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برصغیر میں انگریزوں کی آمد اور اس پہ قبضے کی داستان بہت دلچسپ بھی ہے اور حیرت انگیز بھی۔ ہزاروں کی تعداد میں آئیں اور کروڑوں کی تعداد میں انسانوں کو غلام بنایا ۔ ان کی اس حکمت عملی کو سمجھنے کےلئے اس دور کا سیاسی اور بالخصوص نفسیاتی جائزہ لئے بغیر ہم پوری طرح ان کی حکمت عملی کا ...

سابق آرمی چیف جنرل راحیل شریف کی 39 اسلامی ممالک پر مشتمل فوجی اتحاد کی کمان سنبھالنے کی خبر سے پاکستان میں کئ حوالوں سے زبردست بحث چڑ چکی ہے ۔ جس میں پاک – سعودی عرب تعلقات کے حوالے سے بھی کئی باتیں ھو رہی ہیں ۔ اس ضمن میں یہ سوالات بڑے اھم ہیں کہ پاک-سعودی تعلقات برا ...

They are led by Negina Khpalwak, Afghanistan’s first female conductor. In the face of death threats and accusations they are dishonouring their families by daring to perform, the women of Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra are charting a new destiny for themselves through music. The group is set to be catapulted onto the world stage with a performance at the World ...

MOSCOW: Russian authorities have extended US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden’s Russian residency permit by three years, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Snowden’s residence permit has been extended “until 2020”, said ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. She had previously indicated on Facebook that Snowden’s permit had been extended by two years, using a phrase that can be ambiguous in Russian. Snowden’s ...

PAKISTAN: The Taliban militants group can carry on insurgency for a very long time, Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz said as he insist that the Afghan leaders to review their “fragmented” approach to peace talks with the Taliban on containing and ending the resilient insurgency. Aziz made the remarks during an interview with the Voice of America. He said ...

President Barack Obama has spoken with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah. The White House said President Obama called President Ghani to speak with the two leaders regarding the bilateral relations of the two nations. “President Obama spoke by phone today with President Ashraf Ghani of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, who was joined by Chief Executive ...

KABUL: Yesterday, the 6-months report from the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) was publicized highlighting that 2016 was the bloodiest year ever for journalists and media in Afghanistan. Yesterday, the 6-months report from the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) was publicised highlighting that 2016 was the bloodiest year ever for journalists and media in Afghanistan. 13 journalists were killed, a ...

Gilgit-Baltistan police on Wednesday announced the arrest of 12 members of the nationalist Balawaristan National Front (BNF) on charges of anti-state activities. GB’s Inspector General Police Zafar Iqbal Aiwan during a press briefing claimed the 12 arrested were trying to “promote an anti-national ideology” and had “played into the hands of foreign agencies”. “The BNF came into being in 1995. ...

As U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office on January 20, he leaves behind an unfinished conflict, the longest lasting and least successful U.S. war in history: Afghanistan. For Afghanistan and the Afghans, Mr. Obama was a President of contradiction whose Afghan policy proved markedly disastrous. He wrongly believed that he would win the War on Terror militarily and by appeasing ...

KABUL: The former President Hamid Karzai speaking in a Raisina Dialogue held in New Delhi India, said the war on terrorism is not showing results because the timeframe is not based on dates. Terming the conference of immense importance because of discussion on multi-lateralism and multi-polarity, the former Afghan president said, “The prolongation of the so-called war against terrorism, not ...