By Sajjad Shaukat                                           During American President Barack Obama’s visit to India, on January 25, this year, the US and India announced a breakthrough on a pact which would allow American companies to supply New Delhi with civilian nuclear technology. In this regard, both the countries had signed a deal in 2008, but, Indian access to civilian nuclear technology was held up ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی بھارت میں ہر برس 26 ؍ جنوری کو ’یومِ جمہوریہ ‘ منا نے تقریب منعقد کی جاتی ہے دنیا کو یہ باور کرایا جاتا ہے کہ بھارت جو کثیر النسلی ‘ کئی زبانیں بولنے اور کئی مذاہب کے ماننے والوں کا ملک ہے، ’ہندو قوم ‘ کی اکثریت اِس دیش میں آباد ہے، ہندوؤں میں دوتہائی سے زیادہ تعداد ’دلتوں‘ کی ہے جنہیں بھارت بھر میں ’اچھوت ‘ تصور کیا جاتا ہے ہندوبراہمنوں نے گزشتہ67 برسوں سے ’سیکولرازم ‘ کی آڑمیں ’جمہوری ...

By Muhammad DaimFazil School auditoriums, which usually are used for student’s gathering for academic activities or celebrations, turned mourning ground for the parents of the barbarically slayed youngsters in the Army Public School Peshawar (APSP). The highly inhuman act has not simply trashed the nurturing dreams of 132 kids who were killed in the auditorium but also of those who witnessed slaughter of th ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai  “We should probably try to facilitate a better understanding between Pakistan and India and try to resolve the Kashmir crisis…” President Obama, October 30, 2008 Your planned visit to India has inspired hopes, in the hearts of Americans of Kashmiri origin, that your global statesmanship may move the frozen dispute over the status of Kashmir towards a settlement based on justice and r ...

 By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal  The hate campaign The killings at Charlie Hebdo had sent powerful shock waves all over the West. Now the security threats and fear run very high everywhere. It seems that not only the hateful Islamophobic cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, but also the politicians and the security officers of the West have turned pathologically paranoid. Even an unattended bag in a railway or undergro ...

نغمہ حبیب مسلمان سو رہا ہے اور ایک بار پھر اُس کی عزت سے کھیل لیا گیا اور توہین آمیز خاکے شائع کیے گئے اور ایسا اب کی بار فرانس کے اخبار چارلی ہیبڈو نے کیا ایسا پہلی بار نہیں ہوا کہ مسلمانوں کے جذبات سے کھیلا گیا ہو ایسے ہی خاکے پہلے ناروے میں بھی شائع ہو چکے ہیں اور نہ یہ ایک واحد انداز ہے جس سے مسلمانوں کی دل آزاری کی گئی ہو۔ نعوذبااللہ”برن دی قرآن“ جیسے باقاعدہ قسم کے پروگرام بھی بنائے اور چلائے گئے ظاہر ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat During his recent visit to Pakistan, the newly-elected President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani said that his government and the people of Afghanistan desire to further strengthen bilateral relations with Pakistan in all areas of mutual interest. He elaborated, “We must overcome the past…we will not permit the past to destroy the future.” The Afghan president who was accompanied by Afghan D ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan was pushed into the inferno of war on terror by the imperialist USA after 9/11 with ill-intentions. While roots of terrorism were identified in Afghanistan, the war was surreptitiously diverted into FATA, and then into other parts of Pakistan. All this time debate kept raging among Pakistanis whether it was US war or our war. Irrespective of this debate, the fact is that law enf ...