By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_13682" align="alignright" width="455"] New Delhi: Ex-servicemen during the 'Sainik Ekta' rally to press for their demands regarding 'one rank, one pension' scheme at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. [/caption] Irrespective of country, pensioners and veterans are part of that community who use to scarify their past for ours today and tomorrow. From the outset ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Mosharraf Zaidi in his article “Lynch mobs in India: lessons for Pakistan” in The New dated October 6, 2015 after briefly highlighting the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri (UP) on suspicions that he had eaten beef and also mentioning ongoing Indian aggression along the LoC in Kashmir has rightly pointed out that germs of religious extremism and intolerance are present on both sides of the d ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Undoubtedly, we always remember the innumerable services and sacrifices of the Pakistan’s Armed Forces, as noted in relation to the military operations again the terrorists—resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), floods, desilting of canals (Bhal Safai) etc, entailing restoration of law and order on many occasions. In the recent past, Armed Forces were in the frontline for ...

محمد عبد الحمید سپیشل برانچ، پنجاب، کے طریقہ کار کے مطابق علاقائی دفتروں سے حالات اور واقعات کی رپورٹیں اردو میں آتی ہیں۔ صدر دفتر میں ان کا انگریزی میں خلاصہ تیار کیا جاتا ہے۔ انگریزی کی اصلاح کے لیئے ڈی۔ ایس۔ پی۔ اور ایس۔ پی۔ ہیں۔ چودھری سردار محمد، نے جب سپیشل برانچ، پنجاب، کے سربراہ تھے، طے کیا کہ ان کے دفتر سے جاری ہونے والی روزانہ رپورٹ اردو میں کی جائے۔ جب اردو اپنائی گئی تو انسپیکٹر بھی روزانہ رپورٹ ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان اور افغانستان دو ہمسایہ اور برادر اسلامی ممالک ہیں جغرافیائی طور پر جڑے ہوئے ان دونوں ملکوں کے آپس میں مذہبی، معاشرتی اور ثقافتی رشتے بھی موجود ہیں۔ افغانستان پر جب مشکل وقت آیا تو پاکستان نے آگے بڑھ کر اس کی مدد کی اور اس کے لاکھوں باشندوں کو سالوں نہیں دہائیوں تک اپنی زمین پر جگہ دی لیکن حیرت کی بات ہے کہ اس کے باوجود ان دونوں ممالک کے تعلقات میں اونچ نیچ کا تناسب بڑھتا جارہاہے اور بات ی ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2670" align="alignright" width="423"] South Asia Conflict Map[/caption] Highlighting inter-related regional problems in his speech at the Central South Asia Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif said on September 29, this year, “Practical steps are required to manage Pak-Afghan borders for gainful conclusion of ...

By Asif Haroon Raja By the time PPP regime took over in March 2008 Fazlullah had created a state within state in Swat and adjoining districts. Former President Zardari and PM Gilani were forced to order a big operation in Swat in April 2009 after Fazlullah broke the peace deal signed two months earlier and his militants threatened Islamabad after capturing Dir and Buner. Operation Rah-e-Raast cleared Swat, ...

Since the US-led global war on terror prolonged, media analysts started attributing it with the defeat of the United States and its allies, while opining about acceleration of terror-attacks in the volatile countries, financial crisis, American heavy cost of war etc. But, no one talks about future assessments of the Pakistani author, Sajjad Shaukat, made in his book, “US vs Islamic, Invisible Balance of Pow ...