By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan was pushed into the inferno of war on terror by the imperialist USA after 9/11 with ill-intentions. While roots of terrorism were identified in Afghanistan, the war was surreptitiously diverted into FATA, and then into other parts of Pakistan. All this time debate kept raging among Pakistanis whether it was US war or our war. Irrespective of this debate, the fact is that law enf ...

                                      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی اتنے غیر موثر‘ بے بس‘ کمزور‘ عاجز ولاچار حکمران چاہے اُن کی حکمرانی بادشاہت کی ہو‘ جمہوری ہو یا ڈکٹیٹر شپ کی ہو‘ اُن کا طرزِ حکمرانی جیسا تیسا ہی ہو،لیکن جتنے ڈھیلے ڈھالے اور ہمیشہ اپنے ہاتھ ملتے حکمران ہمیں میسر آئے ہیں یا ملتے رہے ہیں شائد ہی تاریخ ِ عالم میں کہیں آپ نے اِن جیسوں کا تذکرہ پڑھا ہوگا؟ اتفاقاً اگرکہیں کسی تاریخ کے صفحات پر ہمیں ایسے حک ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League (AL)  Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by exploiting her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests, especially against Pakistan. Two persons have been killed in Bangladesh in the deadly clashes erupted in the country on January 5, t ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...

                                                                                        (Part I) By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai It is nothing less than astounding that intelligent men who are charged with the responsibility of leading a country cannot comprehend that spending billions of dollars to maintain possession of a very small disputed territory to its north with millions of troops at the expense of their ow ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS' Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a senior fellow with the Counter Terro ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The enlightening and informative article, ‘SAARC summit and the Kashmir problem’ written by a seasoned Saudi diplomat, Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Gazette, December 3, 2014) needs some observations from a Kashmiri perspective. I totally agree with Dr. Al-Ghamdi that “it is high time for the leaders of both countries (India and Pakistan) to take bold and serious decisions to resolve this ...