by Asif Haroon Raja The US led western forces invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and caused massive destruction to the country. Ruling Taliban considered it prudent to withdraw and fight the occupation another day. After regrouping in FATA the Taliban fighters started guerrilla war. While Haqqani Network (HN) under Siraj Haqqani concentrated upon Eastern Afghanistan, Quetta Shura under Mullah Omar focus ...

 سیّد نا صر رضا کاظمی عظیم اور بے مثال جمہوریت کی بنیادیں کن اجزاء سے مزین ہوتی ہیں عظیم اور بے مثال جمہوریت کی تعریف میں عوامی انسانی حقوق کی ضمانت کی شرائط کیا ہوسکتی ہیں ؟فی زمانہ دنیا میں جہاں بھی اِ نسانی خوبیوں اور ایسی بے مثال اور باعث ِ تقلید انسانی خواہشات پر مبنی عظیم اور بے مثال جمہوریتوں کا نظام قائم ہے اُن جمہوری ممالک میں کیا کبھی ایسا کڑا وقت بھی آتا ہے جب انسانی آزا د یو ں کو پابند ِ سلاسل ک ...

[caption id="attachment_2282" align="alignleft" width="403"] Saudi Arabia[/caption]  ناصررضا کاظمی دورِ جدید کی دوبڑی مذہبی اکائیوں ’اہلِ نصارا اور اہلِ اسلام ‘کے مابین باہمی تعاون ‘ اعتماد اور مضبوط ساکھ پر استوار سفارتی پالیسیوں کے بنیادی اُصولوں پر یکتائی اورہم آھنگی کتنی ضروری ہے یہ ہم آھنگی اور یکجہتی پائی جاتی بھی ہے یا نہیں ؟ آئے روز وہ کون عناصر ہیں جو ’’عالم عیسائیت اور عالمِ اسلام‘‘ کو ایک دوسرے ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control and Pakistan including rest of the world celebrate July 19 as the Day of Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan, as on this very day in 1947, the historical resolution was adopted by the by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Abi Guzar, Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim K ...

By Asghar Khan Our thought process – whether creative and progressive or conventional and hidebound – has had its eternal enemies in the form of prejudices, pre-conceived notions, personal likes and dislikes which obstruct it from achieving clarity. This tendency of human mind to commit itself, wittingly or otherwise, to its inherent dispositions not only renders the human thought confused, intimidated and ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The Martyrs’ Day, known as Youme Shuhada-e-Kashmir is observed on July 13 every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the Kashmiris to pay homage to 22 Kashmiris who were martyred in 1931 to free Kashmir from the brutalities of despotic Dogra rulers. The day is the milestone in the history of Kashmiri struggle against foreign occupation. However, the history o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the direction of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Stafff General Raheel Sharif, country’s superior intelligence agency, ISI done hard to bring almost all the factions of Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table in order to have talks with the Afghan government. These efforts materialized when representatives from both the sides reached Islamabad. In this regard, Pakistan Foreign Office said, “To ...

By Ali Sukhanver Staying at luxuriously comfortable five-star hotels, doing a lot of air-traveling to different cities of Iran, visiting the tomb of Firdosi in Neeshapur, the tomb of Imam Khomeini in Tehran, the National Library, the Palaces of Raza Shah Pehalvi near Tajreesh and so many other places of Iran’s national importance; all was dreamingly wonderful and enchantingly attractive. Last month, I had a ...