Asif Haroon Raja Once the Army of British East India Company under Lord Clive defeated Siraj ud Daula in the battle of Plassey in 1757 with the help of infamous Mir Jaffar, the British in collusion with the Hindus oppressed the Muslim Bengalis and in a matter of 50 years they converted the entire class of their nobility into serfs and upgraded the Hindus from serfs to masters. Bengal which was the richest p ...

Ishaal Zehra No matter how much exaggerated claims India makes about the personal rapport of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the US President Barack Obama, truth remains apparent as luminosity in the dark. Earlier it was the statement of president Obama who, at the end of the recent Nuclear Security Summit, talked about India and Pakistan in the same breath, bracketing them together. Obama desired ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Russia’s Defense Ministry hosted the fifth Moscow Conference on International Security, held in Moscow on April 27-28, 2016 with the participation of high military officials and experts from around the world to discuss the fight against terrorism and other pressing security challenges. Besides, security problems of Asian-Pacific region, war and peace problems in Europe as well as global se ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is credited for reversing the security situation during his extended six years tenure. Soon after he took over from Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in November 2007, he tasked the ISI under Lt Gen Shuja Pasha to regain lost intelligence space in FATA that had been surreptitiously captured by CIA and FBI by establishing outposts and creating TTP. He reverted army off ...

By Asif Haroon Raja 11.5 million files leaked by a whistle blower from an offshore company in Panama and published by a German newspaper has created ripples in the world. These are just the first batch released and many more are likely to be made public. Leaks are not a new phenomenon when seen in context with WikiLeaks and Snowden’s revelations. Nothing came out of the two earthshaking exposures and those ...

نغمہ حبیب مذہبی فرائض ، روایات اور معاشرتی رسوم و رواج کسی بھی معاشرے کی پہچان ہوتے ہیں۔ کچھ عرصہ پہلے تک پاکستانی معاشرہ اپنی ایک مضبوط شناخت رکھتا تھا لباس ، طور طریقہ ، شادی بیاہ ، اٹھک بیٹھک سب میں ایک مخصوص انداز تھا آج بہت ساری ایسی چیزیں تصویروں میں ہی نظر آتی ہیں ورنہ آج کی نسل ان تمام رسوم اور اقدار کے عملی تجربے سے تو محروم ہے ہی ان کے مشاہدے میں بھی یہ چیز نہیں آرہی ۔وقت کے ساتھ تبدیلی کوئی انوکھ ...

نغمہ حبیب طالبان، القائدہ، آئی ایس آئی ایس نجانے کون کونسے نام ہیں لیکن مقصد صرف ایک ہے فساد پھیلانا اور فساد کے نام پر اسلام کو بدنام کرنا ۔ ورنہ اسلام کیسے اجازت دے سکتا ہے کہ کسی انسان کا خون بہاؤ وہ بھی کسی غریب راہ چلتے مسلمان کو مار کر، کسی خاندان کو اجاڑ کر کسی کو یتیم اور کسی کو بے اولاد کر کے پھر بھی کوئی جنت کی توقع کرے۔ کیا خلافت کا دعویٰ کرنے والوں نے اسلام ،پیغمبرﷺ اور صحابہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism which is inhuman has enveloped almost entire world in general and South Asia in particular. Pakistan is a country subjected to terrorism itself. Present military and civilian leadership is determined to unearth and root out the menace from its soil, because the survival of the country itself is at stake and the entire nation shares this resolve. However, various developments have ...