Asif Haroon Raja During the Reza Shah Pahlavi era in Iran from 1953 to March 1979, Iran-Pakistan relations were extraordinarily warm. Iran supported Kashmir cause, extended military support during 1965 Indo-Pak war and full diplomatic support in the 1971 war with India. Iran helped in quashing 1973 insurgency in Balochistan. After Shah’s departure, certain events like Islamic revolution in Iran, Jihad again ...

By Zaheerul Hassan 12 died, 80 injured and millions of rupees damage caused to the properties of the people in the sectarian violence of 16 November in Rawalpindi. Authorities have imposed a curfew for two days in Rawalpindi after sectarian clashes erupted at a Muharram 10 procession near Fawara Chowk. Beyond any doubt, one can deduce that the sadism resulted due to the negligence of local administration an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although opportunism is very common in international and domestic politics, yet no patriotic individual applies it against his own native country. In this regard, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani has broken all the records by rapidly changing loyalties, while serving the foreign interests at the cost of Pakistan. As an ambitious student leader, Hussain Haq ...

By Asif Haroon Raja When the Mujahideen defeated the super power and forced the Soviet forces  to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989, Pakistan’s image had shot up very high because the miracle of the 20th century could not have been achieved without all out support of Pakistan to the Mujahideen. Pakistan’s stature once again rose dramatically after it carried out six nuclear tests in response to India’s five ...

Asif Haroon Raja Nek Muhammad from Ahmadzai Wazir tribe, Abdullah Mehsud and Baitullah Mehsud, all from South Waziristan (SW) were founding leaders of Pakistani Taliban and had drawn inspiration from Afghan Taliban. They rebelled against the State after regular troops entered SW in 2002 to flush out foreign terrorists and get hold of those who had harbored them. Prior to their movement, Maulana Sufi Muhamma ...

By Asif Haroon Raja It is frustrating to see our gullible leaders going an extra mile to please India, even when it insults them and Pakistan by leveling all sorts of unfounded allegations. Pakistan has been constantly ceding ground by agreeing to various formulas put forward by UN representatives and also granting concessions. India on the other hand has remained inflexible and refused to reciprocate even ...

Asif Haroon Raja Nawaz Sharif addressed the UN Assembly on 27th and in that he jogged the memory of the UNSC by reminding it of its responsibility to resolve the 66 year old Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolutions. He also called upon the international community to play its due role for the realization of the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people and let them decide their future t ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی ذرائعِ ابلاغ کی مادر پدر آزادی کے بحث و مبا حث میں’اظہارِ جذبات ‘ کے اِن بنیادی پہلوؤں پر ماہرین‘ سیر حاصل گفتگو کرنے سے اپنا دامن بچانے کی فکر میں نجانے کچھ سے کچھ کہنے تک پر کیوں اتر آتے ہیں یہ ماننے کے لئے تیار نہیں ہوتے کہ میڈیا کی معروف اُصولی آزادی کے عالمی پیمانے پر تسلیم شدہ کچھ قواعد و ضوابط ہوتے ہیں میڈیا کی بے قواعد اور بے اُصولی آزادی کا فی الفور نوٹس اگر نہ لیا جائے اور اِسے ...