By Asif Haroon Raja Global war on terror was launched by the US under George Bush and its western allies to make the world peaceful but made a mess of everything. Today the world has become a dangerous place to live since no corner of the world is safe from terrorism. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East (ME) as a whole and parts of North Africa have suffered the most and are still in the vortex of chaos. Ira ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they started accusing Pak Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. The high officials and media of their countries not only blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, but also presumed th ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain, and a man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked, “When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?” Perhaps the simple answer to that is that it will occur when power is distributed among men in such a way that it cannot be abused ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Mosharraf Zaidi in his article “Lynch mobs in India: lessons for Pakistan” in The New dated October 6, 2015 after briefly highlighting the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri (UP) on suspicions that he had eaten beef and also mentioning ongoing Indian aggression along the LoC in Kashmir has rightly pointed out that germs of religious extremism and intolerance are present on both sides of the d ...

نغمہ حبیب اللہ تعالیٰ نے اپنے دوست ابراہیم ؑ سے بیٹے کی قربانی مانگی باپ نے بیٹے سے اپنے خواب کا ذکر کیا اور سراپا فرماں بردار پسر ا سما عیل ؑ نے باپ کی ہمت بندھائی اور تاریخ انسانی کے اِس عظیم واقعے نے جنم لیا اور رب کریم نے اپنے دوست کی عظیم قربانی کی یاد کو زندہ رکھنے کے لیے اسے اپنے محبوبﷺ کی اُمت پر فرض قرار دیا یعنی دوست کی قربانی کو محبوب پر بھی لاگو کر دیا۔قربانی مسلمانوں پر فرض بھی کر دی اور اسے ان ...

By  Ali Sukhanver Terrorism is a menace which could engulf the whole world if not timely taken care of. In other words the war against terrorism is not for the betterment of some individual or for the benefit of some particular group, it is for the safer and brighter future of the whole world. Though this war against terrorism was started by America but at present there is no America anywhere in this war; i ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Military thinkers agree that although the physical force will determine the type and scale of war, yet it is the will to fight or moral force which determines the outcome of war. Clausewitz puts it this way, “One might say that the physical force seems little more than the wooden hilt, while moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon.” In his book, “Fighting Power: German and U. ...

نغمہ حبیب کاش بھارت پاکستان کا ہمسایہ نہ ہوتا یا اگر ہوتا تو وہ اپنے ہمسایوں کے ساتھ مہذب انداز میں رہنے کا طریقہ جانتا اور کاش کہ برطانیہ جاتے ہوئے کشمیر کا مسئلہ اپنے پیچھے چھوڑ کر نہ جاتا۔کشمیر جغرافیائی اور مذہبی لحاظ سے پاکستان کا قدرتی حصہ ہے لیکن بھارت اس پر زبردستی قبضہ کیے ہوئے ہے اور اپنی آزادی کی خاطر لڑنے والوں کو انتہائی سخت اور ظالمانہ طریقے سے کچلنے میں مصروف ہے اور انہیں دہشت گرد قرار دیتا ہ ...