By   Mohammad Jamil According to Additional Inspector General of Karachi Police Shahid Hayat, the detained suspect MQM worker Kazim Abbas Rizvi, had killed Advocate Naimat Ali Randhawa for pursuing the case of TV reporter Wali Khan Babar who had been killed in 2011. He said Advocate Randhawa’s murder was a “politically motivated targeted killing”. Addressing a pres ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی ذرائعِ ابلاغ کی مادر پدر آزادی کے بحث و مبا حث میں’اظہارِ جذبات ‘ کے اِن بنیادی پہلوؤں پر ماہرین‘ سیر حاصل گفتگو کرنے سے اپنا دامن بچانے کی فکر میں نجانے کچھ سے کچھ کہنے تک پر کیوں اتر آتے ہیں یہ ماننے کے لئے تیار نہیں ہوتے کہ میڈیا کی معروف اُصولی آزادی کے عالمی پیمانے پر تسلیم شدہ کچھ قواعد و ضوابط ہوتے ہیں میڈیا کی بے قواعد اور بے اُصولی آزادی کا فی الفور نوٹس اگر نہ لیا جائے اور اِسے ...

  By  Nazia Nazar As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in US on a four-day visit, a Sikh rights group has secured summons against him from a US court in connection with the alleged human rights violations in the counter-insurgency operations in Punjab in the 1990s. The Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), the New York-based rights body, is now planning to file an urgent leave to effect alternative means of service ...

                         By Mohammad Jamil Last month, Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Ishaq Dar informed the members of the lower house of the parliament that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was investigating the cases of 11,000 NATO/ISAF missing containers on the directives of Supreme Court of Pakistan. “They (NAB) are in the process of finalizing the investigations and has not yet communicated ...

SEMINAR HELD ON 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2013, AT THE 24TH SESSION OF THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 9-27TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL -DR AWATAR SINGH SEKHON RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, CHILDREN AND WOMAN IN SOUTH ASIA SPEAKERS: Usman Khalid, Alan Hart, Dr Abdul M Chowdhary (absent due to Medical grounds), Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, Sardar K J Singh, Ms Irene P Hujon & Nitin Gan ...

BY Asif Haroon Raja While corruption, inefficiency and bad governance which were the hallmarks of the last regime have made our economy fragile, decade old terrorism has struck the severest blow to the economy. Not only over $100 billion has gone down the drain, over 40,000 people have lost their lives in this senseless infighting. Despite such huge sacrifices and economic losses, terrorism has not been bri ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s armed forces have been coping with internal and external challenges of grave nature in order to maintain the security of the country. Externally, these forces have equally been responding to India’s aggression at the Line of Control (LoC). Recently, tension between India and Pakistan has accelerated, as the former set off a series of unprovoked cross-border firings at the LoC. ...

  By    Mohammad Jamil The Pakistani Taliban has demanded release of militant prisoners and withdrawal troops from the tribal areas. “Pakistan must take steps which can develop an atmosphere of trust and can remove doubts and suspicion. We cannot move forward unless the government accepts our demands”, spokesman for the banned TTP told the BBC and western news agencies. As a gesture of goodwill or confidenc ...