By Ali Sukhanver The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS' Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a senior fellow with the Counter Terro ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The cowardly act of Taliban against innocent students of Army Public School and College of Peshawar is completely intolerable. Taliban carnage of   149 people, including 134 children, lady principal and teacher are totally condemnable and proved an example of barbarism. Meanwhile, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif rushed to Kabul and warned Afghan authorities to take decisive action agains ...

 نغمہ حبیب پشاور میں سکول پر حملہ ہوا معصوم بچوں کا خون بہایا گیا اور بے رحم وبے دریغ بہایا گیا محاورتاَ نہیں حقیقتا کلیوں کو روندا گیا جو بچے شہید ہوئے ان کے والدین ،بہن بھائیوں اورعزیز رشتہ داروں کا تو جو حال ہے وہ تو وہی جان سکتے ہیں ہم تو صرف ان کے صبر کے لیے دعا ہی کر سکتے ہیں کہ اللہ ان کی مدد کرے کہ ان کی مدد انسان کے بس کی بات نہیں۔ اُس دن مائیں اپنے بچوں کو ڈھونڈتی ہوئی اپنے آپ سے بے خبر دوڑی پھر ر ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The topic of the article was suggested by my gloomy youngest daughter, Maidah. During my military service of Peshawar, she happened to be the class fellow of one martyred who was targeted along with 148 others in Army Public School by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 16 December 2014. Many other students and staff members were having close association with my other daughters.  Nine sta ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Pakistani society is always blamed of having the blobs of terrorism, corruption, political instability and all type of lawlessness by the western and Indian media but a lot of thanks to God Almighty, this ‘lawless’ society is still very safe for the women. Though every year there are a few incidents of maltreatment with the women but the number of such incidents is such small that it be ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the one side, India claims to be world’s largest democracy, but, on the other, these claims have often been proved by international media including its own opinion makers as fake. India is presently holding State Assembly Elections in the Indian occupied Kashmir. These sham elections in no way are substitute to the UN approved resolutions to hold plebiscite as per aspirations of the peo ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                        22 years ago, Indian Constitution which claims India to be a secular state was torn into pieces when on December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid (mosque) in Ayodhya, Utter Pradesh in a preplanned attempt to reclaim the land known as RAM Janmabhoomi – birthplace of the god. The destruction of th ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai There is something very high schoolish and unsophisticated about the barbs and threats being traded between Pakistan and India, where fully grown men given the responsibility to manage nations shout at one another like two boys in a park squabbling over some Barbie Doll standing on the sidelines, who invariably has a look of disgust on her face. Think Kashmir. Yes, there have been two ...