Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan shares 1400 km border with Pakistan. Apart from geographic contiguity, 42% Pashtuns of 28 million population of Afghanistan share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pashtuns of 174 million population of Pakistan. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border line has never acted as a barrier in their cross bor ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3433" align="alignright" width="355"] Golden Temple[/caption] 28 Years after the organized and systematic killing of Sikhs in India, Honorable Warren Entsch, an Australian Federal Member of Parliament will present a "Genocide Petition" before Australian Parliament. The "Genocide" petition will be tabled before the "House of Representatives" during Adjournmen ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3413" align="alignright" width="343"] Kishenganga Hydro-Electric Project & Indina dams over Rive Jhelum[/caption] On 1ST September 2012, the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) constituted in the matter of the Indus Waters Kishenganga Arbitration (Pakistan v. India) has concluded a two-week hearing on the merits at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Earlier, i ...

By Cdr (R) Abdul Lateef Saudi Navy [caption id="attachment_3409" align="alignright" width="170"]  Abdul Lateef Al-Mulhim (Retired commodore in the Saudi Navy)[/caption] Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967. The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, th ...

Posted by zaheerul Hassan On November 2, 2012 The Sikh Art and Film Foundation is honoring the Ambassador of India to the United States, Ms. Nirupama Rao as the Chief Guest at the 2012 Sikh Heritage Awards Gala in New York. Member of Indian Parliament, Mr. Partap Singh Bajwa, Consul General of India, New York Mr. Pabhu Dayal and India's permanent Representative to the United Nations Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri a ...

by Franklin Lamb [caption id="attachment_3391" align="alignright" width="326"] Middle East[/caption] BEIRUT — Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month’s Republican National Convention.  Illena is the only female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israel’s most ardent agent.  She is a constant thorn in the ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Obama and Romney in their last debates agreed to the existing policies of war against terror. They decided to continue with the ruthless drone attacks in Pakistani border areas of FATA. It would not be wrong in saying that the last president anal   debate of U.S. candidates caused disappointment in Muslim Ummah. Both the candidates are not realizing, that drone attacks are counterproducti ...

 By Firdous Syed [caption id="attachment_3368" align="alignright" width="305"] Indian masses protesting against corruption[/caption] Who are these so-called ‘shining-lights’ of probity in public life? A year-and-a-half ago outside Maharashtra, perhaps, not many people knew the now well-known social activist Anna Hazare.People like Kejriwal, Bhushans, Manish Sisodia, Shazia Illmi or Kumar Vishwash were truly ...