By Usman Khalid Pakistan has elected a new President – Mamnoun Hussain. Memnun is a Turkish word which means ‘grateful’. Memnun Oldum is ‘Thank You” in Turkish. But memnun is more than a word; it describes a personality. I served in CENTO in Turkey for more than three years (1966-70) and was inspired by the Turkish institution of ‘gratitude’. During the First World War, the Muslims in India were the subject ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  Pakistan PM has presided high level military-civil meeting in connection with John Kerry visit who arrived in Islamabad on 31 July 2013. US Sectary of State John Kerry has arrived in Pakistan for two days visit on 31 July, 2013. He is the most senior first US official is visiting the country since Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan as new prime minister after May elections. During his ...

World Sikh Council - America Region (WSC-AR) P.O. Box 3635, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Phone: 888-340-1702 Fax: 888-398-1875 E-mail: contact@worldsikhcouncil.org Web: www.worldsikhcouncil.org                                                     July 28, 2013 Contact: Kavneet Singh, Secretary General, WSC-AR, contact@worldsikhcouncil.org, 888-340-1702 The World Sikh Council – America Region (WSC-AR) participat ...

Asif Haroon Raja Hardly few weeks have lapsed since the departure of the most corrupt government in the history of Pakistan that some writers like Imran Khan (‘A season for negotiations’ in The News dated July 17, 2013) have obliquely started defending the doings of the parasitic regime. He argues that the previous government failed to provide security to the people because of the failure of military and se ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat While taking suo motu notice of a private TV programme which did not point out other side and facts by raising the alleged land corruption of Rs. 40 billion in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI), a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry ordered on July 19, this year to freeze all the bank accounts of Defence ...

Srinagar, July 27: (GNS) Expressing shock over abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by Village Defense Committee (VDC) members of Kishtwar, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanded immediate disarmament and dissolution of VDCs and severe punishment for those VDCs involved in the heinous crime. “The aim of these committees is nothing other than to suppress Muslim community in ...

  A MESSAGE TO MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS DO NOT EVER FORGET YOUR SIKH HISTORY FROM THE SIKH POINT OF VIEW  Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)    Bibiji and Khalsa ji:    Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,  Waheguru ji ki Fateh!    The Guru Khalsa Panth alias the Sikhs' PUNJAB, Sikh Nation, which had been a 'Sovereign and Secular' of South Aisa, of a Sikh Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, 1849.    This 'Sovereign and S ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to ISPR press release a Pakistani soldier embraced Shahdat (martyred) and another seriously injured in "unprovoked" firing by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir. The incident took place on Rawlakot’s Nezapir sector near the LoC at about 10:30 am on Saturday. Soldier Asim Iqbal was killed in the firing and soldier Naik Mohammad K ...