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 ...

      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی سنا ہوگا آپ نے ’تنگ نظری اور انسان دشمنی کا چولی دامن کا ساتھ ہے‘مطلب یہ کہ کیسے مان لیا جائے کہ تنگ نظری شدت اختیار کرئے اور وہ انسانوں کی دشمنی پر پہنچ کر ختم نہ ہو بغور جائزہ لیں تو آپ فوراً یہ نتیجہ اخذ کرنے میں دیر نہیں لگائیں گے ماضی بعید میں حال میں یہ تعصب اور تنگ نظری ایسی وحشیانہ وبائیں تسلیم کی گئی ہیں ایسی جن وباؤں کا شکار ہوکر انسان پہلے تنگ نظر ہوا پھر یکایک تعصب میں م ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                       Recently, propaganda intensified that the militant outfit Daish or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has its presence in Pakistan. Besides some newspapers and media anchors of some TV channels also misperceived that ISIS has penetrated into Pakistan. In fact, they made their observation on the basis of media announcements by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

                                                                                        (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 Zaheerul Hassan The cowardly act of Taliban against innocent students of Army Public School and College of Peshawar is completely intolerable. Taliban carnage of   149 people, including 134 children, lady principal and teacher are totally condemnable and proved an example of barbarism. Meanwhile, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif rushed to Kabul and warned Afghan authorities to take decisive action agains ...

By Asif Haroon Raja It is being generally opined that repeated takeovers by the military blunted growth of democracy and became the major cause of Pakistan’s sad saga. It must however not be forgotten that all martial laws and military takeovers were legalized by the higher courts and backed by the politicians in opposition and rejoiced by the people. But for the deplorable conduct of the politicians, the A ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                        In one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, Taliban militants mercilessly killed at least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, on December 16, this year. According to witnesses, the six militants went from classroom to classroom, shooti ...