By Sajjad Shaukat The Martyrs’ Day, known as Youme Shuhada-e-Kashmir is observed on July 13 every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the Kashmiris to pay homage to 22 Kashmiris who were martyred in 1931 to free Kashmir from the brutalities of despotic Dogra rulers. The day is the milestone in the history of Kashmiri struggle against foreign occupation. However, the history ...

By Ali Sukhanver ‘We won’t let you visit the Kashmir valley because we have turned it into a blazing hell of death and horror’, it must have been the honest response to every request presented to the Indian authorities by the international human rights caretakers for the visit of Indian Occupied Kashmir. And this situation is not a new one; even ten years back, the response must have been the same. I rememb ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism is based on symbolic strategy to communicate connotative meanings by conveying the message to different segments of society and administrative echelons that terrorists are powerfully dangerous, deadly and treacherous. Hence, the terrorists select sensitive targets like airports, women, children and lone bread-earners of a family, Police officials, judges and others representativ ...

By Rida Zaheer Argentina beat Dutch in penalties kicks and went into final of World Cup 2014. Sergio Romero became hero after saving twice as Argentina defeated the Netherlands 4-2 on penalties on Wednesday. Argentina will play third World Cup final against Germany on Sunday. The Monaco goalkeeper parried spot kicks from Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder Both sides did not able to goal in  120 minutes and match ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past wars, the arena of war has changed. In the ongoing era, lethal weapons and subversive tactics used by the terrorists including foreign support to internal entities and propaganda can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target country. The new warfare has made it difficult for the military to serve alone as the automatic dominant sphere in every war, covering all d ...

by Asif Haroon Raja Once the Soviet Empire began to crumble from within because of economic meltdown and debilitating after-effects of Afghan venture, it could no longer extend assistance to Najibullah’s regime because of which, 110,000 strong Afghan National Army fragmented into bands of militia run by warlords. Showing complete disinterest in forming a stable coalition government in Kabul and abandoning A ...

By Mian Muhammad Siddique  At last, much awaited ground and air Operation Zarbi-Azab has been launched in North Wazirastan against local and foreign terrorists. The whole nation barring two religious parties is behind the armed forces which is a good omen and will raise the morale of armed forces. The big question, however is, will the successful conclusion of the operation eliminate terrorism and extremism ...

 By Ahmed Khan The complexities of South Asia’s political and geostrategic environment drives scholars, experts and practitioners from within subcontinent and the West to share their scholarly views on the dynamics of its major component: the India-Pakistan relationship. A relook or revisit to their scholarly work in form of book, biographies and research papers gives us a broad canvas to draw a holistic pi ...