By Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                      There had been a heart wrenching  story of mass suicides by Indian Punjab farmers(7000 up to now) under the burden of unpaid debt  of state and private lenders, in an Indian magazine(The Week, August 2014) sometime ago. Besides the vast scale of human tragedy and stupendous official apathy what was most striking was the fact that a major canal tha ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Nine lac cusec high flood water tide of River Chenab leaving behind miseries, destructions, deaths and after rocking the provinces of Punjab and Sindh has now entered into the Arabian Sea. On 3 October 2014, while addressing the International Donors Conference in Islamabad, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has shown concern over the continuous depleting economy due to flood 2014, internally dis ...

By Rida Zaheer RAWALPINDI: According to ISPR, Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) killed four civilians and three others d injured on Eid Day.  (BSF) opened fire near the Sialkot working boundary when these innocent family preparing for their Eid Celebrations. The dead included Salima Bibi, 10-year-old Adeel Ahmed, four-year-old Hamad Ahmed from Dhamala village and 65-year-old Abdul Razzak from Tulsipur vil ...

  By  Sajjad Shaukat                                                             One the one side, Indian new government led by the fundamentalist party BJP’s leader and Prime Minister Narindra Modi is deliberately trying to divert attention of international community from the Kashmir dispute, on the other, Kashmiri leaders and Pakistan have been keeping this issue in limelight. In this regard, terming the ...

By Asif Haroon Raja In his recent telephonic address Altaf Hussain recalled the 1992 military operation in Karachi and the Jinnahpur issue. Since he affixed me to the Jinnahpur conspiracy, I feel it necessary to refresh the memories of the readers and put the record straight. Law and order situation in urban and rural Sindh that was deteriorating for some years because of rural-urban ethnic divide worsened ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The already disturbed security situation in the Middle East took a new turn in the wake of emergence of Islamic State of Iraq & Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS) from nowhere. In a short period it has emerged as the most powerful group in the world in terms of military strength and financial resources. After capturing several parts of Syrian territory in northern Aleppo Province in 2013, the I ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                     With the passage of 30 days, the prevailing political crisis in Pakistan has deepened, as protesting groups of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) by Dr. Tahirul Qadri continue AZADI (Freedom) and INQILAB (Revolution) marches, observing sit-ins at capital city of Islamabad. The ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that in international politics, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud and falsehood which become the principles of political morality. They follow these tactics in order to obtain the interests of their countries. But, in case of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has been acting upon these tec ...