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 While, the Constitution declares India to be a secular state, granting equal rights to the religious minorities, but in practice, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails. Hindu politics and culture, dominated by the fundamentalists parties such as BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena and other similar groups have been propagating Hindutva agenda which enabled BJP hardliner, Narendra Modi to ...

  سیّد نا صرر ضا کاظمی ہرسال دسمبر کے وسط میں محبِ وطن پاکستانیوں کا دِل زخموں سے نڈھال ہو جاتا ہے اُن کی آنکھوں سے لہو ٹپکنے لگتا ہے وہ کیسے بتا ئیں کسی پہلو اُنہیں قرار نہیں ملتا 16؍ دسمبر1997 کا یہی دِن تھا، جب اہلِ وطن کے لبوں پر عالمِ بے بسی میں بار بار ایک ہی سوال تھا کہ’یکایک پاکستان دولخت کیسے ہوگیا؟‘ کیا واقعی پاکستان ٹوٹ گیا؟ کرب واضطراب کے شکار ہر پاکستانی کی نظریں اُمید کی کوئی کر ن ڈھونڈتی پھر ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism is the mother of all evils and root cause of Muslims’ sufferings in general and Pakistan in Particular. Terrorists have maligned the name of Islam to have acceptability to their inhuman actions with a view to generating semblance of legitimacy. Suicide bombers are mostly juveniles, oblivious of the fact that suicide is ‘HARAM’ (Illegitimate) in Islam. Allah (God) says, kill not ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Pakistani society is always blamed of having the blobs of terrorism, corruption, political instability and all type of lawlessness by the western and Indian media but a lot of thanks to God Almighty, this ‘lawless’ society is still very safe for the women. Though every year there are a few incidents of maltreatment with the women but the number of such incidents is such small that it be ...

 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 ...