By Asif Haroon Raja The perceptible change in regional geo-political dynamics apparently sounding encouraging has provided some respite to the crisis-stricken Pakistan. It has bolstered the spirits of the civil and military leadership of Pakistan and rejuvenated hopes that the year 2015 might prove beneficial for Pakistan. Such ups and downs in moods have been occurring quite frequently during the calamity ...

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 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 ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Hindu bigot Narendra Modi, well known for his acute animus towards Indian Muslims and Pakistan and his passion for Hindutva was elected as the PM of India in June 2014 with a heavy mandate. He was eulogized and lionized by Indian media duly backed by western media and all his past sins were pushed under the rug. He was projected as a go-getter and an economic wizard who would once again ...

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 ...

                       نغمہ حبیب 1971 میں پاکستان دولخت ہوا وہ ملک جس کے لیے ہندوستان کے گوشے گوشے کونے کونے میں رہنے والے مسلمانوں نے بغیر یہ سوچے سمجھے کہ وہ پاکستان کا حصہ بن سکیں گے یا نہیں پاکستان کے حصول کا نعرہ لگایا اور پاکستان حاصل بھی کرلیا لیکن اپنوں کی خود غرضیاں اور غیروں کی سازشیں کام کر گئیں اور بنگلہ دیش بن گیا۔ بنگلہ دیش تو بن گیا لیکن سازشیں نہ رکیں تاریخ سے سبق حاصل نہیں کیا گیا اور اب بھ ...

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 ...