By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned Pakistani and Indian media anchors including retired high civil and military officials gathered on December 2, 2012 in New Delhi at a seminar to discuss practical solutions to the bilateral issues like Sir Creek, Siachen, Kashmir dispute etc. under the Aman Ki Asha initiative organised by The Times of India and Pakistan’s Jang Group. The move was part of the Confidence Building Me ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="224"] A Mukti Bani Commando killing Bihari muslim[/caption] Asif Haroon Raja Going through the political history of Pakistan, one is constrained to learn that till 1956 Pakistan was without a constitution and it banked upon Government of India Act as an interim instrument to govern the country. It cannot be denied that all elections held in Pakistan were rigged. The ...

Ishaal Zehra Hilarious, but true.  Government of Bangladesh, or should I say Shaikh Hasina’s government, intends to arrange the 4th phase of honouring the “Foreign Friends of Bangladesh” who supported the liberation war. The grand ceremony is on 15th December 2012 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre where Bangladesh will confer awards on 65 more foreign friends for their outstanding contributions ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat In his second tenure, it was expected that the US President Barack Obama would reassess American controversial foreign policy, especially by ceasing CIA-operated drone attacks on Pakistan. But these aerial strikes continue on Pak tribal areas. It is mentionable that Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam who visited America in August, 2012, emphatic ...

Dulce et Decorum And May You Get the Chance By Fred Reed I am a soldier. I am dirt. With Joshua I put the cities of Canaan to the sword while women screamed and tried to protect their babies. I spent long days in Nanjing butchering and butchering civilians because I enjoyed it. For I am a soldier. I am dirt. I fire-bombed Hamburg till the wind-fanned flames left nowhere to hide and the people burned screami ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan’s Foreign minister has invited leading members of the Executive Council of APHC, senior veteran pro-movement leader Syed Ali Gilani and Yasin Malik visit Pakistan from 15 to 22 December 2012. Probably, purpose behind the invitation was to take initiative and paving path for resolution of an old and burning issue of “Kashmir” through consultative process between the political lead ...

By Nivritchari The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of Bangladesh has issued a notice to the UK based newsweekly The Economist on Thursday 6 December. The tribunal’s chief Justice Nizamul Huq Nasim has directed The Economist to explain why punitive action should not be taken for interfering with the trial. The newsweekly was accused of violating the privacy of a judge by hacking in to his conversation wi ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver Do we really need guns and cannons, drones and bombs particularly when we don’t have sufficient milk and food for our innocent children, medicines for our ailing patients and books for our deserving students? Certainly not; we will have to decide what we need and what we not. The wrong choice of needs and necessities is always the basic flaw that leads a society to a catastrophic des ...