Dear Readers, Elections are due in Pakistan in early 2013 provided all goes well. As is the norm in third world countries, politics in Pakistan has started picking up momentum and is sliding into a contentious, almost venomous mode. This is evident in the many Talk Shows being hosted on private television channels. Pakistan has…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide AttacksAt least 14 persons, including two policemen and a woman, were killed and 30 others, including women and children, sustained injuries in a suicide attack on a bus of pilgrims coming from Iran, at Hazar Ganji area of Quetta on June 28, reports Daily Times. According to sources, the bus…
IntroductionThe Second World War was opened in Eastern and Southern Asia suddenly in early December 1941 by the Japanese. The British possessions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo and Burma were overrun by the Japanese armed forces. In this article the Malaya Campaign, December 1941-February 1942 will be dis-cussed. The Indian, British and Australian forces had…
Basic question about democracy today is as to how established democracies around the globe are changing under the conditions of globalization of politics? If the 50 states of the Union (USA) lived pleasantly together under a federal constitution and if the forever fighting Europeans could unite in the European Union, what are the rea- sons…
The annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2012 was held in Beijing, China. Heads of the states rigorously reviewed the regional security issues and emerging movers & shakers elements in world power politics. China the 2nd largest economy of the world hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. It played remarkable role…
Unprovoked shooting down of a Turkish Air Force (Tu AF) RF-4 Phantom aircraft by the Syrian air defence system on June 22 has sent shock waves across the world. Syria, already mired in multiple crises of serious magnitude has certainly added another one to its menu. Downing of Turkish jet has triggered a chorus of…
The large scale clashes between the Syrian Army and the fighters of the Free Syrian Army-FSA in Damascus since five days, and the death in the suicide bombing of five top Syrian Generals and cabinet ministers at the National Security HQ’s is a turning point in the struggle of the Syrian people to bring an…
Dear Readers, Many people, especially outsiders not familiar with how things work at the official level in Pakistan will be shocked to learn that not a single project of the size of either Mangla or Tarbela dam has beer initiated during the last four decades or so. Should it then be surprising that Pakistan finds…
The Holy Prophet once said, “The best women in all the world are four: the Virgin Mary, Asiya the wife of Pharaoh, Khadijah Mother of the Believers, and Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (PBUH).” Hazrat Fatimah was the fifth child of The Holy Prophet and Hazrat Khadijah. She was born 5 years before the prophet-hood of…
The Allied Landings on the Normandy beaches on the coast of France on June 6, 1944 during World War 2 is commonly known as “The Longest Day”. After reports appeared initially in the electronic media that he was doled out almost Rs. 400 million by Malik Riaz of Bahria town-fame, the Chief Justice of Pakistan…
