By Asif Haroon Raja Mosharraf Zaidi in his article “Lynch mobs in India: lessons for Pakistan” in The New dated October 6, 2015 after briefly highlighting the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri (UP) on suspicions that he had eaten beef and also mentioning ongoing Indian aggression along the LoC in Kashmir has rightly pointed out that germs of religious extremism and intolerance are present on both sides of the d ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2670" align="alignright" width="423"] South Asia Conflict Map[/caption] Highlighting inter-related regional problems in his speech at the Central South Asia Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif said on September 29, this year, “Practical steps are required to manage Pak-Afghan borders for gainful conclusion of ...

By Asif Haroon Raja By the time PPP regime took over in March 2008 Fazlullah had created a state within state in Swat and adjoining districts. Former President Zardari and PM Gilani were forced to order a big operation in Swat in April 2009 after Fazlullah broke the peace deal signed two months earlier and his militants threatened Islamabad after capturing Dir and Buner. Operation Rah-e-Raast cleared Swat, ...

Since the US-led global war on terror prolonged, media analysts started attributing it with the defeat of the United States and its allies, while opining about acceleration of terror-attacks in the volatile countries, financial crisis, American heavy cost of war etc. But, no one talks about future assessments of the Pakistani author, Sajjad Shaukat, made in his book, “US vs Islamic, Invisible Balance of Pow ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is inflicted with large numbers of diseases and some of the reasons for these afflictions are leadership crisis, feudalism, weak governance, financial mismanagement, rampant corruption and crime, weak judicial system, lack of accountability, non-adherence to rule of law, political polarization, tense civil-military relations, provincialism, lack of nationalism and above all Indi ...

By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal The unending crisis The Muslim world is now in the tight grip of an overwhelming crisis. It has engulfed not only the politics, but also the religious beliefs, the ideology, the spirituality, the culture, the education, the defence – in fact, all arenas of Muslims’ life. Day by day, the crisis is deepening and getting a catastrophic dimension. It shows no exit way. Rather it appear ...

By  Ali Sukhanver Terrorism is a menace which could engulf the whole world if not timely taken care of. In other words the war against terrorism is not for the betterment of some individual or for the benefit of some particular group, it is for the safer and brighter future of the whole world. Though this war against terrorism was started by America but at present there is no America anywhere in this war; i ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Military thinkers agree that although the physical force will determine the type and scale of war, yet it is the will to fight or moral force which determines the outcome of war. Clausewitz puts it this way, “One might say that the physical force seems little more than the wooden hilt, while moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon.” In his book, “Fighting Power: German and U. ...