By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                        In one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, Taliban militants mercilessly killed at least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, on December 16, this year. According to witnesses, the six militants went from classroom to classroom, shooti ...

By Ali  Sukhanver Life is going to prove hazardously disastrous for the Muslims and Christians of India in general and particularly for those who are unfortunately poor and destitute. The Hindu extremists are doing all their best to compel the poor Muslims and the Christians to embrace Hinduism and say good-bye to their forefather’s religion. These poor Muslims and Christians are being offered a lot of bene ...

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 ...

  سیّد نا صرر ضا کاظمی ہرسال دسمبر کے وسط میں محبِ وطن پاکستانیوں کا دِل زخموں سے نڈھال ہو جاتا ہے اُن کی آنکھوں سے لہو ٹپکنے لگتا ہے وہ کیسے بتا ئیں کسی پہلو اُنہیں قرار نہیں ملتا 16؍ دسمبر1997 کا یہی دِن تھا، جب اہلِ وطن کے لبوں پر عالمِ بے بسی میں بار بار ایک ہی سوال تھا کہ’یکایک پاکستان دولخت کیسے ہوگیا؟‘ کیا واقعی پاکستان ٹوٹ گیا؟ کرب واضطراب کے شکار ہر پاکستانی کی نظریں اُمید کی کوئی کر ن ڈھونڈتی پھر ...

وزیر اعلیٰ ڈاکٹر عبدالمالک بلوچ صوبے کے پہلے چیف منسٹر ہیں جو میر ے اور آپ کی طر ح ایک عام شہری ہیں ، مگر چندعناصر سے اُن کی سی ایم شپ ہضم نہیں ہو رہی ہے اور مخلوط حکومت میں ہوتے ہوئے بھی اُن کے خلاف سازشیں تیار کر رہے ہیں جو کہ افسوس ناک امر ہے۔ سی ایم شپ پشتونخواہ ملی عوامی پارٹی کی کاؤشوں سے وزیر اعلیٰ کو مینڈیٹ دیا گیا ہے پشتون خواہ پارٹی نے اپنی روایات پر قائم ہوکر میرٹ اور حالات کو ترجیح دیکر سرداروں ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism is the mother of all evils and root cause of Muslims’ sufferings in general and Pakistan in Particular. Terrorists have maligned the name of Islam to have acceptability to their inhuman actions with a view to generating semblance of legitimacy. Suicide bombers are mostly juveniles, oblivious of the fact that suicide is ‘HARAM’ (Illegitimate) in Islam. Allah (God) says, kill not ...

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 ...