By Zaheerul Hassan The “YouTube ban” has become such a bone in the throats of certain Qadiani, Ahmadi, Atheist, Secular and other anti-Islam elements that they have made it their sole purpose to unblock it by using all available unsocial and illegal means. I want to straight out certain facts regarding the case, so here it goes. YouTube was blocked in September 2012 by Govt of Pakistan in the light of decis ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Besides other aspects of the recently released report of Abbottabad Commission which was constituted to probe Abbottabad tragedy in which Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, the statement of the former Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha is of particular attention. Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha revealed that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had caved in s ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During the Security Council’s debate on June 20, this year, Pakistan’s permanent Ambassador to the UN Masood Khan categorically rejected the accusations of Afghan Ambassador Zahir Tanin over existence of terrorists’ sanctuaries in Pakistan, from where terrorists are being sent to Afghanistan. Khan pointed out, “terrorists’ many attacks against Pakistan are planned on Afghan soil.” He furth ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan faces formidable array of challenges, both at external and internal fronts. Internal threats are as daunting and menacing as the external threat. So much so that for the first time in Pakistan’s history, it cannot be discerned with certainty which of the two threats is more dangerous? The Army Chief Gen Kayani has however plainly graded internal threat to the security and integrity ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja On assuming office in January 2009, Barack Obama shifted the US emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan and within a year approved two troop surges to enable Gen McChrystal to wrest the initiative from Taliban and possibly defeat them. Increase in quantum of troops and launching a major operation in Helmand rather than weakening the Taliban further galvanized them to hit back more ferociously ...

(ایس اکبر)          تحریک ِ طالبان جو پاکستان کو غیر مستحکم کرنے کے لیے ہر ظلم اور شیطانیت کی حد سے گزرجانے کے درپے  ہےاوراپنی ذاتی اور سیاسی مقاصد کی جنگ کو جہاد کا نام دے کر بہت سے معصوم نوجوانوں کو خودکش حملوں میں استعمال  کر رہی ہے۔ آج خود  اندرونی انتشار کا شکار ہو چکی ہے۔ گزشتہ دنوں  ڈرون حملے میں ہونے والی ولی الرحمان کی موت در اصل طالبان کے آپسی انتشار کا نتیجہ ہے۔ان کے ذاتی نظریات میں اختلاف اس حد ...

(ایس اکبر) وطن عزیز کے طول وعرض میں قائم دینی مدارس قرآن و حدیث کی تعلیم وتدریس میں اہم کردار ادا کر رہے ہیں اور یہ دینی ادارے اسلام کے امن و سلامتی کے پیغام کو فروغ دینے کا مرکز تصور کیے جاتے ہیں جن سے ہزاروں طلباء فیضیاب ہو کردینی خدمات سر انجام دے رہے ہیں ۔ افغانستان میں سویت یونین کے حملے کے بعد ان دینی مدارس میں سے  چند ایک میں افغان جہاد کے لیے جہادی تربیت کا سلسلہ شروع  کیا گیا اور جہادیوں نے اپنے ہم ...