By Ishaal Zehra (Continued…) Next in line was the Soviet–Afghan War (1979 – 1989) which lasted over nine years. Stretching from December 1979 to February 1989 the war was fought by the Insurgent groups "the Mujahideen", who received aid from several Western and Muslim countries, against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. It is estimated that about 850,000–1.5 million civilians were killed in this con ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although terror-related sectarian incidents have continued in various regions of Pakistan in the past few years, yet as soon as the month of Muharram approaches, the shadows of fear and uncertainty cover the country. Similarly, these events occur throughout the year, claiming human lives, but during this month, the incidents of religious extremism increase manifolds becoming a source of sh ...

Postes By: Rida Zaheer Keansburg, New Jersey, October 19, 2015. Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, former prime minister of Azad Kashmir and ‘the Guest of Honor’ said “Kashmir Million-Man-March is being organized on October 25 in New York to pave a way for a just and durable resolution of longstanding Kashmir dispute.” Addressing a huge gathering of friends of Kashmir in Keansburg, New Jersey, he said the w ...

Washington, DC October 15, 2015: US Sikh leaders have condemned the recent Police action in Kotkapura which led to 2 deaths and several dozens injured seriously. Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education and Inderpaul Singh Gadh, Chairman of the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation laid the blame squarely on the Punjab Government of Parkash Singh Badal for mishandling of a very sensi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Coped with multiple internal and external issues and problems, the US has weak position for to the New Cold War which has begun. Although United States is the homeland of hundreds of leading think-tanks and strategic institutes, yet due to his faulty strategy, its President Barack Obama failed in waging the war of nerves, which also includes the elements of ‘hot war’ at present. In this re ...

By Ishaal Zehra The US military has offered a series of shifting explanations for the bombing raid, from initially talking about “collateral damage” to now admitting, as Obama did in his call to MSF chef Joanne Liu that the strike was a mistake. The US President Barack Obama has called the president of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 7th to apologize for the bombing of an MSF hospital in northern ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir World War 2 ended with a horrible bang; Nagasaki and Hiroshima were wiped out of existence with nuclear bombs and the devastation was of catastrophic proportions likes of which, the world had never seen before and one earnestly wishes never does again. Millions of people were simply incinerated to charcoal, buildings evaporated and whole blocks leveled like houses of sand before a ste ...

نغمہ حبیب افغانستان کے شمالی شہر قندوز پر اچانک طالبان نے حملہ کیا اور اس پر قبضہ کر لیا۔ اس سے پہلے طالبان نے جیل پر حملہ کیا اوررپورٹس کے مطابق پانچ سو قیدیوں کو چھڑا لیا یعنی اپنی طاقت میں براہ راست پانچ سو افراد کا اضافہ کیا اگر یہ کہا جائے کہ یہ حملہ اشرف غنی کی حکومت کے خلاف ایک سازش ہے تو شاید یہ غلط نہ ہو گا کیونکہ حالات و اقعات کے مطابق اس کے قوی امکانات موجود ہیں ۔اس حملے کو مبینہ طور پر ملا عبدال ...