Mohajir Qaumi Movement or Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claims to be a representative party of Mohajirs, or refugees, who moved to Pakistan after 1947. According to MQM definitiojn, Mohajirs are those refugees who speak Urdu as their mother tongue.They refuse to accept refugees of other...
Hussain Saqib
If Peshawar tragedy December 16, 2016 does not unite Pakistan against terrorism, extremism, political opportunism and anti-Pakistan media manipulation, nothing ever will. This was a gory incident in which more than a hundred school children, mostly those of soldiers fighting...
Pakistan and India spare no opportunity to fight, and fight to the end, their proxy wars everywhere possible; from their respective soils to Afghanistan to Nepal and even in the power corridors of Washington DC. The Americans have historically been influencing Pakistan to go soft on India even...
You are right. The idea is to trigger sectarian war. They can go the extent of break-up of the country to keep NS in power like they did in 1971 to ensure Bhutto coming to power.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is politically and physically besieged in his official palace in Islamabad due to a massive sit-in of his political opponents, received support from forgotten allies. Pakistan’s right-wing extremist parties sympathizing with terrorists, some of which...
The situation is unfolding with dramatic optics; battle lines have been drawn between the forces of moderate Islam jointly led by Dr Qadri and Imran Khan, and pro-Taliban elements showing their support for Sharif.
Terror-sponsoring parties rally to support beleaguered Nawaz Sharif | The Passive...
Pakistan’s budget 2014-15 presented before the Parliament highlights the priority its political leaders assign to national security. The country’s military, and by extension, the Pakistani State is at war. Foreign-aided insurgency that has claimed close to 10,000 military lives is raging though...
In a landmark development, Russia has announced on Monday that it has lifted an embargo on supplying weapons and military hardware to Pakistan. Speaking to Voice of Russia, Sergey Chemezov, head of Russian state-run technologies corporation Rostec also said that Moscow is negotiating the...
A Pakistani journo, known for his pro-Taliban passion, has entered the world of social media, Twitter, with a bang. He started tweeting with a startling revelation for his followers that he has been advised (he used the word “threatened”) through an email account “khaki power” to behave, or...
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group for various factions of Pakistani Taliban currently at war with the State of Pakistan, is busy right now to calm down the tempers within the terrorist organization as so far 56 terrorists have been killed due to infighting since Sunday. 13...
Pakistan economy is still sustaining on the infrastructure built by Ayub Khan, a dictator. Army rule, in the long-run have proved to be a blessing. Democracy is the best system but alas! Pakistan has seen only Oligarchy and not democracy. And I am a civilian.
Russia finally annexed Crimea, heretofore a part, and as much as 50% of landmass, of Ukraine, on the pretext of overwhelming majority of Russian population living in the peninsula. The annexation was formalized after a referendum, dubbed sham by the western media. Almost every member of the...
In Pakistan, history is repeating itself. It’s a déjà vu moment and the Pakistanis are watching the unfolding events with their fingers crossed. Whatever is happening proves one cardinal rule; mediocre leadership, with focus on personal vendetta, cannot grow. Only yesterday, a journalist...
Frontier Corps (FC), a paramilitary outfit under the Ministry of Interior currently policing the B-Areas of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province is reported to have attacked the hideout of terrorists near major town of Kalat. According to reports, 26 terrorists of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA)...
Pakistan’s civilian government, widely perceived as pro-Taliban, seems to have turned down the apprehensions of its security apparatus and released 16 terrorists from custody. The ridiculous cover-up of this decision and poor media spin clearly shows the suspect nature of this unwarranted...