By Sajjad Shaukat                       Recently, propaganda intensified that the militant outfit Daish or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has its presence in Pakistan. Besides some newspapers and media anchors of some TV channels also misperceived that ISIS has penetrated into Pakistan. In fact, they made their observation on the basis of media announcements by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

                                                                                        (Part I) By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai It is nothing less than astounding that intelligent men who are charged with the responsibility of leading a country cannot comprehend that spending billions of dollars to maintain possession of a very small disputed territory to its north with millions of troops at the expense of their ow ...

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 Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The enlightening and informative article, ‘SAARC summit and the Kashmir problem’ written by a seasoned Saudi diplomat, Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Gazette, December 3, 2014) needs some observations from a Kashmiri perspective. I totally agree with Dr. Al-Ghamdi that “it is high time for the leaders of both countries (India and Pakistan) to take bold and serious decisions to resolve this ...

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 محاورتاََ 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 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja It is being generally opined that repeated takeovers by the military blunted growth of democracy and became the major cause of Pakistan’s sad saga. It must however not be forgotten that all martial laws and military takeovers were legalized by the higher courts and backed by the politicians in opposition and rejoiced by the people. But for the deplorable conduct of the politicians, the A ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                                                                       Although various kinds of terror attacks have been conducted by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups in the past few years, yet the massacre of 132 school children at Army Public School and College in Peshawar on December 16, this year prov ...