Looking back, moving forward

Editorial Periscope | February 2020 Our issue this month takes a look back at last year's events, which almost brought two nuclear nations to outright...

BJP: Muslims who stayed in India did not do the country a favor

Muslims who stayed in India did not do a favor, said Yogi Adityanath, India's controversial right-wing Hindu politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. His...

Zindagi Tamasha release uncertain: Khadim Rizvi determined to stop progress

The fate of the controversial movie, Zindagi Tamasha, remains uncertain as the Council of Islamic Ideology and Central Board of Film Censors failed to...

Asif Ghafoor survived road accident: Pakistanis rejoiced, Indians irked

Asif Ghafoor, Ex-DG ISPR and current GOC Okara survived a deadly accident on a motorway near Sargodha on 3rd February 2020. The news and...

Indian police harass primary school children for sedition

Indian police are "harassing" primary school students by repeatedly questioning them after their school was charged with sedition over a play allegedly criticizing the...

Across the River Lives the Family & the Enemy: Tale of a Soldier

The soldier was looking through his bunker across the river. Usually, it was a fixed gaze on the enemy soldiers but that day was...

India Fast Forwards Lord Rama Shrine Construction on Babri Masjid Land

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has set up a trust tasked with building a Hindu temple in Ayodhya after the Supreme Court sided...

Approaching Apocalypse under watch of “Divider-in-Chief” of India

The first Hindutva genocide of Muslims took place in 2002. Since then there is occasional splurt in violence. What happened under Governor Jagmohan in...

Kashmir Solidarity Day: Pakistan will Always Stand by Kashmir

‘No country has the right to decide the fate of Kashmir’ Pakistan has always stood firm by its demand for unconditional freedom for Kashmir....

India’s S-400 Air Defence and balance of power in South Asia

The author, a retired Air Commodore, analyses the fallout of the Indian S-400 induction on Pakistan. When operationally deployed to defend along with the French Rafale, he argues, aerial raids by the PAF on Indian targets by human-crewed aircraft would become very challenging and costly.

Pakistan Sailing in Choppy Waters

After 9/11, the US in league with NATO, Israel and India initiated global war on terror under the pretext of making the world safe,...

US Army will not Serve as Law Enforcement: Trump seeks Withdrawal from Afghanistan

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his vow to negotiate a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying he had no desire to kill "hundreds...