Rida Zaheer The first female prime minister in her country's history, Thatcher came to embody a turn toward a free-market political program that sought to unleash economic dynamism through an aggressive program of privatizations and tax reductions. Thatcherism -- as her political program became known to both her supporters and detractors -- would throw off the heavy hand of the state and seek a Britain with ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the acceleration of propaganda campaign by the external elements against Pakistan and its army, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid who has pro-Indian tilt has also been maligning Pak Army. Unfortunately, some prominent persons of our country also speak in the tone foreign anti-Pakistan entities. In this regard, unlike the past years, this time a ceremony was held in Dhaka ...

Asif Haroon Raja It has been alleged that Pakistani troops raped 300,000 women on and after March 25, 1971 in former East Pakistan. This allegation has generally been accepted by the world at large and even by some Pakistani secular pseudo intellectuals like Tahira Abdullah, Asma Gilani and others. Sheikh Mujib was the inventor of this themes fed to him by India. This was phenomenal exaggeration which has n ...

By Dennis J. Bernstein In early March, the U.S. and South Korea launched an expanded set of war games on the Korean Peninsula, prompting concerns in some circles that the military exercises might touch off an escalation of tensions with North Korea. Christine Hong, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, worried that the U.S. “was lurching towards war” since “the military exercises that t ...

By PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Just a few days back, I was really stunned rather shocked when I overheard someone at a roadside restaurant convincing vehemently his fellows that the army would never let Nawaz League wins with simple majority. I stopped there and asked the person why he thought so. He simply said he got the impression through media. I could comment nothing. Do we really enjoy being in a state of ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Uno upheld Pakistan stance and  rejected an Indian argument  of diminishing  the role of United Nations Military Observers Group in India Pakistan (UNMOGIP),   ceasefire along the Line of Control in Indian occupied Kashmir, has been overtaken by the 1972 bilateral Simla agreement, Pakistan  Ambassador Masood Khan also confirmed that “No bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan has o ...

By Balbir Singh Sooch Or; The mindset is troubling as the facts about the mindset are enshrined in the article, ‘Sanjay Dutt’s punishment & Hindutva mindset’. That 'Pardon won't be easy for Sanjay Dutt': WHY? Why not to satisfy the collective conscience of the society in case of Sanjay Dutt by pardoning him? There should not be any hitch and the restriction should also not come in the way to pardon Sanj ...

By  Bassam Javed It all started in 1939 when Lord Linlithgow, the British Viceroy, declared that India had officially entered into World War II. This war proclamation was done without taking Congress or the Muslim League into confidence. Later, when he talked to political parties on the issue, he failed to garner Congress and Muslim League’s support for the war effort. Britain, to win support of these two m ...