By Asif Haroon Raja When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 and took over power, Indian influence in Afghanistan waned. Consequently, India in league with Iran and Russia started supporting Northern Alliance (NA) comprising Afghan Uzbeks, Afghan Tajiks and Afghan Hazaras, which retained control over Panjsher Valley in the north. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and UAE recognized the Taliban regime while the US maint ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The Army and paramilitary forces are fighting a guerrilla war against home based militants in the northwest since 2002 without a break. The militants are Islamists waging an ideological war to establish Islamic Caliphate. They neither believe in Pakistan’s constitution nor in democracy saying these are of western model and are anti-Islamic. They want to impose their brand of Sharia which ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Every one knows that besides facing multi-faceted problems like acute financial crisis, unemployment, so¬c¬ial inequities, lack of security, lack of sound educational base, least technological prowess, loadshading of electricity and gas in wake of continuous acts of terrorism, Pakistan is also coping with external intrigues which are posing serious challenges to  the people as well as the ...

By Muhammad Daim Fazil If you go through daily newspapers of recent days, you will discover one frequent connotation, however, with dissimilar arguer, and that is “Constitution of the country is based on Islamic values and no law can be enforced other than Quran and Hadith”. People read and move to next headline but nobody has bothered to ponder on this statement. Even some religious scholars have bluntly s ...

By Zaheerul Hassan What is Arab Spring The ‘Arab Spring’ appeared in the Arab World in December 2010 and covered all most entire Arab World in 2011. However, Egypt has emerged as the most iconic manifestation of it and gave jolt to the leading and powerful nation in the ‘Arab World’. It also shaken the monarchism, hit the nerve centre and forced the rulers either to start with democracy or spend more on the ...

Unfolding of the pages of united India  history always give me a hope of shining future whenever  I read the state of motivation of Muslims which  converted them into a Nation in the shortest possible time and ultimately  reached to its apex point  of getting Independence on 14 August 1947. Further turning of pages of history, I felt that we achieved the objective of independence due to the presence of (a) ...

By  Sohail Parwaz It was back in October 2003 when a young Palestinian girl, Hinadi, unexpectedly changed into a detached and quiet girl. Her routine was also gradually altering. This innocent girl happened to be a law student. She did not talk much now. However, reciting the Holy Quran after the fajr prayers became her routine. She would return home quite late but her parents, who had blind faith in their ...

By Ali Sukhanver More than 20 people died and more than 200 poling stations burnt to ashes; that is what happened there in Bangladesh on the Election Day. The opposition party BNP remained all aloof from the election process Today Bangladesh is passing through the ever worst phase of its history. The recent elections have changed the peaceful scenario of this heaven-like country into a blazing inferno. Mahf ...