By Ali Sukhanver ‘Four kids are standing near the Grand Mosque in Srinagar. They are edgy; they appear to be ready to jump, to run, and to fight, also ready to run and retreat if necessary. It all depends on the circumstances. “They are raping our sisters and mothers!” screams one youth. I am shown teargas canisters, similar to those used in so many other parts of the world to disperse protesters. They are ...

By Ali Sukhanver ‘A wave of attacks on Afghan police, army and NATO installations in Kabul killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, dashing hope that Taliban insurgents might be weakened by a leadership struggle after news of their longtime leader's death’, reported The Reuters on 7th August, 2015, ‘The attacks on Friday, which included a massive truck bomb in a heavily populated civilian area and a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Fundamentalist government of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi still prefers military spending instead of improving social fabric of Indian society. Rising number of rapes are attributable to religious fanaticism, nation’s patriarchy, widespread poverty and lack of law enforcement. Now, India has become an eternal ordeal for ladies, and every 23 minutes a lady is raped. In this r ...

By Ali Sukhanver For the last many weeks, it has been a very popular statement of different politicians, defense analysts and of different TV anchors that the Operation Zarb-e-Azb in Pakistan is reaching its climax. This statement gives an impression that the menace of terrorism has been completely uprooted from the Pakistani society and that there is no more danger from their side now. But the fact of the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India once again escaped from negotiations by cancelling National Security Adviser (NSA)-level talks with Pakistan, scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 23-24. In this regard, as part of pre-conditions, Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup said that New Delhi opposes Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s meeting with pro-independence leaders ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Very brave leader and great soldier, Punjab Home Minister Col (Retd) Shuja Khanzada martyrdom along with DSP Hazro Shaukat Shah. 12 others killed and dozens of others injured in a suicide blast at his political office in Shadi Khan near Attock on 15 August 2015.  He was born on 23 August in his home town Shadi Khan, completed graduation in 1966 from Islamia College Peshawar, got commissio ...

کیا آپ جانتے ہیں ! پاکستان دنیا کا واحد ملک ہےجسکی سب سے بڑی ایکٹیو جنگی سرحد ہے جو کہ 3600 کلو میٹر ہے اور بدقسمتی سے پاکستان ہی دنیا کا واحد ملک ہے جو بیک وقت تین خوفناک جنگی ڈاکٹرائینز کی زد میں ہے جس کے بارے میں بہت تھوڑے لوگ جانتے ہیں آئیے آج ذرا اسکے بارے میں آپکو بتاتے ہیں ۔۔۔۔۔۔!!  پہلے نمبر پر کولڈ سٹارٹ ڈاکٹرائین (Cold Start doctrine) ہے جو انڈین جنگی حکمت عملی ہے جسکے لیے انڈیا کی کل فوج کی 7 کما ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On June 10, this year, while showing the progress of the military operation Zarb-e-Azb, Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif said, “Terrorists have been cleared from their strongholds in North Waziristan Agency and Khyber Agency, and fight now is moving into last few pockets close to Afghan border.” He laid emphasis on “continuation of the operations till elimination of the last expecte ...