نغمہ حبیب بھارت بیس کروڑ مسلمانوں کا ملک ہے لیکن اس ملک میں اِن بیس کروڑ مسلمانوں کی حیثیت بس اتنی ہے کہ جس کا دل چاہا جہاں چاہا انہیں نشانہ بنا لیا جُرم کو ئی ہو نہ ہووہ مجرم بن جاتے ہیں اور ان کے خلاف کام کرنے والے ہیرو۔بی جے پی کا نریندرا مودی ہو یا کانگریس کی اندرا گاندھی ان کے عظیم ہونے کے لیے یہی کافی ہے کہ وہ مسلمانوں کے قاتل ہیں چاہے وہ مسلمان بھارت کے اندر کا ہو یا پاکستان کا۔ان کو ووٹ ہی اسی بات ک ...

REVIEW BY PROF. DR. MAQSOOD JAFRI A Lone Long walk is a collection of the tales told by a creative and fertile mind Tahir Mehmood. He is the Chief Editor monthly Hilal. He has kindly presented this rare literary gift to me. I feel honoured and humbled. These twenty eight tales are the saga of life, love, and patriotism. The book is so interesting, inspiring, and insightful that I intuitively felt to extensi ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal Living without a strategy No faith sustains with its conceptual originality, vision and mission in absence of its core institutions. In such deprivation, not only the faith but also those who are adherents to the faith face an existential threat. Communism ceased to survive as a significant ideology after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse of Asoka’s rule brought an en ...

نغمہ حبیب اس وقت دنیا ایک ایسی آفت اور وباء کا سامنا کر رہی ہے جس کے لیے وہ ہر گز تیار نہ تھی اور نہ ہی اس کی ابتداء ہونے پر اُن ملکوں نے کوئی خاص توجہ دی جہاں یہ دیر سے پہنچی اور یوں اس وائرس کو کھل کھیلنے کا موقع مل گیااور یہ مسلسل تباہی مچاتا چلا جا رہا ہے۔ دنیا کا کوئی ملک چاہے بڑا ہو یا چھوٹا اس سے محفوظ نہیں اور اس نے وہاں کم یا زیادہ اپنے اثرات ضرور مرتب کیے ہیں اورتقریباََ دنیا کے ہر ملک میں اموات ہ ...

From the Self-Quarantined ‘Solitude’ A Soldier’s ‘Lone Long Walk’ [caption id="attachment_17934" align="alignright" width="275"] Soldier - Siachen Sector[/caption] By F Z Khan Outside my self-imposed solitude, the fear of coronavirus has gripped, around the globe, as the demon has started wreaking havoc across continents. Messages on social media and talk shows on TV have added dread and scare to further sp ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Owing to its fragile economy, after the 9/11 tragedy, Pakistan joined the US-led Global War on Terror (GWoT) and was granted the status of non-NATO ally by America due the early successes, achieved by Pakistan’s Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) against the Al-Qaeda militants. But, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance ...

Shared by Ram Puniyani Posted by Zaheerul Hassan The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are burning midnight oil yet again to understand the deeper causative factors of the same. One of the neglected aspects of analysis of communal violence has been the one related to prevalent factor of Caste in Indian society. Caste is in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Coronavirus pandemic also named as COVID-19 which is, rapidly, spreading across the world has killed more than 22,000 people and infected over 510,000 people despite lockdowns in many countries, especially Western states, putting over 1.3 billion in self-isolation. After affecting 200 countries, the disease is enveloping new territories. In Spain and Italy, more persons have died due to CO ...