By Ali Sukhanver Hundreds of human rights victims, activists, diplomats, journalists and student leaders are invited to attend a summit which is organized on the eve of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s main annual session every year in the month of February. This summit is known as the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. This Summit is sponsored by a coalition of 25 human rights NGOs from ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The Government of Pakistan and the concerned departments are providing friendly environment for investment opportunities in the petrochemical industry of Pakistan. As a result of various financial and structural reforms, the oil & gas sector has already emerged as one of the most attractive sectors for investment in the country. Such a policy for further development in the oil & ga ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.” Dr. Martin Luther King The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) [Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mohammad Yasin Malik] in Kashmir has shown willingness to talk provided the Government of Indiaclarifies the parameters of talks. In an interview with The Indian Express, (June 5, 2018) Dineshwar Sharma, Indian Government’s In ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have successfully broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad. Army and top intelligence agency ISI have broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of terror attempts. Peace has been restored in various regions of Pakistan, especially in the B ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since its inception, India has never missed an opportunity to victimise Pakistan by creating deliberate water scarcity with the aim to damage the latter agriculturally. Last year, Indian extremist Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the concerned departments to continue construction of dams and ordered diverting water of Chenab River to Beas, which is a serious violation of the Indus Wa ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCHR) has issued its “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir.” The report contains graphic documentation of human rights violations being committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir. This is a significant step towards greater international recognition of the serious abuses commi ...

By Ali Sukhanver  Is there any difference between a cow and a human being? If this question is asked somewhere in the Hindu majority area of India the answer would be a clear-cut ‘Yes’. All Hindus would say, “A cow is more sacred than a human being because it gives us milk, it listens to our prayers, it saves us from distress and sufferings. It is a symbol and source of prosperity.” But in other parts of th ...

By Ali Sukhanver All wishes, all dreams never come true; same is the case with the desire and dream of turning Pakistan into a wasteland particularly with reference to Balochistan. A long portion of Pakistan’s boundaries is guarded and protected by the people most loyal to this land, the people of Balochistan. This loyalty of them is the basic reason of all foreign-engineered law and order disturbance in Ba ...