By Zaheerul Hassan The topic of the article was suggested by my gloomy youngest daughter, Maidah. During my military service of Peshawar, she happened to be the class fellow of one martyred who was targeted along with 148 others in Army Public School by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 16 December 2014. Many other students and staff members were having close association with my other daughters.  Nine sta ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                        22 years ago, Indian Constitution which claims India to be a secular state was torn into pieces when on December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid (mosque) in Ayodhya, Utter Pradesh in a preplanned attempt to reclaim the land known as RAM Janmabhoomi – birthplace of the god. The destruction of th ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai There is something very high schoolish and unsophisticated about the barbs and threats being traded between Pakistan and India, where fully grown men given the responsibility to manage nations shout at one another like two boys in a park squabbling over some Barbie Doll standing on the sidelines, who invariably has a look of disgust on her face. Think Kashmir. Yes, there have been two ...

 نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں سیاسی جماعتوں کی ایک فصل ہے جو اُگی ہوئی ہے اور کوئی نہ کوئی نئی پارٹی اُگ کر اس فصل کی اٹھان میں نیا اضافہ کر دیتی ہے لیکن ہوتا کچھ نہیں ہے نہ عوام اور خواص کے درمیان خلیج پاٹی جاتی ہے نہ مسائل حل کیے جاتے ہیں ، نہ ملکی ترقی کے لیے کام کیا جاتا ہے، نہ قومی یکجہتی ضروری سمجھی جاتی ہے اورنہ مذہبی رواداری پیدا کرنے کی کوشش کی جاتی ہے یعنی جن مسائل اور بنیادوں پر سیاست ہونی چاہیے وہ کہیں ...

(Presentation given by Brig retired Asif Haroon Raja at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on November 29, 2014, chaired by Air Chief Marshal retired Kaleem Sadat, Gen retired Mirza Aslam Beg as chief guest and Lt Gen Abu Saeeduz Zafar in attendance). I shall be dwelling upon the newly emerged threat of Da’esh, which is also known as Islamic State of Iraq & Sham (ISIS), which later morphed into Islamic State (IS), ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Promoting Hindu chauvinism on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans, Prime Minister of India and leader of the fundamentalist party BJP, Narendra Modi had won a landslide victory in the elections 2014. Since BJP came to power, Prime Minister Modi has been implementing its party’s agenda by accelerating false propaganda against Pakistan, its Armed Forces and especially against ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai November 23, 2014 “Whatever the (Indian) Government spokesman might have said before, or may say now, there has never been a free and fair election in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.” Jayaprakash Narayan, ‘India’s Conscience-Keeper.’ Hope and change the Modi way seems to have taken in the majority of India's voters since he was elected in May, 2014 but his message to the flood-ravaged ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat    During his first visit to the United States, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif held talks with the top US generals and officials. Gen. Raheel Sharif who was warmly welcomed in the US was also conferred with the US Legion of Merit Medal in recognition of his brave leadership and efforts to ensure peace in the region. Analysts are taking the successful trip of Gen. ...