By Sajjad Shaukat With the passage of more than 70 days, the prevailing political turmoil in Pakistan has deepened, as protesting groups of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) by Dr. Tahirul Qadri have continued AZADI (Freedom) and INQILAB (Revolution) marches, observing sit-ins at capital city of Islamabad. Although Tahirul Qadri has ended his sit-in at Islama ...

By Ali Sukhanver Are we trying to disfigure the actual form and shape of the message of Islam; this question really becomes agonizingly painful to me whenever I try to go deep into Allama Iqbal’s concept of the Muslim Community; and this question compels me ponder over the other side of the picture. Allama Iqbal was of the opinion that the Muslims living all over the world belong to one community, they obey ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary general, World Kashmir Awareness Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been / To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed....  --lyrics by Jimmy Page from the song Kashmir, performed by Led Zeppel ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat                           27th of October is celebrated every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the people of Jammu and Kashmir as the Black Day, because, in gross violation to law and ‘Partition Plan of the Indian Sub-continent’, India forcibly landed its military in princely State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on 27 October 1947. On July 19, 1947, m ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Within four months, clearing more than 80 percent areas in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan’s Armed Forces have almost defeated the ferocious militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has rapidly been achieving its objectives. Present different war between Pakistan’s Armed Forces and the TTP insurgents is simply a ‘clash of wills’ between two ...

By Ali Sukhanver  Just a few days back, David Swanson, a well known American journalist and a human rights activist penned down an article, ‘Again the Peace Prize Not for Peace.’ The topic of this article is awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yusafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. He says in this article, ‘According to Alfred Nobel's will the Nobel Peace Prize must go to the person who has done the be ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat           By setting aside the principles of nuclear deterrence, intensity in the Indian unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB), which killed several persons since October 6, this year inside Pakistan, is alarming for peace-loving countries of South Asia including those of the world. Calling for restraining its forces from constant violations of the ce ...

 By Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                      There had been a heart wrenching  story of mass suicides by Indian Punjab farmers(7000 up to now) under the burden of unpaid debt  of state and private lenders, in an Indian magazine(The Week, August 2014) sometime ago. Besides the vast scale of human tragedy and stupendous official apathy what was most striking was the fact that a major canal tha ...