By Sohail Parwaz More or less a decade back, when one evening after the day’s hassle I was doing the habitual net surfing that I came across a website named, ‘The petition on line’. The title sounded interesting to me so I opened the site and found yet another page where I found a tall list of frustrations of people, mostly with pseudo names. The petition on that page was by a scoundrel named Jamal Uddin wh ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat In the aftermath of attack on the senior journalist and anchor of Geo TV channel, Hamid Mir who was severely injured on April 19, this year when unidentified gunmen opened fire at his car in Karachi, leaders of various political and religious parties including all the segments of society have been condemning the  the Geo TV channel which deduced hastily outcome of the assault. Without any ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US track record during and after the Cold War is that it has always attacked economically and militarily poor countries. Excepting Israel and India, the aid it lends to its allies is always attached with tough conditions and for self-serving purposes. Besides bloody wars, destabilization of elected governments or regime change through gruesome covert operations is another favorite ho ...

Very sensitive but true sentiments of a patriotic General is being published her  for reader consumption   By    Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_11074" align="alignright" width="269"] Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari, Ex NAB Chairman[/caption] QUOTE Dear Air Commodore Sajjad, We have both fought wars for our country and believe that we “are” because Pakistan “is”, and must remain. I recall our many good ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Local Police forcefully uprooted agitators’ camp of relatives of missing persons from the capital on 28 April 2014. Amina Massod Janjua, leaders of agitators along with some others people have been taken into police custody.  Point to be noted here that the hearing of so called missing persons’ cases is under progress before Judicial Commission and Supreme Court of Pakistan. In this regar ...

By Sohail Parwaz Today is ‘Youm-e-Shuohda’ (Martyrs’ Day). It should have been a day to be treasured, honoured and feted by the whole nation but regrettably it has generally been restricted to the cantonments, military graveyards and to those hundreds of sacred houses to whom these daring sons of the soil belonged.  I often say that one forgets everyday talk but decent and austere words spoken can never be ...

BY PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER At last the dreams came true; the dream of ISI bashing and the dream of dragging the Pakistan Army into a dirty blame game has since long been glimmering the eyes of the international conspirators and ultimately they all got a chance of materializing their dreams. Just six bullets wound up the whole story; may God be kind and merciful on Hamid Mir and may he return to a normal lif ...

By Asif Haroon Raja  On April 19, 2014, Geo TV anchor and senior journalist Hamid Mir was attacked by unknown assailant (s) in Karachi when he was travelling in a car from the airport to Geo office. Out of 12 bullets fired, six bullets pierced his abdomen and legs. The driver who remained unscathed drove him to the hospital where he is currently under treatment and reportedly is out of danger. Such gory att ...