Introduction
“Many of the wars of the 20th century were about oil, but wars of the 21st century will be over water”, said Dr Isamil Serageldin, former Vice President of the World Bank. Water is surpassing oil as the world’s scarcest…
Howard Zinn once remarked, “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” So, did the meetings of the United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry with Egyptian and Arab League leaders bring anything tangible? If…
ہر برس کی مانند ۱۵ اگست ۲۰۱۴ کو مقبوضہ کشمیر کے طول و عرض میں بھارتی یومِ آزادی کو یومِ سیاہ کے طور پر منایا گیا ۔کشمیریوں کی اکثریت نے اپنے گھروں پر سیاہ جھنڈے لہرا کر گویا دنیا کو ایک بار…
The well wishers of Pakistan-India relations were expecting that the recent exchanges of fire on the LOC and the verbal exchanges through media would be curbed during Foreign Secretary level talks scheduled in Islamabad on 25th August, 2014. All these expectations were…
The landslide victory by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in May 2014 Indian Parliamentary Elections has triggered a new debate among the political scientists and prompted them to do some introspection. The said party is widely regarded to be the political wing of…
Historically Pakistan attaches great importance to its relations with Afghanistan despite of the fact that for over past three decades, Afghanistan has been marred with internal and external conflicts and Pakistan got affected somehow or the other. At present, there are number…
ایک طرف دنیا بھر کے مسلمان عید الفطر کا تہوار منا رہے ہیں تو دوسری طرف غزہ ،کشمیر اور دنیا کے دیگر خطوں میں غاصب قوتیں مظلوم مسلمانوں پر بربریت اور سفاکی کا ہر حربہ آزما رہی ہے۔اسی پس منظر میں مبصرین…
Recent decision of the Indian government to ask United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to vacate its office in New Delhi has evoked severe criticism. “Closing down the UN observers’ office in New Delhi is a glaring example…
On June 15, authorities in Pakistan launched a full-fledged military operation, named "Zarb-e-Azb," against foreign and local terrorists in the country. So far, more than 400 militants have been killed and 17 army personnel martyred. Several terrorist hideouts, bomb-making factories, training camps…
بھارتی حکومت نے دہلی میں تعینات جموں کشمیر کی بابت اقوامِ متحدہ کے مبصر مشن کا دفتر بند کر کے کہا ہے کہ چونکہ ۱۹۷۲ کے شملہ معاہدے میں دونوں حکومتوں نے کشمیر کے مسئلے کو دو طرفہ بنیاد پر حل کرنے…