(Part 2) By   Asif Haroon Raja Conflict between the Houthis under Abdul Malik al-Houthi and the elected government of Abd-Rabbuh Mansour al-Hadi, now in exile, is seen as part of a regional power struggle between Shia-ruled Iran and Sunni-ruled Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which shares a long porous border with Yemen. The sectarian problem certainly looms in the background somewhere but is not the main fa ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan Thinkers Forum held a seminar at Islamabad Club on March 29, 2015 under the chairmanship of Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat. Lt Gen Naeem Khan Lodhi and Dr. Sultan Bashir Mehmood spoke on the topic “National Solidarity” while I and Prof Dr Anis Ahmed spoke on “Pakistan has a Future”. I will share my presentation in the succeeding paragraphs.   Miracle of 20th Century Pakistan em ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                                   Pakistan has become special arena of the different war, being waged by the security forces against the ruthless terrorists who have continued their terror-activities such as suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings, beheadings of the innocent people, assaults on security personnel and prominent religious figures. Besides blowing children schools an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                                        The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub Continent, when All India Muslim League passed the Resolution in Lahore for the creation of an independent state. Now, it is popularly called as Pakistan Resolution. Earlier, in his address to the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, the idea of a homeland for Muslims in their majority ar ...

By  Sajjad Shaukat                                                            Every year, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 on global level, focusing attention on the water crisis as well as the solutions to address it. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The United Nations General Assembly responded by de ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While showing their double standard, the US, India and some western countries use one pretext or the other in targeting the nuclear programme of the unfavorable small countries in order to obtain their selfish interests. As Pakistan is the only declared nuclear country in the Islamic World, hence, it has become special target of some western top officials and media persons who continue th ...

By Ali Sukhanver Migration to safer lands has ever been a dominating feature of human history. People who migrate into a territory are called immigrants, while at the departure point they are called emigrants while populations displaced by immigration are called refugees. Another terms used for immigrants is asylum seeker. A  person who is outside his home country just because he has suffered or feared pers ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی بھارت کی تقریباً تمام سیکولر وجمہوری سیاسی جماعتیں اور خصوصاً جنونی ہندو مذہبی لشکر نما سیاسی جماعتیں جن جماعتوں کےنام کے ساتھ لفظ ’سینا‘ لگاہوا ہوتا ہے ’سینا ‘ کا کیا مطلب ‘ یعنی ’مسلح گروہ ‘ ایک سے بڑھ کر ایک؟ ایسی کئی ’سینایں‘ بھارت میں اُس روز سے بڑی سینہ زور نظرآنے لگی ہیں جب سے نئی دہلی مرکزی حکومت کی باگ ڈور آر ایس ایس کی ذیلی سیاسی تنظیم بی جے پی نے سنبھالی ہے اور نریندر مودی جیس ...