My article printed on June 20, 2013 at Daily Times, Islamabad stated that Pakistani Christians have thrown some of their political support to Pakistan Muslim League (N) in the election on 11 May 2013, even though they have reason to be wary of his return to power. Majority of the Pakistani Christian

When President Xi Jinping landed in Islamabad in April 2015, he was delayed in his trip by a couple of months. His September 2014 sojourn was postponed because of security reasons, demonstrating the fear of instability in Pakistan. Then again, his visit in March 2015 as part of a three-nation tour w

While the international community looks the other way when targeted assassinations occur elsewhere around the globe, it is hardly surprising that we should see this going on in a country so highly disputed as Kashmir. Even more so, where there has been continued resistance to occupation and to many

Sub:- (i)- M.P. Congress Leaders Digvijay Singh, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia etc. seem to be complicit with BJP govt in 'Vyapam' scam (ii)- Rajasthan Congress Leaders Ashok Gehlot, CP Joshi, Dhariwal, Sachin Pilot etc seem to be complicit with Vasundhara in pay-back scam (

Sub:- How can 'High profile backers’' denigrate Indian State without Lalit Modi first exhausting all remedies in India ?
-- As per report in prominent media - “[Former IPL chief Lalit Modi had enlisted several high profile backers in its efforts to procure resident status in the UK and for his leg

People of Gilgit Baltistan, a unique mixture of ethnic mountain communities, are today living as slaves of the Punjabi-run, military-dominated Pakistan. These simple mountain folk do not have anything in common with the large majority of the Pakistanis. They are not linked by any cultural or histori

Nearly a century after failing to achieve nationhood in the post-Versailles period, the Kurds are now on the move. A greater Kurdistan nation-state taken from the four countries where Kurds are minorities is improbable, although greater autonomy is growing within Turkey and Syria if not Iran, and an

Shia Muslims in Kuwait have been slaughtered in a mosque by Sunni Takfiri Islamists that deem the Shia to be apostates. Immediately ISIS (Islamic State – IS) claimed responsibility for the latest atrocious attack against Shia Muslims that is all too common in nations like Iraq and Pakistan. However,

What is the connection between the fraudulent elections held by Pakistan in the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region and China? There is a very deep connection which the international community is ignoring, deliberately or otherwise. This callous indifference, and colossal ignorance, is going to make Gi

Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC said in a statement here today that Pakistani Muslim historians are liars and tools of establishment who have never written truth about Pakistan Movement, founder of Pakistan and role of Christians in formation of Pakistan.
“Bias Paki

Those countries are fortunate who have leaders who make public commitments for higher achievements for their country. In that sense India is fortunate that PM Modi is publicly committed (through election promises) to achieve (in addition to transparent and clean govt.) unprecedented economic progres

Kalawati comes from a family of small farmers. Hers is a ‘joint and happy family’ where she lives with her husband, 1 daughter, 2 sons, 1 daughter-in-law and 1 granddaughter. Her postgraduate sons working outside the village are doing fairly well and have helped her construct their own house in the

The compassionate Karl Marx after having invested two decades into the reading of economics and practice of labor laws in England ended up with a couple of unique concepts along with other mammoth intellectual contributions, like Das Capita, Communist Manifesto, criticism of Hegel’s philosophy etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a new, universal set of 17 proposed goals, with 169 targets that 193 countries (who are members of the UN) will be expected to use to frame their post-2015 development agendas and policies over the next 15 years, once the MDGs expire at the end of this y

The ongoing imprisonment of Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi highlights the ongoing oppression of Pakistan Christian, other Pakistan religious minorities, as well as Pakistan majority Muslims, by the oppressive blasphemy law, used as a tactic to silence unpopular voices and to oppress others. As p