By Sajjad Shaukat During the election campaign, the militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated groups who had accelerated their terror-activities to sabotage the elections 2013 in Pakistan failed in their nefarious designs as they did not want to see democracy to be flourished in the country. TTP which had accepted responsibly for terror-assaults on the election-sites, especially ...

 By Ali Sukhanver Though the nation is very much delighted over the continuity of democratic process in Pakistan but this feeling of joy and happiness won’t last longer if the tree of democracy does not bear the desired fruit. The list of the problems which this nation has been facing since long is not endless but it requires a lot of hard work, determination and above all a sincere will to resolve these pr ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan NEW DELHI: The Navy has been hit by yet another alleged sex scandal as the wife of a senior officer has charged her husband with forcing her to get "sexually involved" with his colleagues, prompting defence minister A K Antony to order a probe. The case has come up on a day when the defence minister asked the top brass of the Navy in its Commanders' conference to take sternest poss ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Diplomacy which is defined as an art of negotiations to resolve an issue has many meanings, if a single word is added with it. For example, shrewd diplomacy, sham diplomacy, power diplomacy, peace diplomacy etc. might be cited as example. In this regard, a Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah Haq who received serious injuries, and died on May 9, this year because he was badly beaten by an ex-Indi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The heavy mandate Nawaz Sharif’s rule came to an abrupt end after two years eight months as a result of military coup by Gen Musharraf on October 12, 1999. He was later on exiled for ten years. After 9/11, Musharraf was coerced and induced by the US and led to believe that partnership with USA would uplift Pakistan’s depressed fortunes and pave the way for prosperity. He was assured that ...

Gen Kayani’s unflinching resolve  By F Z Khan The elections this time are being directly attributed to the armed forces’ “major contribution” towards democracy. Tremendous satisfaction has been expressed by the people in general and the general election contestants in particular, both print and electronic media as well as the intelligentsia especially after the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Pervez Kay ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani prisoner dies at Chandigarh hospital at 7:15 on May 9 ,2013.  He slipped in Coma when, was beaten by Vinod Kumar, a court-martialed Indian soldier who is also serving a life term for murder. Ranjay, has also been earlier declared clinically dead by the medical board.  He was from the border village of Sialkot. According to his family Sanaullah by mistake cros ...

By Rajeesh  Left with only a few days of freedom, Sanjay Dutt reportedly feels “betrayed” by his co-stars. The Arnold Schwarzenegger of India has apparently vented his anger that Bollywood has let him down. The actor, who has been convicted for the illegal purchase of firearms from the culprits behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts, is going through a tough ordeal. He is reportedly busy these days wrapping up work ...