By Ram Puniyani This January 2020, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. The phenomenon of this exodus had been due to the communalization of militancy in Kashmir in the decade of 1980s. While no ruli ...

By Arundhati Roy Courtesy:- The Caravan magazine February 13, 2020 This is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature, instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. Arundhati Roy is the first Indian writer invited to deliver it. Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its one hundred and thirty-second year. When I received the invitation, I scrolled down the list of pr ...

نغمہ حبیب اس وقت ہزاروں لاکھوں پاکستانی دنیا کے دوسرے ملکوں میں مقیم ہیں اور اپنے اپنے میدان کار میں بہترین کام کرکے پاکستان کے لیے نام کما رہے ہیں۔ کئی ڈاکٹرز،انجینئرز،بزنس مین اور سائنسدان خود کو اپنی خداداد صلاحیتوں اور شبانہ روز محنتوں سے ان ملکوں کے بہترین پروفیشنل ثابت کرچکے ہیں بلکہ سیاست میں بھی سرگرم عمل ہیں اور یورپ کے کئی ممالک کی پار لیمنٹوں تک پہنچ چکے ہیں۔ ان محب وطن پاکستانیوں نے وہاں کئی فلا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat n the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan economy has most of the time been at the brink of collapse and was repeatedly bailed out by world financial institutions. Whenever the economy showed signs of progress and climbed up to reach the stage of take-off, it crashed mysteriously. Our economic managers had to make a fresh start from a scratch. They have been playing snake and ladder game and never bothered to carry out ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In order to pay homage to the initiator of the Kashmir’s struggle, the 11th of February is being observed as the martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Bhat who was hanged by the then Indian regime on February 11, 1984 in Tihar Jail as the reprisal expressed by New Delhi. He was hanged to take the revenge of the killing of an Indian Diplomat by some unknown organization claiming to be Kashmiri. ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan Wuhan city, capital of Hubei Province in China with a population of 11 million people and one of the 10 largest cities in China, was suddenly struck by a deadly virus called Corona. 11 cities in the near vicinity of Wuhan got affected the most by the virus and have been closed. Death toll has soared to 490, with 24,300 infected by virus across China, and ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom of Muhammad Afzal Guru is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament attack case ...