By Asif Haroon Raja Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of Britain in British India was instrumental in sowing the seeds of Kashmir dispute and leaving this as a festering wound and an unfinished agenda of Partition, which has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations for nearly seven decades and made South Asia a nuclear flashpoint. But for the treacherous grant of Muslim heavy Gurdaspur to India, the latter had no ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past wars, the arena of war has changed. In the ongoing era, besides subversive tactics, non-lethal weapons like propaganda can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target country. In this regard, overtly, US high officials state that they seek stability in Pakistan, but covertly, they continue to destabilize this lonely ‘nuclearised’ country in the Islamic World. With ...

                                      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی اتنے غیر موثر‘ بے بس‘ کمزور‘ عاجز ولاچار حکمران چاہے اُن کی حکمرانی بادشاہت کی ہو‘ جمہوری ہو یا ڈکٹیٹر شپ کی ہو‘ اُن کا طرزِ حکمرانی جیسا تیسا ہی ہو،لیکن جتنے ڈھیلے ڈھالے اور ہمیشہ اپنے ہاتھ ملتے حکمران ہمیں میسر آئے ہیں یا ملتے رہے ہیں شائد ہی تاریخ ِ عالم میں کہیں آپ نے اِن جیسوں کا تذکرہ پڑھا ہوگا؟ اتفاقاً اگرکہیں کسی تاریخ کے صفحات پر ہمیں ایسے حک ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is burning in the flames of war on terror since 2003. Fratricidal war has claimed 55, 973 human lives and the numbers of injured run into hundreds of thousands. This appalling figure of casualties owing to over 5000 bomb blasts, hundreds of suicide and terrorist attacks surpasses the total fatalities suffered in the 1948, 1965 and 1971 wars and local conflicts with India. While ...

      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی سنا ہوگا آپ نے ’تنگ نظری اور انسان دشمنی کا چولی دامن کا ساتھ ہے‘مطلب یہ کہ کیسے مان لیا جائے کہ تنگ نظری شدت اختیار کرئے اور وہ انسانوں کی دشمنی پر پہنچ کر ختم نہ ہو بغور جائزہ لیں تو آپ فوراً یہ نتیجہ اخذ کرنے میں دیر نہیں لگائیں گے ماضی بعید میں حال میں یہ تعصب اور تنگ نظری ایسی وحشیانہ وبائیں تسلیم کی گئی ہیں ایسی جن وباؤں کا شکار ہوکر انسان پہلے تنگ نظر ہوا پھر یکایک تعصب میں م ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                       Recently, propaganda intensified that the militant outfit Daish or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has its presence in Pakistan. Besides some newspapers and media anchors of some TV channels also misperceived that ISIS has penetrated into Pakistan. In fact, they made their observation on the basis of media announcements by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ...