By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past wars, the arena of war has changed. In the ongoing era, besides subversive tactics, non-lethal weapons like propaganda can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target country. In this regard, overtly, US high officials state that they seek stability in Pakistan, but covertly, they continue to destabilize this lonely ‘nuclearised’ country in the Islamic World. With ...

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 ...

                                      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی اتنے غیر موثر‘ بے بس‘ کمزور‘ عاجز ولاچار حکمران چاہے اُن کی حکمرانی بادشاہت کی ہو‘ جمہوری ہو یا ڈکٹیٹر شپ کی ہو‘ اُن کا طرزِ حکمرانی جیسا تیسا ہی ہو،لیکن جتنے ڈھیلے ڈھالے اور ہمیشہ اپنے ہاتھ ملتے حکمران ہمیں میسر آئے ہیں یا ملتے رہے ہیں شائد ہی تاریخ ِ عالم میں کہیں آپ نے اِن جیسوں کا تذکرہ پڑھا ہوگا؟ اتفاقاً اگرکہیں کسی تاریخ کے صفحات پر ہمیں ایسے حک ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is burning in the flames of war on terror since 2003. Fratricidal war has claimed 55, 973 human lives and the numbers of injured run into hundreds of thousands. This appalling figure of casualties owing to over 5000 bomb blasts, hundreds of suicide and terrorist attacks surpasses the total fatalities suffered in the 1948, 1965 and 1971 wars and local conflicts with India. While ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat                             Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that as part of the insurgency, terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism and so on. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty ...

      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی سنا ہوگا آپ نے ’تنگ نظری اور انسان دشمنی کا چولی دامن کا ساتھ ہے‘مطلب یہ کہ کیسے مان لیا جائے کہ تنگ نظری شدت اختیار کرئے اور وہ انسانوں کی دشمنی پر پہنچ کر ختم نہ ہو بغور جائزہ لیں تو آپ فوراً یہ نتیجہ اخذ کرنے میں دیر نہیں لگائیں گے ماضی بعید میں حال میں یہ تعصب اور تنگ نظری ایسی وحشیانہ وبائیں تسلیم کی گئی ہیں ایسی جن وباؤں کا شکار ہوکر انسان پہلے تنگ نظر ہوا پھر یکایک تعصب میں م ...