By Zaheerul Hassan Year 2013 would be remembered as smooth transaction of powers from one democratic govt to the other. The democracy lovers truly believe in the supremacy of this form of government due to its main characteristics of electing rulers through ballot and then provide them chance to comply their promises and programs made with the whole population prior of contesting the elections. U.S. preside ...

By Rida Zaheer On Saturday Taliban made  a ruthless attempt and killed over 21 individuals ,which include IMF representatives and Canadian individuals . The death toll from a Taliban attack on a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners and affluent Afghans has risen to 21 people, officials said Saturday, in the deadliest violence against foreign civilians in the country since the start of the war nearly 13 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Some of the glaring reasons that have given rise to religious extremism in Pakistan are as follows: Early demise of Quaid-e-Azam resulted in leadership crisis, which persists to this day. Growth of regionalism gave rise to fissiparous tendencies. Antagonism between seculars and Islamists impeded constitution making for nine years. Widening gulf between rich and poor and callous attitude ...

      By Sajjad Shaukat No doubt, media have been playing a key role by educating and guiding the people regarding various developments and issues which have been taking place on global and regional level. Being the fourth pillar of the state, especially electronic media have brought the matters of public interest and bloody battles into our bedrooms. Thus, it has made difficult for the politicians to wage ...

By Abid Hussain The library is a growing organism first time introduced by the Dr. S. R. Ranganathan is known to be the father of Library, Documentation and Information science from India. This is the fifth law of library science the other laws are 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader his or her book. 3. Every book its reader 4. Save the time of the reader 5. The library is a growing organism. Presented by ...

        By Sajjad Shaukat After the World War I, Turkish Empire was broken by the imperialist powers, as it was convenient for the latter to control small Muslim states. In one way or the other, the same practice continues by some foreign countries which are acting upon their covert agenda in further weakening the Islamic countries on ethnic and sectarian lines. In this regard, being the lonely nuclear stat ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past era, the two warring parties used to follow the rules of the game and Geneva Conventions, while knowing each other’s target. Contrarily, war against terrorism is quite different, as it is against an invisible, mysterious and merciless enemy which does not respect any rule.  It is a war in which offence knows its target, but defence does not know. In this regard, during the last ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Learning from his folly of sidelining most deserving and senior most Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan and appointing Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in October 1998, PM Nawaz Sharif this time acted sensibly. Hullabaloo made by the media over delay in announcing the names of new CJCSC and COAS and then the supersession of Lt Gen Haroon Aslam was soon drowned after he appointed second and third senior mo ...