By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League (AL)  Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by exploiting her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests, especially against Pakistan. Two persons have been killed in Bangladesh in the deadly clashes erupted in the country on January 5, t ...

 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 ...

 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 ...

                                                                                        (Part I) By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai It is nothing less than astounding that intelligent men who are charged with the responsibility of leading a country cannot comprehend that spending billions of dollars to maintain possession of a very small disputed territory to its north with millions of troops at the expense of their ow ...

               نغمہ حبیب پشاور میں سکول پر حملہ ہوا معصوم بچوں کا خون بہایا گیا اور بے رحم وبے دریغ بہایا گیا محاورتاََ نہیں حقیقتا کلیوں کو روندا گیا جو بچے شہید ہوئے ان کے والدین،بہن بھائیوں اورعزیز رشتہ داروں کا تو جو حال ہے وہ تو وہی جان سکتے ہیں ہم تو صرف ان کے صبر کے لیے دعا ہی کر سکتے ہیں کہ اللہ ان کی مدد کرے کہ ان کی مدد انسان کے بس کی بات نہیں۔ اُس دن مائیں اپنے بچوں کو ڈھونڈتی ہوئی اپنے آپ سے بے ...

By Asif Haroon Raja It is being generally opined that repeated takeovers by the military blunted growth of democracy and became the major cause of Pakistan’s sad saga. It must however not be forgotten that all martial laws and military takeovers were legalized by the higher courts and backed by the politicians in opposition and rejoiced by the people. But for the deplorable conduct of the politicians, the A ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                                                                       Although various kinds of terror attacks have been conducted by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups in the past few years, yet the massacre of 132 school children at Army Public School and College in Peshawar on December 16, this year prov ...