Asif Haroon Raja Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had nurtured the dream of independent Bengal from early days. He and his henchmen got in touch with Indian intelligence agencies and during one of the meetings in Agartala in November 1963, finalized the plan to detach East Pakistan from rest of Pakistan. Under the garb of remedying political and economic grievances of East Pakistan, he formulated six points formula an ...

Asif Haroon Raja India’s four-fold caste system which tears apart its social fabric and divides people into warring groups is a unique case in world history. Brahmans insist that castes are divinely sanctioned and cannot be changed or abrogated. The system devised by the Brahmans gives them the divine right to rule, to plunder wealth of lower castes. Latter are destined to remain subservient to higher caste ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat During his recent visit to New Delhi, and after meeting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang said that the two emerging Asian economies were going to enhance cooperation. No doubt, Beijing wants cordial relationship with New Delhi. But India which apparently emphasizes mutual cooperation with China, showing lethargic approach in the solution of border ...

 By Rajeesh Six years after the beautiful ingenue burst into mainstream Indian cinema as a Hindi Lolita alongside Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachhan, the Londoner was found dead in her Mumbai flat this week - a victim, apparently, of depression fuelled by thwarted ambition. In a country where women die cruel and preventable deaths every day, the demise of a glamorous "outsider" - allegedly by her own hand - ...

Sikh organisations delivered a Memorandum to 10 Downing Street on 6 June 2013, on the 29th anniversary of the Indian army attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984 . The Memorandum sought a reconsideration of UK foreign policy towards India in the light of India's recent steps towards hanging Sikh prisoners Balwant Singh Rajoana and Professor Devinderpal Singh Bhullar. Characterising those moves ...

By Zaheerul Hassan U.S and her allies tried hard to remove Assad regime with the help of 10% rebels. They   not only terribly failed in to bring any change but also losing public support of the masses. Despite wholehearted efforts,  USSR , China and many other countries started condemning American supported in human actions against the public. Visible increase in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad has ...

By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets produced Jihadis in Pakistan. Most of the Jihadis who took part in Afghan Jihad were from FATA and some parts of settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) like Malakand. Since Jihadis came from other Muslim countries as well, camaraderie developed among them. A small force of about 500-700 from Saudi Arabia under Osama bin Laden supported by CIA also took active pa ...

 Asif Haroon Raja From the book by Basant Chaterjee (Inside Bangladesh Today) we now know that Pundit Nehru had been scheming since August 1947 to reclaim East Bengal and to make it an integral part of Indian Union. Current Bangladesh PM and daughter of late Mujib, Sheikh Hasina Wajid claimed, as reported on 8 March 2010, that Mujib planned separation from Pakistan in 1969 in London. Somehow she didn't make ...