By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal Ethnic cleansing & the only option The ongoing massive campaign of ethnic cleansing provides little option for the Rohingya Muslims. Former Muslim majority state of Arakan –now called Rakhine, is being rapidly transformed to a Muslim-free zone. As a part of the project, 176 villages –about one-third of all villages, are made fully empty of the Muslims. The current regime has p ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Minister of External affairs Jaswant Singh who served the BJP for 30 years was expelled from the party for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan) and echoing the pain of the Indian Muslims in his book, “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence.” While pointing out the BJP’s attitude towards the minorities, Singh wrote: “Every Muslim that lives in India is a loyal Indian…lo ...

                                                         Integrated Border Management:Scope, Challenges and Framework for Pakistan by Rashid Munir Siddiqui (2017)  Table of Contents Abstract. 3 Introduction: 4 Significance/Scope of Study. 5 Review of Literature: 5 Research Methodology. 7 Organization of the Paper:. 7 Section –I. 7 Concept, Objectives, and Ingredients of Integrated Border Management (IBM). 7 ...

BY  Ishaal ZehraIt is said that China makes time an ally. And the recent BRICS summit held at ‎Xiamen, China, upheld the saying. Understandably, some are calling this summit the second coming of BRICS. Not long back, the United States was seen criticizing China of building a ‘great wall of self-isolation’ around herself. Today the Geopolitical environment has changed with such a degree that opposite seem mo ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On September 7, Air Force Day (Yum-e-Fizaiya) is being celebrated by every Pakistani in the memory of the martyrs and heroes of the 1965 war, and to pay tribute to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) which won aerial warfare by defeating India. On September 6, 1965 when India suddenly attacked Pakistan, its forces crossed the international border and the BRB canal, and captured a town of Batapore, La ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Location: Heart of Asia, with historical links to both South and Central Asia. Kashmir shares borders with India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan and with a small stripe of 27 miles with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It is the only nation in the world which shares its borders with three nuclear powers – India, Pakistan and China. Area: 86,000 square miles, more than three times the size of ...

By Ali Sukhanver Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the mystery-man of India at last got 20 years imprisonment for raping two of his disciples. He is known as the ostentatious leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect. Before the commencement of the court-proceedings a few days back, the situation in the northern town of Panchkula sparked a lot of unrest leaving at least35 people dead. Thousands of army, police a ...

By Ali Sukhanver  The US president Donald Trump is really a wonderful orator, an excellent speaker and no doubt a master of words. He has an ability of mesmerizing the audience with his magical style of speech and with his outstanding body language. It is also very much true that he is a man with extra ordinary nerves as he has been facing a lot of opposition with a pleasant smile since after his election a ...