By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan’s Foreign minister has invited leading members of the Executive Council of APHC, senior veteran pro-movement leader Syed Ali Gilani and Yasin Malik visit Pakistan from 15 to 22 December 2012. Probably, purpose behind the invitation was to take initiative and paving path for resolution of an old and burning issue of “Kashmir” through consultative process between the political lead ...

By Nivritchari The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh has issued a notice to the UK based newsweekly The Economist on Thursday 6 December. The tribunal’s chief Justice Nizamul Huq Nasim has directed The Economist to explain why punitive action should not be taken for interfering with the trial. The newsweekly was accused of violating the privacy of a judge by hacking in to his conversation wi ...

     By Sajjad Shaukat Some media anchors of Pakistan have misperceived that Islamabad has set aside the solution of Kashmir issue due to its internal crises including subversive acts, while paying more attention on the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) with India. It was a wrong assessment as Pakistan has endless focus on Kashmir Issue. In this regard, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has in ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver Do we really need guns and cannons, drones and bombs particularly when we don’t have sufficient milk and food for our innocent children, medicines for our ailing patients and books for our deserving students? Certainly not; we will have to decide what we need and what we not. The wrong choice of needs and necessities is always the basic flaw that leads a society to a catastrophic des ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Balochistan continues to simmer and has reached a boiling point because of breakdown of law and order and absence of governance by the provincial government and has the portent of turning catastrophic. Spree of target killings continues and in Khuzdar incidents of target killings are taking pace almost daily. Cruel practice of Wani (a custom to give girls in marriage to settle disputes) ...

         By Sajjad Shaukat Since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by manipulating her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests. In this regard, Indian daily, ‘The Hindu,’ pointed out that government of Bangladesh seeks to arrange the 4th phase of ceremony on 15 December 2012 at Bangabandhu International Conference Cen ...

Report By: Nina Rai    Jerusalem, 04 Dec., 2012 Palestine has slammed Israel for approving the construction of thousands of new building units in occupied territories of West Bank, immediately after Palestinian successful ‘de facto’ statehood bid in UN.   It has also threatened to bring war crimes charges against the Jewish State, if it does not stop the illegal settlement activities. Palestinians are now d ...

By Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid Last year, almost around this time, Salala massacre took place when our sons were brutally attacked and murdered by US forces. One of the officers who was present at that time nearby, wrote this piece and we share it with you here. Recite Fatiha for our officers and men who died that night. By Allah, we will take revenge from the Americans for this murder. ******************* Last y ...