نغمہ حبیب کراچی میں ایک دفعہ پھر خون کی ہولی کھیلی گئی اس بار اسماعیلی برادری پر حملہ کیا گیا اور چند لمحوں میں پنتالیس انسان خون میں نہلا دیئے گئے۔ بس عائشہ منزل جارہی تھی کہ راستے میں صفورا گوٹھ پر چھ حملہ آوروں نے اس پر حملہ کردیا اوراپنی وحشت وبربریت کا مظاہرہ کرتے ہوئے اپنی خون کی پیاس بجھائی۔ کراچی بیک وقت وہ خوش قسمت اور بدقسمت شہر ہے جس نے اپنے اندر پاکستان کے ہر علاقے، ہر مذہب، ہر فرقے کے لوگوں کو ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir Email:clay.potter@hotmail.com When it comes to triggering manmade disasters among people, there is hardly any difference between a monarchy and a democracy. However while monarchy does it by royal right and imperatives of imperial power, democracy does it on nebulous principles. That makes the imminent or ongoing rigor more sufferable but no less painful. While democracies have preten ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja India never reconciled to the existence of Pakistan and kept hatching conspiracies to undo it. RAW was specifically created in 1968 to subvert the people of former East Pakistan and prepare grounds for creation of Bangladesh. India was the first country in South Asia to introduce the concept of cross border terrorism in 1971. RAW had established 59 training camps along the border of Eas ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_3273" align="alignright" width="300"] Terrorist Head of Swati Taliban[/caption] The memory of the Swat Operation still remains in the mind, though it started on May 16, 2009. The area was successfully cleared by Pakistan’s Armed Forces of any terrorists. In this regard, Swat peace accord was signed on February 15, 2009 between the government and the militants led by ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan has traditionally remained friendly to India and hostile to Pakistan since 1947. The only time it was friendly with Pakistan and unfriendly with India was during the five-year rule of Taliban from 1996 till 2001. However, no government in Kabul had created a situation along the western border to prevent Pakistan from shifting its three infantry divisions from Peshawar, Kohat ...

 By  Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                    There is no intention to indulge in a circular talk or place anyone in a state of now- you- see-  now-you-don’t like  what it might appear in the composition of this phrase. As a matter of fact and historic experience generalities are not permanent as they tend to become in popular lore ,but have a temporary relevance and then fade away into the et ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Socialists agree that historical background and national character play a key in moulding the behaviour pattern of a country’s people, while customs and beliefs also influence the thoughts of individuals. But electronic media of the rival countries have accelerated the process in formulating the opinion of persons against each other. In these terms, as part of psychological warfare, besi ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat It is surprising that media did not take much notice of the report of a US Congress-established panel which has shown serious concerns over the maltreatment of religious minorities in India. In this regard, on April 30, in its annual report 2015, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said, “Since the [last year’s] election, religious minority communities have been subject t ...