The present security and political scenario in Pakhtun lands can best be described through three interesting quotes from Shakespeare’s play, ‘King Lear’:  Come not between the dragon and his wrath Vengeance! plague! death! confusion! No rescue? What, a prisoner? The dastardly horrible terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda (the ancient Pushklavati), a suburban district of Peshawar valley in Khyber ...

The creation of Pakistan was shrouded in a mysteries to give political life to few. Otherwise it was clear to everyone that state was proclaimed for a person and an army.  More ink has been sprinkled on this subject than needed. The real issue was ignored, the repercussions of its creation on global politics and peace? Very few have elaborated ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), an American clergyman and Nobel Prize Winner, once said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. The situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) truly mirrors these remarks. Primarily due to the Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR), the tribal belt today is a place where humanity is daily ridiculed. It is undergoing the worst ...

The grisly and dastardly terrorist attack on a university in Charsadda named after the apostle of non-violence—Bacha Khan—is a shocking reminder that the states of the region have to re-visit their narratives and policies. The ideological networking, strategic re-adjustment and tactical amorphous techniques of the violent extremist organizations in Pakistan and other states of the region have mostly fed on ...

Beauty is objective and it is a hallmark of a thing and an object that inherits and inhabits it universally was counter-narrated with the presumption that beauty lies in the eyes of beholder. The realist and idealist debate of Aristotle and Plato might, from the plain man’s perspective might be taken as time wasting argumentation, very much synonymous with the ...

The power of poetry as an instrument of communication, propaganda and mobilisation cannot be underestimated. Throughout millenniums, poetry has been used by leaders, insurgents and peripheral voices as a means to rouse emotion, passion and invoke a sense of patriotism and love of the homeland in the fight for freedom from colonial powers and oppression.  It is no surprise therefore ...

BY MUJEEB RMN: The Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr.Nawaz Shareef is once again deeply grieved to hear that more 20 innocent Pashtoons  have lost their lives, this time in Charsadda, at Bacha Khan University located 25 miles away from the school (APS) where 145 innocent Pashtoons mostly children were butchered  in an ambush Dec.2014 carried out in almost the same ...

Empathy is the ability to feel another’s suffering or pleasure. It’s a real breakthrough in the evolution of sentient animals like ourselves and it has also been demonstrated by other animals, whales, dolphins, elephants, apes and more. It means we refuse to condone torture or inequality and we can vicariously enjoy each other’s happiness. It’s the one most salient emotion ...

The same people lived together peacefully for centuries in the pre-partition Indian subcontinent; however, the post-partition relations of the two countries have never been good neighbourly or even just neighbourly. Presently, these relations are at their lowest ebb, since BJP took over the reigns of India and Pakistan went under Martial law rule with the blessing of elected Parliament. In ...

Nobody denies the good things that the armed forces do and have been doing since years. However, capturing political and policy making powers isn’t the job for men trained for battle. They tend to do everything in the shortest possible time, and expect results immediately. Indulging the country in Afghanistan and creation of proxies for guerrilla wars by Zia led ...