By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai If we were to judge the UN based upon its history of involvement in efforts to resolve international conflicts, the simplest answer is that it has been an enormous failure. The UN of course is a far more complex organization whose work covers such a wide range of activities that conflict resolution is really only a small aspect of its work. Nevertheless, if we consider the fact that i ...

By Raiq Qureshi Turkey has formally conveyed his decision of buying 52 Super Mushshak Aircrafts from Pakistan. While in the future we can expect that Azerbaijan will also buy couple of JF-17 thunder aircrafts. The Mushshak has been produced under the license at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra with many countries in Africa and Middle East acquiring the Pakistan version. Likely to be unveiled in early 201 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Inconsequential Western Pacts In search for security in the face of India’s belligerence and dangerous designs together with Afghanistan’s hostility, Pakistan blundered to join SEATO and CENTO in 1954 and earned the hostility of Afghanistan, former Soviet Union and China. India took these western pacts as an excuse to make a U turn on Kashmir issue. The defense pacts helped Pakistan unde ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In order to pay homage to the initiator of the Kashmir’s struggle, the 11th of February is being celebrated as the martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Bhat who was hanged by the then Indian regime on February 11, 1984 in Tihar Jail as the reprisal expressed by New Delhi. He was hanged to take the revenge of the killing of an Indian Diplomat by some unknown organization claiming to be Kashmiri ...

نغمہ حبیب دنیا کے ہر ملک میں ایسے واقعات ہوتے رہتے ہیں جب حکومت کے خلاف بھی مظاہرے ہوتے ہیں اور عمالِ حکومت کے خلاف بھی جمہوری حکومتوں میں یہ سب حقوق عام شہری کو حاصل ہوتے ہیں۔ اسی طرح قانون ہاتھ میں لیا جاتا ہے اور توڑا بھی جاتا ہے اور اس چیز کو قابو کرنے کے لیے پولیس اور قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے فعال کردار ادا کرتے ہیں۔ جرم کو ختم کرنے اور مجرم کو پکڑنے کے لیے ہی یہ ادارے بنائے جاتے ہیں اور وہ کام سب سے ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Gur is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament ...

Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Strategy teams are closeted in ‘war rooms’, hunched-hooked over computers Leading an army: Captain Amarinder Singh at a meeting in Bathinda on 30 th January 2017 (Monday). Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is in command of his campaign. 1. Sardar Manpreet Singh Badal seems looking surprisingly at the face of Captain Amarinder Singh keeping in view of and facing ‘THE POLL STRATEGIC-TA ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During and after the presidential election campaign, taking note of the US new President Donald Trump’s religious bigotry, racialism and extremist statements such as calling a “ban on Muslims entering the United States”, “Islam hate us”, opposition to the Muslim refugees, especially from Syria etc., some writers, researches and bloggers, including American politicians have called him a “cr ...