By Brig® Mehboob Qadir At times it helps to recollect and reflect upon missed opportunities and things that could have been but failed to be. Not that it would matter anymore but that a catharsis could usefully take place instead. That is quite a few layers of dirt dusted off the looking glass. Jinnah strived hard for years almost single handedly to obtain constitutional guarantees from Congress for a secur ...

By Tariq Rizwan Kashmir has once again become a flash point attracting world attention. It is a disputed territory, left over by the British Colonial Power and pending since 1947; when Indo - Pak Sub Continent was divided into two parts, India and Pakistan. Since then Kashmir is considered as the oldest unresolved international conflict in the world today. Pakistan considers Kashmir as its core political di ...

Postes By: Rida Zaheer Keansburg, New Jersey, October 19, 2015. Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, former prime minister of Azad Kashmir and ‘the Guest of Honor’ said “Kashmir Million-Man-March is being organized on October 25 in New York to pave a way for a just and durable resolution of longstanding Kashmir dispute.” Addressing a huge gathering of friends of Kashmir in Keansburg, New Jersey, he said the w ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The strategic import of Afghanistan can hardly be overstressed. The rising power, China, and reemerging power, Russia, energy and resource rich Central Asia and Middle East, and strategically located Pakistan surround Afghanistan. In real-politick terms, stability in Afghanistan and regional concord among all the countries surrounding it would contribute in the fast-paced development of ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Taking cognizance of various developments such as unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution of minorities, forced conversions of other religious minorities into Hindus, ban on beef and cow slaughter, inclusion of Hindu religious books in curriculum and creation of war-like situation with Pakistan, analysts have still been opining that being the leader of the BJP, Indian Prime Mini ...

By Ishaal Zehra The US military has offered a series of shifting explanations for the bombing raid, from initially talking about “collateral damage” to now admitting, as Obama did in his call to MSF chef Joanne Liu that the strike was a mistake. The US President Barack Obama has called the president of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 7th to apologize for the bombing of an MSF hospital in northern ...

نغمہ حبیب افغانستان کے شمالی شہر قندوز پر اچانک طالبان نے حملہ کیا اور اس پر قبضہ کر لیا۔ اس سے پہلے طالبان نے جیل پر حملہ کیا اوررپورٹس کے مطابق پانچ سو قیدیوں کو چھڑا لیا یعنی اپنی طاقت میں براہ راست پانچ سو افراد کا اضافہ کیا اگر یہ کہا جائے کہ یہ حملہ اشرف غنی کی حکومت کے خلاف ایک سازش ہے تو شاید یہ غلط نہ ہو گا کیونکہ حالات و اقعات کے مطابق اس کے قوی امکانات موجود ہیں ۔اس حملے کو مبینہ طور پر ملا عبدال ...

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 ...