by Ali Sukhanver February usually brings a very pleasant weather for the people all over the world but this February proved very unlucky for the people of Pakistan. More than hundred innocent ones became victim to brutal terrorist activities; countless injured; hundreds of families were pushed to the hell of helplessness and a lot of damage was caused to the public and private properties. And this injustice ...

By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal The disconnection The most important agenda of Islam is to connect humans with their Almighty Creator. For a human, nothing is more important than this connectivity with his Supreme Lord. Whether a man will reach heaven or hell is solely decided on this single factor. The basis of this Divine connectivity of a believer is the perfect congruity of his vision, mission and objective w ...

نغمہ حبیب 1979 میں سویت یونین نے افغانستان پر حملہ کیا اور اس کی فوجیں افغانستان کے اندر داخل ہو گئیں تو ہزاروں لاکھوں افغان مہاجرین ہجرت کرکے پاکستان میں داخل ہوئے اور پشاور میں پشاور کی اپنی آبادی سے زیادہ افغانی نظر آنے لگے۔ پاکستانیوں نے انتہائی کھلے دل سے ان افغان مہمانوں کو خوش آمدید کہا اور در حقیقت ہجرت مدینہ کی یاد تازہ ہوگئی۔ افغانیوں کی تین نسلیں یہاں جوان ہوئیں اور پچھلے اڑتیس سال میں پیدا ہونے ...

By Zaheerul Hassan At least 108 innocent people embraced shahdit (martyred) and more than 414 injured in eight attacks of different areas in Pakistan. In four days’ time only, the terrorists have hit shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sehwan town (Sindh), Police leadership in Lahore, Judges van in Peshawar, Political Agent office of Mohmand Agency and Army convoy in the Awaran area of Balochistan. In ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has also been extended to other provinces of the country. While, Pakistan’s law-enforcing agencies, especially primary intelligence agency, ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of ter ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist leader Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevai ...

BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI No handouts, no whitewash! [caption id="attachment_15167" align="alignright" width="455"] Pakistani residents cast their votes at a polling station in Islamabad on May 11, 2013. Pakistanis queued up to vote in landmark elections, defying Taliban attacks to cast their ballots in polls marking a historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo c ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 13 people were killed and 85 injured on February 13, this year when a suicide bomber struck outside the Punjab Assembly on the Mall Road in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan during a peaceful protest of the chemists and pharmacists against a new law. Seven police officials, including two senior officers—SSP Operations Zahid Gondal of Punjab Police and DIG Traffic Lahore Capt (r ...