By Ali Sukhanver What is the need of exploring linkage between Mr. Modi and RSS? It is a daylight fact that RSS and Modi and BJP all are one and the same thing. Even the moderate people living in India know it well that RSS would not have been so strong if Modi were not the Prime Minister of India and these two could never be segregated. On 14th October 2015, the Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi in a sta ...

سمیع اللہ ملک اسلام کی روح یہ ہے کہ وہ ناحق اورباطل کے سامنے سرکٹا دے لیکن ہرگزاس کوجھکنے نہ دے۔ اس عظیم عمل کوشہادت کہتے ہیں اوراس شہادت کی اعلیٰ ترین مثال اورتکمیل کا نام بلاشبہ''شہادتِ حسین''ہے جنہوں نے چھ ہزارکے لشکرکے سامنے عام روایت کے مطابق بہتر(٧٢) مجاہدوں کے ساتھ ٹکرلی اوران ظالم حکمرانوں کے سامنے سرجھکانے کی بجائے لڑکراپنی جاں جانِ آفریں کے سپرد کر دی۔ یہی وہ کردارہے جس کی بناء پرہم یوم عاشورہ کی ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The strategic import of Afghanistan can hardly be overstressed. The rising power, China, and reemerging power, Russia, energy and resource rich Central Asia and Middle East, and strategically located Pakistan surround Afghanistan. In real-politick terms, stability in Afghanistan and regional concord among all the countries surrounding it would contribute in the fast-paced development of ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir World War 2 ended with a horrible bang; Nagasaki and Hiroshima were wiped out of existence with nuclear bombs and the devastation was of catastrophic proportions likes of which, the world had never seen before and one earnestly wishes never does again. Millions of people were simply incinerated to charcoal, buildings evaporated and whole blocks leveled like houses of sand before a ste ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they started accusing Pak Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. The high officials and media of their countries not only blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, but also presumed th ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain, and a man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked, “When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?” Perhaps the simple answer to that is that it will occur when power is distributed among men in such a way that it cannot be abused ...

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, ...