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 ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی انسانیت کا امن وقت کے ساتھ ساتھ دنیا کے ہر خطہ میں خاص کر اگر جنوبی ایشیا ئی امن کی بات کی جائے تو اِس حقیقت جھٹلایا نہیں جاسکتا کہ بھارتی اسٹیبلیشمنٹ کے نکتہ  نظر کے مقابلے میں پاکستانی عوام ‘ پاکستانی ریاست اور سیکورٹی ادارے معاشی واقتصادی آسودگی ‘ اندرونی وبیرونی امن وامان اور سماجی خوشحالی کے سوا اور کچھ نہیں چاہتے ‘پاکستانی عوام جنوبی ایشیا میں ہر قیمت پر امن کے کل بھی خواہش مندتھے ...

(Presentation given by Brig retired Asif Haroon Raja at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on November 29, 2014, chaired by Air Chief Marshal retired Kaleem Sadat, Gen retired Mirza Aslam Beg as chief guest and Lt Gen Abu Saeeduz Zafar in attendance). I shall be dwelling upon the newly emerged threat of Da’esh, which is also known as Islamic State of Iraq & Sham (ISIS), which later morphed into Islamic State (IS), ...

By Ali Sukhanver In a move intended to mend shattering and tattering ties with the Unites States, the newly-elected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and US Ambassador James Cunningham, signed the Bilateral Security Agreement known as ‘BSA’ this year on 30th September at the presidential palace in Kabul. The deal allows the US to leave a small contingent of troops in the country beyond this year, when a NATO-le ...

                                        By Sajjad Shaukat On November 23, this year, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told the Indian media that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will have a meeting on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, being held in Kathmandu on November 26-27. He elab ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Six days visit of Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif to the United States has proved very successful and is considered a landmark in Pak-US relations. In his interaction, with the US top military and civil officials, Pakistan’s army chief straightforwardly pointed out co-relationship of regional problems including Pakistan’s sacrifices during war against terrorism, succ ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai November 23, 2014 “Whatever the (Indian) Government spokesman might have said before, or may say now, there has never been a free and fair election in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.” Jayaprakash Narayan, ‘India’s Conscience-Keeper.’ Hope and change the Modi way seems to have taken in the majority of India's voters since he was elected in May, 2014 but his message to the flood-ravaged ...

نغمہ حبیب کچھ ادارے یا کچھ لوگ کسی ملک کی پہچان ہوتے ہیں اور ان پر ممالک فخر کرتے ہیں۔پاکستان ایک زرخیز ملک ہے جو انسانی اور قدرتی وسائل سے بھرپور ہے اور ساتھ ہی ساتھ ہی اس کو خدا نے بہترین دماغوں سے بھی نوازا ہواہے اور ایسے ہی کچھ دماغ جب آپس میں ملے اور ملک کی بہتری کے لیے کوشاں ہوئے تو پاک فوج کا ادارہ آئی ایس آئی وجود میں آیا اور بلاشبہ پاکستان کی پہچان بنا۔یہ بات سبھی جانتے ہیں کہ آئی ایس آئی نے پاکستا ...