By: Sohail Parwaz It was the early 1980s, if I am not wrong. A young girl appeared on the road of a middle class colony of Karachi for going to college, and if I am not wrong, her name was Bushra Zaidi. Out of nowhere a public transport van emerged on the road and crushed Bushra. Other people who were waiting for the conveyance at the place found this accident so dreadful and tragic that they could not stan ...

By Asif Haroon Raja On one hand the officers and men of Army shed their blood to safeguard the motherland; on the other the politicians having sold their souls barter away national interests. Who cares about sovereignty which is already bruised, honor already rolling in dust, as long as Uncle Sam promises to open the tap and cash flows in and that too in grant? This contrast has been there right from incept ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 30 July 2014, a complete family consist of seven members were killed in Israeli bombardment on a house located in Southern city of Gaza “Khan Yunis”. The death toll touched to 1362 that include 312 children, 178 women and left more than 7050 injured in 23 days of Israeli brutality against Gazans. Just in the last 24 hours 133 children have become victims of Israeli missile attacks. Des ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja To cast Muslims as the ‘enemy’ of Jews is distortion of history. Judaism resembles Islam in theology, structure and rituals far more than with Christianity. Historically, the Muslims treated the Jews fairly and humanely. Unlike in Europe where the Jews were hounded and ruthlessly persecuted, the Muslim rulers didn’t consider the Jews as infidels and were not proselytized.  The Jews live ...

By: Sohail Parwaz If one critically looks into the Kashmir quandary, it would be quite evident that the problem aggravated merely due to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s hypocrisy and politics. He was the one who, on one hand, gained time to ensure a strong hold on Kashmir while on the other hand kept assuring the world about extending the right of self-determination to the Kashmiris and kept beating the ethics an ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir Our national leadership is showing familiar signs of cracking up under mounting pressure. This conduct failure appears to be the persistent bane of their make up whenever it comes to delivering on governance  since the beginning of their ill fated political venture in early 80s.As a rule they show a lot of valor but typically fail to clear the bar every time it is set, just like the w ...

By Asim Hamza and Ahmad Khan Soft power is a newly established mean in international power politics, exercised as an instrument to attract others and thus, influencing the behaviors of others to achieve the desired outcome. Having its roots in thousands of years of human experience, soft power is being used in the contemporary international politics to restructure the manner and approach in terms of resolvi ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past, the arena of aggression has changed. In the present era, besides subversive acts, the enemy use techniques of psychological warfare like propaganda and creation of division including other similar tactics to achieve its nefarious designs. For the purpose, the hostile elements also buy the services of intellectuals, writers and activities who are vulnerable, and can work ...