By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is burning in the flames of war on terror since 2003. Fratricidal war has claimed 55, 973 human lives and the numbers of injured run into hundreds of thousands. This appalling figure of casualties owing to over 5000 bomb blasts, hundreds of suicide and terrorist attacks surpasses the total fatalities suffered in the 1948, 1965 and 1971 wars and local conflicts with India. While ...

      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی سنا ہوگا آپ نے ’تنگ نظری اور انسان دشمنی کا چولی دامن کا ساتھ ہے‘مطلب یہ کہ کیسے مان لیا جائے کہ تنگ نظری شدت اختیار کرئے اور وہ انسانوں کی دشمنی پر پہنچ کر ختم نہ ہو بغور جائزہ لیں تو آپ فوراً یہ نتیجہ اخذ کرنے میں دیر نہیں لگائیں گے ماضی بعید میں حال میں یہ تعصب اور تنگ نظری ایسی وحشیانہ وبائیں تسلیم کی گئی ہیں ایسی جن وباؤں کا شکار ہوکر انسان پہلے تنگ نظر ہوا پھر یکایک تعصب میں م ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS' Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a senior fellow with the Counter Terro ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The enlightening and informative article, ‘SAARC summit and the Kashmir problem’ written by a seasoned Saudi diplomat, Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi (Saudi Gazette, December 3, 2014) needs some observations from a Kashmiri perspective. I totally agree with Dr. Al-Ghamdi that “it is high time for the leaders of both countries (India and Pakistan) to take bold and serious decisions to resolve this ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The cowardly act of Taliban against innocent students of Army Public School and College of Peshawar is completely intolerable. Taliban carnage of   149 people, including 134 children, lady principal and teacher are totally condemnable and proved an example of barbarism. Meanwhile, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif rushed to Kabul and warned Afghan authorities to take decisive action agains ...

               نغمہ حبیب پشاور میں سکول پر حملہ ہوا معصوم بچوں کا خون بہایا گیا اور بے رحم وبے دریغ بہایا گیا محاورتاََ نہیں حقیقتا کلیوں کو روندا گیا جو بچے شہید ہوئے ان کے والدین،بہن بھائیوں اورعزیز رشتہ داروں کا تو جو حال ہے وہ تو وہی جان سکتے ہیں ہم تو صرف ان کے صبر کے لیے دعا ہی کر سکتے ہیں کہ اللہ ان کی مدد کرے کہ ان کی مدد انسان کے بس کی بات نہیں۔ اُس دن مائیں اپنے بچوں کو ڈھونڈتی ہوئی اپنے آپ سے بے ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                                                                       Although various kinds of terror attacks have been conducted by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups in the past few years, yet the massacre of 132 school children at Army Public School and College in Peshawar on December 16, this year prov ...