Daily `the News’ has published a report under the caption `Stable Pakistan best for India’ says US President Barack Obama called on India on November 7, 2010 to bolster peace efforts with Pakistan that have floundered since the 2008 Mumbai attacks as the relations are crucial to bring peace in the war against terror in [...]
Yesterday’s India is today’s South Asia but today’s `Incredible India’ is one of the wonders of all funny things or curious mix of unintelligible practices. New Delhi’s ruling hierarchy which is constitional Jim-Crow style plutocratic rule or elective dictatorship is known as democracy. Like me many wonder, why it does not claim India as one [...]
WHILE the worst-ever monsoon floods-2010 that displaced 21 million people and left the frontline US-ally in the lurch against al-Qaeda, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is escalating the frequency of suicide bombings all across Pakistan. During the holy month of Ramadan when hostilities against each other are temporarily suspended, the spate of suicide bombings is casting [...]
Every Pakistani celebrates the independence day every year, enjoying the virtues of liberty with their families but there are perhaps a few who spare sometime to look back and just ask few pertinent questions, from themselves, what does liberty or freedom mean, what cost did we pay? What freedom demands from a nation and its [...]
After ruthless and indiscriminate attacks on the security forces and police stations, it is would not be wrong to infer that the followers of the Mao’s movement are rapidly increasing. According to a recent study, Naxalite groups are busy extending their influence, with rough estimates about their strength suggesting a number running into tens of [...]
Pakistan continues to be in the eyes of storm since last two decades, when the West started closely monitoring our nuclear pursuit or capability. Pakistan continued to remain under the sanction under the Pressler amendment. After the Indian nuclear explosion and Pakistan’s `tit for tat’ detonation a new debate on the signing of CTBT was [...]
According to the harbingers of `Aman ki Asha’ Indian troops martyred at least 33 innocent Kashmiri people including four children during the spate of recent interstate terror campaign in June 2010. Earlier it was said that Indian security forces killed 15 Kashmiri, in protest over the murder of 17-year old young boy, on June 11, [...]
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
The true danger to liberty - when it is nibbled away for expedience by parts
Edmund Burke
According to a news item dated July 18, 2010, Daily Dawn revealed that President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Foreign office to [...]
Did you imagine how one feels when his job is lost, one’s parents, sisters or children are murdered in front of their eyes, their lands or homes are forcibly occupied and one is compelled to leave all his belonging and sets on a journey without any conveyance - empty-handed, not knowing what would be their [...]
Kashmir, a home of roughly 95% Muslims and a paradise on earth has a long history of serfdom since last two centuries. After a conspiratorial deal, struck between ruling British imperialists and the Sikhs, Maharaja Ghulab Singh succeeded as the first Dogra Kashmir ruler in 1848 after pay hefty amount of 7.5 millions. After taking [...]
