilaterally between Indi ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, General Raheel Shrif along with Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong has inaugurated the grand opening ceremony of the strategically vital Gwadar port on November 13, 2016. The Gwadar Port currently has 11.5 meters depth, however; it would be more deepen uptill 14 meters and will enable docking of larger ships with a deadweight tonnage of up to ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The sole super power under George W. Bush Junior duly assisted by his team of neocons declared the 21st century as the American century and for the realization of this ambition had designed a new world order (NWO). The NWO envisaged neo-colonizing the Middle East, capturing the world resources under the garb of global war on terror, and turning the world into a global village administere ...

By Sajjad ShaukatAt least 65 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured when a blast struck at the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Noorani in Balochistan’s Hub Tehsil on November 12, this year. The Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack via Amaq, its affiliated news agency. ISIS claimed responsibility for a terror attack on the Police Training ...

By Yasmeen Aftab AliThe world stood shocked at the unexpected win of Donald Trump President-elect of USA. The man who, a few days ago, was being asked publically to step down from the race. There can be many reasons to explain the win. Americans have respected his rise in business in spite of taking of a loan from his father. Some do not wish America to go into a full-fledged war with Syria whereas Trump sp ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While, the US-led developed countries have spent billions of dollars for development in Afghanistan with a view to attaining stability and peace in the war-torn country, but, India has been destabilizing Afghanistan through various sinister designs. In this regard, renowned writer Musa Khan Jalalzai in his recent article “Afghanistan teeters on the brink, “published in the Daily Times on N ...

October 25, 2016 To The Registrar, Supreme Court of India, Tilak Marg, New Delhi-110 201 (India) supremecourt@nic.in Subject: Law in Theory and Practice: Both Way Discretionary in India? Why? By: Balbir Singh Sooch* The way Learned Judges has to say honestly interpreting Law within the constitution of India, the conclusion from the conclusions of their Judgments, can safely be drawn and inferred that the La ...