BANNU: Saadullah Shah, a resident of village and post office Bizenkhel, district Bannu Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has gone missing since 2016. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Government Post Graduate College Bannu. A letter and more information has been provided by his brother to The Pashtun Times. To The Editor, The Pashtun Times.   Subject:   Mysterious missing ...

LETTER: The monster of radicalization, intolerance, extremism, and sectarianism has spread its vicious tentacles eating into the very vitals of Pakistani society. Interestingly, sixty percent of our approximately 200 million-strong population is the younger generation. This second largest youth bulge offers tremendous demographic dividend if tapped and utilized properly; otherwise, it could turn into a demographic time bomb. Radicalization of the ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Is Blasphemy punishable by Death in Islam? Is the self-styled lynching not un-Quanic and un-Prophetic? Is Islam the monopoly of a few self-imposed demagogues only? Are the country’s laws are based on Sharia law and apparatus? Have the misuse of religion not morphed into metastasizing religious extremism and their violent followers? Is it not abused to persecute minorities and ...

Donald Trump has entered in his 104th day of presidency, after he has taken presidential oath by the 20th of January this year. In comparative political analysis Trump is no way different than the previous President except racism. The ever-bold decision he has made in his first presidential month was to ban seven Muslim Countries, which has brought many heterogeneous ...

The tragedy of Army Public School Peshawar, will haunt Pakistan. My heart goes out to the victims and their relatives of the December 16 tragedy. On that ominous day, the terrorists martyred 152 students at Army Public School Peshawar. They perpetrated this senseless and coldblooded act as to wreck a vengeance on security forces, and justified their crime by asserting that ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On this day, 7th of October 2001 USA attacked on Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban government and root out al-Qaeda. The government of Taliban was knockdown. Al-Qaeda were swept out from Afghanistan. After ten years, Osama Bin Laden captured and killed in NEIGHBOUR country Pakistan. Mollah Omar Akhond and other leaders of Taliban found and killed in ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Eid-ul-Fitar is a religious festival which is celebrated by the Muslims with great pomp and show. In this occasion of happiness and gladness, people purchase different things and share happiness with each other’s and take part in different cultural activities. These are salubrious activities which promote and build up human values and cultural orientations. In Pakistan, ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: As the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr approaches near, it is celebrated worldwide by Muslims in different forms and manifestations. This holy ritual indicates successful culmination of Ramadan-ul-Mubarak which brings about internal reform and self-correction. In Pakistan too, people celebrate Eid with great pomp and show by making delicious foods, wearing new clothes and attending to cultural activates. ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: There has been a shoot out in Orlando, where some Islamic radical has targeted a club of homosexuals leading to heavy casualties. Words will never define our grief and our condolences are with families of the victims. Furthermore, this vicious inhuman-act is condemnable and an abhorrent rampage. On the contrary, this attack coincides with two different occasions: firstly, ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Despite going all out against militants, Pakistan’s commitment to curb terrorism remains under question. The fight against terrorism has always been largely based on the assumption that there are good militants and bad militants. The latter were seen as the enemies of the state, who must have to be crushed while the former were regarded as ...