By Usman Khalid Pakistan has elected a new President – Mamnoun Hussain. Memnun is a Turkish word which means ‘grateful’. Memnun Oldum is ‘Thank You” in Turkish. But memnun is more than a word; it describes a personality. I served in CENTO in Turkey for more than three years (1966-70) and was inspired by the Turkish institution of ‘gratitude’. During the First World War, the Muslims in India were the subject ...

     By Sajjad Shaukat At least seven people were killed on July 28, this year when a US drone targeted a residential compound in North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan. This was the fourth drone strike since Nawaz Sharif assumed office as prime minister. It is mentionable that the latest predator attack came during the holy month of Ramazan. While, recently American President Barack Obama delivered formal Ram ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 17th July 2013, Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan ordered the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to deposit Rs. 2 Billion (within 48 hours) with the office of Supreme Court Registrar, or face freezing of all its accounts. All the stakeholders were shocked on court’s verdict while people whispered around that a grand design against DHA was in the offing as political elite and Judiciary desire ...

Srinagar, July 27: (GNS) Expressing shock over abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by Village Defense Committee (VDC) members of Kishtwar, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanded immediate disarmament and dissolution of VDCs and severe punishment for those VDCs involved in the heinous crime. “The aim of these committees is nothing other than to suppress Muslim community in ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to ISPR press release a Pakistani soldier embraced Shahdat (martyred) and another seriously injured in "unprovoked" firing by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir. The incident took place on Rawlakot’s Nezapir sector near the LoC at about 10:30 am on Saturday. Soldier Asim Iqbal was killed in the firing and soldier Naik Mohammad K ...

Dal Khalsa appeal To Sikhs: display solidarity with Kasmiri Muslims on 26 July 2013 By Zaheerul Hassan Kashmir problem emerged just after the partition when in back dated a Hindu Dogra  ruler Mehraja Heri Singh against the Kashmir population has shown his will of annexing Kashmir with India. It is well known fact that majority of the population including Sikh, Christians and even Hindus were against the ann ...

By Dr. A. Majid  Siraj   CHINA STANDS BY PAKISTAN IN THEIR CAUSE TO FREE THE INHABITANTS OF MAQBOOZA KASHMIR AND ITS TERRITORY RESPECTIVELY WHICH LEGALLY BELONGS TO PAKISTAN ADDS HABIB YOUSAFZAI, KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE India, China and Pakistan are vying for supremacy in weapon technology as never seen before.  The inventory attained by the three is formidable.  Kashmir is embroiled in these equations be ...