By Zaheerul Hassan Shocking and sad news was waiting for me, once I reached after Jumma prayers back to my home. But of course, it would have been more miserable and shocking for the relatives of victims who have been martyred in attack during prayers in Shia Muslim’s Mosque at Peshawar. Killing of MPA Sajid Qureshi and his son “Waqas” again would have been proven a great setback for ther love ones. The dec ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While following the double standard of some western countries about terrorism, and speaking in the US baseless tone that Pakistan should ‘do more’ against the militants, Indian Defence Minister AK Antony said on June 18, this year that Pakistan must take strong action against terrorist groups operating from its soil. Antony’s statement becomes India’s blatant joke about terrorism, if we w ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer FEW outside China think the Communist Party’s strategy for Tibet is working. A combination of economic development and political repression was meant to reconcile Tibetans to Chinese rule and wean them off their loyalty to the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader. Instead disaffection is still rife, especially among the young. And all across Tibetan areas of China, Tibetans still di ...

Bahukutumbi Raman, 77, one of the founders of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), passed away in Chennai on Sunday evening after a prolonged fight with cancer. One of India's foremost security experts and often described as an asset by the Indian intelligence community, Raman was a former additional secretary with the Cabinet Secretariat. He was also the director of the Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai. ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  As results of elections 2013, formulation of newly elected governments has almost been completed. Political and military leaderships under the constitution of Pakistan believe in peace process with Taliban. In this regard, PML (N) and PTI have promised in their election campaigns that both parties will carry out negotiations with local Taliban for establishing of peace. But ambitions of ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver The Muslim community in India constitutes about 13.4% of the total Indian population but the people belonging to this community are leading a miserable life even worse than the Dalits. The Muslims are the real Untouchables. Last year in July, a very renowned and esteemed news paper of India, The Hindu sent an investigative team of its reporters to different residential areas of the C ...

Asif Haroon Raja Jihadis who had taken part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces were from Pakistan, mostly from FATA and settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Jihadis from Arab, African and Central Asian countries refused to return back to their countries of origin after the successful culmination of Jihad since they were not welcomed back. The US and Saudi Arabia that had collected them and used ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Much have been written on the topics “Massacre against Sikhs” or in government terms “Operation Blue Star”, or “Ghallughara" but constant factor   of the operation remains the same i.e. “Crushing ruthlessly Sikhs at Golden Temple”. In this regard government plea was, entering and elimination Sikhs freedom fighters were unavoidable due to their presence   inside of the most holy place of t ...