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 ...

General Raheel Sharif broke his silence with roaring statement “military dignity will be upheld”.  The statement has generated a fear of recurrence of the old fears. I believe everyone is born with dignity and self respect. No one dignity should be hurt irrespective of the status?. Dignified individual make dignified nations, humanity, states and institutions. The cornerstone is an individual ...

16th December: Will the Military Dons ever Jettison the Heinous Past Altogether Or will their strategic games continue indefinitely. Specially after scoring colossal policy failures both in Afghanistan and Kashmir, there ought to be a rethinking of the paradigm. A general feeler across Khyber Pashtunkhwa is that given the current direction and shape of things in the province and the federally ...

The abrupt removal of Professor Dr. Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah, a well known historian and expert on the Indian and Pakhtun history on December 3, 2015 from the senior post of director National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research (NIHCR) is clear manifestation of intolerance, suppression of facts and real history on the part of the state institutions. He was ...

The Kashmir issue has become a stumbling block in improving Indo-Pak relations, costing both sides fortune to spend on military. Unless this problem is solved there is no hope that the lot of a common man on both sides will ever improve. Of course one should not be oblivious to other evils like corruption and lack of transparency in governance ...

The 67th anniversary of Human Rights Day falls on 10th December. The event has a special significance as it coincides with the United Nations initiative of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which was envisioned to be achieved by the end of 2015. On the occasion whole the globe is going to be a venue of many a march and many a ...

Amidst challenging security situation, the respective governments have been striving to woo foreign investment to uplift the fragile national economy, but they have long been ignoring a huge and easily exploitable potential existing in the country in form of women entrepreneurship. As women represent almost 51 percent of country’s population, we have been neglecting their talent in name of traditions, ...

Education is the most important factor behind the development which mankind has achieved. It develops the sense of discrimination between the right and wrong.  Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) has declared education as a fundamental human right. The enlightened and educated quarters of the world widely believe that education is a great panacea for human suffering. The governments of ...

Democracy is thought to have been introduced as early as 550 BCE in ancient Athens. It wasn’t democracy as we understand it today as only men with status, land and property were allowed to vote. The chaos of 600 men trying to decide on legislation helped decide Plato that democracy was one step away from anarchy. The modern form of ...

Germans are known to be outspoken, some would even say: rude. But in this post-protestant country, people would rather consider themselves as honest. And that’s what you expect from a friend, they believe. The large business delegation that German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought to India on the occasion of the third intergovernmental talks between the two countries on Monday and ...