By Sajjad Shaukat Within four months, clearing more than 80 percent areas in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan’s Armed Forces have almost defeated the ferocious militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has rapidly been achieving its objectives. Present different war between Pakistan’s Armed Forces and the TTP insurgents is simply a ‘clash of wills’ between two ...

By Ali Sukhanver  Just a few days back, David Swanson, a well known American journalist and a human rights activist penned down an article, ‘Again the Peace Prize Not for Peace.’ The topic of this article is awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yusafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. He says in this article, ‘According to Alfred Nobel's will the Nobel Peace Prize must go to the person who has done the be ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat           By setting aside the principles of nuclear deterrence, intensity in the Indian unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB), which killed several persons since October 6, this year inside Pakistan, is alarming for peace-loving countries of South Asia including those of the world. Calling for restraining its forces from constant violations of the ce ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Taliban insurgency which triggered soon after the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by the US led western forces and Afghan Northern Alliance troops in November 2001 is still raging and gathering strength. Resistance forces have forced the occupying forces to exit by end December 2014. The US will be abandoning Afghanistan in disgrace and will leave behind an unstable, impoverished ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  The World Youngest 17 years old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi have won Nobel Prize -2014 for their work promoting children’s rights of education. At this occasion while awarding the prize The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that a peaceful global development can only come about if children and the young are respected. She is the second Pakistani to become a No ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                     Since October 6, this year, India accelerated cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB) and killed several innocent persons including their animals inside Pakistan. It compelled tens thousands of the residents of the villages to migrate to safe areas, with their livestock and other belongings. In this regard, spokesman of the Inter- ...

 By Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                      There had been a heart wrenching  story of mass suicides by Indian Punjab farmers(7000 up to now) under the burden of unpaid debt  of state and private lenders, in an Indian magazine(The Week, August 2014) sometime ago. Besides the vast scale of human tragedy and stupendous official apathy what was most striking was the fact that a major canal tha ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Nine lac cusec high flood water tide of River Chenab leaving behind miseries, destructions, deaths and after rocking the provinces of Punjab and Sindh has now entered into the Arabian Sea. On 3 October 2014, while addressing the International Donors Conference in Islamabad, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has shown concern over the continuous depleting economy due to flood 2014, internally dis ...