By Ahmed Khan The complexities of South Asia’s political and geostrategic environment drives scholars, experts and practitioners from within subcontinent and the West to share their scholarly views on the dynamics of its major component: the India-Pakistan relationship. A relook or revisit to their scholarly work in form of book, biographies and research papers gives us a broad canvas to draw a holistic pi ...

By: Sohail Parwaz First premise: All Christians believe in God. Second premise: All Muslims believe in God. Conclusion: All Christians are Muslims. This is rather an extreme but certainly ideal example of abusing logic and drawing a biased conclusion from perfectly correct premises. People do make logical mistakes and the conclusion drawn from the premises given here is also the same type of muddle, but wit ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the modern era of technological development, the media have become a powerful institution which has changed the world into a global village. Technical prowess, dispersion effect, social prestige and influencing clout enable media to turn into reflecting mirror of society, reporting all events which take place in a social setting. Thus media renders a great service to the society by prov ...

by Ali Sukhanver Absence of law and misuse of law are absolutely two different things belonging to the same category but the latter is more dangerous rather heinously harmful.  Wise people say ‘a society could never be made prosperous through charity; prosperity is directly linked with the presence of justice.’ Misuse of law means injustice. Unfortunately even in highly developed, educated and civilized soc ...

By Asif Haroon Raja After the humiliating defeat of India by China in 1962, the Indians realized that if they ever have to fight against China again, they will need a better transport and logistics infrastructure. The Chicken Neck obstacle had to be removed and India needed to establish unfettered road, rail and-river right-of-way through East Bengal to North East Frontier and Arunachal. Creation of Banglad ...

By Zaheerul Hassan At least 26 people killed and over 20 injured when heavily armed terrorists attacked airport in Karachi on Sunday night. Ten militants were killed in the ensuing joint operation.  The credible official sources revealed that the terrorists were carrying Indian-made weapons including automatic weapons, hand grenades, suicide jackets and rocket launchers penetrated the old terminal opening f ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Academically, the significance of national interest lies in attaining the ability to achieve internal reforms in order to avoid foreign pressures of all sorts. It  distinct a state from others states  with respect to foreign policy, military power, religion, geographical advantages and disadvantages, natural resources, governing system, culturally,  judicial system, overall political envi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Musharraf after coming to power through a military coup on October 12, 1999 decided to boost up and modernize electronic media by allowing foreign ownership in the name of freedom of expression. Private TV channels were given a free hand to broadcast their own programs and news in 2002. Till that time, apart from few private channels, PTV had remained the sole channel. Within few yea ...