In recorded history Pashtoons have always been a tribal society. Ahmed Shah Abdali is an example as he failed to modernize Pashtoon society as he had all the means at his disposal to do so, although he died at a much younger period. The British came and kept the Tribal instant as a counter liver [...]
Drone and suicide bomber are the new facets of contemporary warfare; representing the concepts of ‘bomb without man’ and ‘man as a bomb’. Moreover, all nuclear states have a tendency to indulge in proxy wars through non-state actors and third party state actors. These warfare related innovations have altered the conventional time space calculus; thus [...]
Education has always been used as an effective tool for change and it helped the nations to achieve for what they longed for centuries. A cursory glance will reveal that in today’s world the accessories that a common person uses are invented by the army of englishmen. Muslim Ummah on the contrary remembers it’s centuries [...]
War is gruesome regardless of time and place. Civilians are the most suffered ones. There is one thing which is called as collateral damage and then there is another thing which is systematic use of violence, torture and power to subjugate the people.
The United Nations says torture is practiced systematically in some Afghan [...]
The time has come when our establishment has to decide as what they actually need regarding their policy towards the Afghanistan. Afghanistan has long suffered due to the foreign occupations and also with the foreign interference in which Pakistan has put its fair share.
Pakistani people have sacrificed a lot due to Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants are [...]
All the US proxies they carry a sell by date and Pakistan seems to have spent that time.
Pakistan is a peace loving democratic Islamic country and has taken US in friendship on nation to nation equality bases but for the US obnoxious and cannibalistic behavior and threatening to attack its sovereignty in recent days has [...]
We in Pakistan kinda enjoy the different antics of the United States. Probably you won’t find such an example in the modern history where a superpower is so much frustrated by a country as the US is with Pakistan. It’s not a new thing by the way. It’s has become habitual, second nature and just [...]
Sir Winston Churchill had said war is such a serious issue it could not be left alone on armed forces. It is the political wisdom that rules supreme. This wisdom foresees 10 years ahead keeping in mind 100 years back.
With the elimination of Osama Bin Laden a system has been dismantled by USA. Some pundits [...]
As a student of history of relations between Muslims and Christians, the headlines have made grim readings for me personally, as I genuinely feel that there is a connection between both traditions of the Followers of the Books of Abraham.
56 killed in a Baghdad church and continuous attacks on Christian neighbourhoods of Iraq, Iraq’s Christian [...]
Soon after the incident of 9/11; the American adventurists, took Musharraf by surprise to ask him to become their ally. Reportedly, without giving a second thought Musharraf opted to become a US proxy to serve US interests in this region. But soon after, it was realized; that somehow, he was proving to be a tough [...]
