By Ali Sukhanver Countless questions need serious pondering over the issues along the Durand line. What are the factors which never let Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two Islamic countries, come closer; why has the official relationship between these two Islamic countries never been very cordial and genial; what is the actual nature of conflict between these two neighbouring countries; whether this conflict ...

   By   Sajjad Shaukat Political philosophers of the past indicate that some immoral activities such as deceit, theft, falsehood and even murder are also the principles of politics. Particularly, Machiavelli advises the leaders to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. In his sense, a good leader should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. Morgenthau supports immoral act ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat  Pakistan has always been in the forefront to share the pains of Afghan people, making sincere efforts to resolve Afghan conundrum. Unfortunately, Afghan leaders, driven by overseas propaganda and foreign plots have shown signs of mistrust and skepticism towards Pakistan. In this regard, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, while ignoring the fact that Afghan Taliban are fighting for the libera ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that in international politics, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud and falsehood which become the principles of political morality. They follow these tactics in order to obtain the interests of their countries. But, in case of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has been acting upon these tec ...

By Ali Sukhanver The day is not very far away when you would not find any thing ‘Made in Japan’ in the Bangladeshi market. Sheikh Hasina's government, under pressure from India has crafted a tax policy that increased the tax and surcharges levied against Japanese products particularly the Japanese cars while decreasing the tax for substandard Indian cars. As a result of this tax-policy, Japanese car compani ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2689" align="alignright" width="300"] Indina Poor Nuclear Security Danger to Globe[/caption] By using the pretext that Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit held meetings with the Hurriyat leaders of Kashmir, Indian new government led by the fundamentalist party BJP’s leader and Prime Minister Narindra Modi called off peace talks, scheduled to be held in Islamaba ...

Dark clouds are swirling over the horizons of Pakistan owing to the tense political situation in Islamabad since August 14. Phenomenon of long march in Pakistan started from 1989 onwards. It fetched mixed results ranging from complete failure to partial success to complete success as it happened in July 1993 and March 2009. Tahirul Qadri (TuQ), head of Minhajul Quran and Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) based in ...

By Ali Sukhanver A few years back, I remember, I penned down an article, ‘Sri Lanka Thanks Pakistan’; the article was published in various national and international papers and magazines. The background of this write-up was Sri Lanka’s achievement in wiping off the LTTE terrorists and throwing them away from the Sri Lankan lands. In response to my write-up, a professor from some Sri Lankan university mailed ...