By Brig® Mehboob Qadir This may initiate a soul searching about one of the little known effects of 71 War but for the bone deaf and genetically dumb; the ones who have steadfastly refused to learn from their mistakes, are unwilling to identify the country's arch enemy and too eager to hug those who wish to see this country succumb to the level of Dalit like abject servility. After, what Mr. Modi admitted in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to control over the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, Punjab, and to arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir ...

By Asif Haroon Raja I delivered a talk on China-Pakistan Energy Corridor and its ramifications at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on May 31, 2015, chaired by Air Chief Marshal (retd) Kaleem Saadat and attended by Lt Gen (retd) Lodhi, and members both from civil and military. After the talk, there was long question/answer session followed by summing up by the Chairman. Details of presentation are covered in succeedi ...

By Ali Sukhanver Punjita Pradhan is a very well known journalist of Nepal. For the last four years she has been continuously in contact with me. A few weeks back when Nepal was passing through the ever worst phase of its life after the disastrous earthquake, I sent a mail to her to express my concern over the situation. In response to my mail, she wrote, ‘Such calamities are not new to us; we have all coura ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Pak – China economic corridor has proved a real thorn in India’s paw. Most of the analysts are of the opinion that the present wave of terrorism in Pakistan is simply a reaction of Indian disliking over the growing Pak-China relations. It is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that whole of the Pakistani nation has unanimously and no doubt very loudly condemned RAW for its inv ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan has become special arena of the different war, being waged by the security forces against the ruthless terrorists, yet country’s armed forces have capabilities to foil the terrorists’ attacks. In this respect, May 22 reminds the day when in 2011, 15 terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda attacked on the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy (Airbase), PNS ...

By Zaheerul Hassan A group of terrorists targeted innocent Ismaili individuals sitting in a Bus near Safora Churangi Karachi, and killed more than 44 and many injured when Prime Minister Nawaz sharif was chairing All Parties Conference over Pak-China Economic Corridor project on 14 May 20l5. Moreover, six police officers have become victims of target killers within a month or so. Earlier, on 16 December 201 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On May 13, this year, at least 45 people were killed and several injured after gunmen brutally opened fire on a bus of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowrangi area of Karachi. The deadly terror-attack resulted into countrywide day of mourning, closure of shops and institutes in Karachi and other areas of Sindh including a complete shutter-down strike by Ismaili community in Hunza. Wit ...