By Sajjad Shaukat Some analysts see terror-attacks on various religious communities, sects and ethnic groups in isolation, while these are part of a perennial wave of subversive acts in the country, arranged by the anti-Pakistan foreign countries, and followed by a deliberate propaganda to destabilize and denuclearize it. In this respect, Indian aggressive designs could be judged by its civil and militar ...

 by Asif Haroon Raja The Army and paramilitary forces are fighting a guerrilla war against home based militants in the northwest since 2002 without a break. The militants are Islamists waging an ideological war to establish Islamic Caliphate. They neither believe in Pakistan’s constitution nor in democracy saying these are of western model and anti-Islamic. They had picked up arms against the state in react ...

                           By   Mohammad Jamil The destiny of a nation depends on the determination of its people; but there has to be a leader with vision, courage and wisdom with a credible team to inspire them to unite in their struggle for safeguarding the sovereignty and independence of their country. In Pakistan, the myriad political and religious parties, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals have vari ...

نغمہ حبیب ایک اور بڑا دھماکا ہوا اورپشاور لرز اٹھا۔ چیختی ہوئی عورتیں ،بلکتے ہوئے بچے، شوہروں اور بچوں کو ڈھونڈتی ہوئی عورتیں، ایک عورت اپنے سر کو مارتی ہوئی کانوں پر ہاتھ رکھتی ہے جیسے کہ وہ بُری خبر کو نہیں سنے گی توسب خیریت رہے گی، ایک اپنے بچے کے پیچھے چھیتی ہے کہ دیکھے گی نہیں تو لاشیں گریں گی نہیں۔ یہ منظر اب کوئی نیا نہیں لیکن دیکھ کر پھر بھی دل دہلتا ہے۔ نیا تو یہ اُس دن بھی نہیں تھا جب میں اسی طرح ...

  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 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Rawalpindi: Interior Minister Nisar, Gen. Pervez Ashfaq Kayani, COAS, Gen Khalid Shamim Wayne CJCS along with other military and civil officials attended the funeral of three senior military officials who were martyred in a blast near Pak-Afghan border on 15 September 2013. Major General Sanaullah  Lt Colonel Tauseef and Lance Nayak Irfan Sattar were martyred in Upper Dir area when a road ...

[caption id="attachment_3368" align="alignright" width="304"] Indian masses protesting against corruption[/caption] By N Khan Pakistan is going through the economic turmoil which is result of multiple factors persisting over the decades. Amongst major causes of prevailing economic turbulence are corruption, misgovernance, lack of investment (mainly due to security reasons), inefficiency of government contro ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Delving into the history of Pak-US relations spread over six decades one finds that the US relationship was always transitory in nature. After the birth of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam and Liaquat Ali Khan managed to keep foreign influence at bay. Through their strength of superior leadership and character, they overcame plethora of teething problems mostly created by the British and India. Th ...