Sunday, March 9, 2025

Special Emphasis on Terrorism (September 2012)

Bomb BlastsEleven persons were killed and 23 others injured when an explosive-laden pick-up went off in a market in Salarzai tehsil (revenue unit) of...

The Shattered Dream

Finally, in August 1947, after a lot of campaigning, deliberations and discussions, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was able to get his Pakistan. By this...

The Jealousy Factor

Hazrat Omar when once asked as to why a particular person was abusing him replied that he was surprised because he had not done...

The One That Got Away

Ikram Sehgal's memoir reads more like a racy suspense novel instead of a gritty, soldierly chronicle and in his fore-ward to the book, Air...

Reckoning with the Past

Despite the symbolic references to the fall of Dhaka and secession of East Pakistan in our everyday politics, the tragedy appears to mean little,...

Brigadier Muhammad Usman (July 15, 1912 – July 03, 1948)

Recently, the birth centenary of Brigadier Muhammad Usman was celebrated in India. Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari and Chief of Army Staff General Bikram...

Our Democratic Farce

Democracy is a social state in which everyone must have equal rights without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege. In a truly...

Afghan Coundrum

The 8th Worldwide Security Conference in Brussels organized by the EastWest Institute (EWI), one of the world's leading think tanks, in cooperation with the...

Study of The Qur’an General Guidelines

IntroductionQur'an is the word of God, directly revealed in Arabic, to the last Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) during 23 years of his...

Nexus Between Corruption, Organised Crime and Terrorism

Corruption is alive and well in Pakistan, like inflation it has force-multiplied itself into an inescapable part of our daily lives. That we have...