It is nothing less than astounding that intelligent men who are charged with the responsibility of leading a country cannot comprehend that spending billions of dollars to maintain possession of a very small disputed territory to its north with millions of troops at the expense of their own national

December 25th is a public holiday, but it is in the memory of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of the country, not for the celebrations of Christmas. Pakistan has a population over 180 million people and there are around 20 millions Christians. Although there is no census in the country for many yea

Let the voices of justice, peace, and respect for law enforcement be heard. People around the world have seen the iron man protecting a Christian minor girl Rimsha (accused of burning holy papers of Islamic verses that focused international attention on Pakistan’s unsympathetic blasphemy laws) up to

Prominent Pakistani Asma Jehangir once said that the government of Pakistan should brought the listed war criminals of the 1971 war time to the path of justice for their war crime, couple of years ago in her last visit to Dhaka. When we are celebrating our 43rd years of victory of our freedom some q

Traditionally, Christmas is the time to think of Jesus Christ as a baby in a manger. While the birth of Christ is a special and miraculous event, it isn't the primary focus. The central truth of the Christmas story is this: the Child of Christmas is God.
God in a Manger
Christmas story is not abou

When news of the school massacre in Pakistan’s Peshawar first surfaced as breaking news, it appeared exaggerated and unreal. One’s mind is sometimes incapable of believing or rather rejects immediately recognizing that these are facts and that someone has really decided it’s time to collectively mur

Russia, day in and day out, criticizes West (especially USA) for many things which allegedly disturb the global order & peace and many times rightly so. But Russia should realize that USA also takes lead in resolving global problems whereas Russia hardly does so. Rather in many cases as in Syria [in

Last Sunday (December 14), Boko Haram’s terrorist attack resulted in death more than 32 and kidnapping of 185 people, in northeast Nigeria.
Two days later, (December 16), national security forces killed a self-styled Muslim cleric who had taken people hostage at a café in Sydney, Australia.
The sa

We had just finished our routine meeting in our office and were sitting in reporting room. My colleague Nasir Kazmi told me that Chief Justice Supreme Court Justice Nasirul Mulk will be hearing the Kot Radha Kishan case today. During our discussion I received a text message from BBC producer Wietske

If his news conference of December 18, 2014 is any indication then President Putin, in addition to economic & financial problems, is still not understanding the problem of Southeast Ukraine as explained below:-
(1)- The economic & financial problems which Russia is facing (mainly due to fall in pe

I am forced to share about my grief and painful heart after seeing innocent children dead bodies and bitterly crying mothers for their beloved. In the whole world mother’s heart are full of pain and crying with grief after seeing this brutal attack on the little children of school that are going to

Few weeks ago, I wrote an article with a title “Ready or Not they are Coming” which was published by many blogs. In that write up it is mentioned that how ISIS is making their roots in Pakistani society; it was really an alarming situation for religious minorities as well as the modern Muslims.
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"It is not only about preventing new births of thalassemic infants; about chelation, about blood transfusion and about availability of services needed; but also about preventing complications related to Thalassaemia. We cannot take half baked measures. Because if the patient dies prematurely, it wil

After writing the story of the recent Christian victims; British Pakistani Christian Association –BPCA asked me to visit them to provide some counseling, advice and prayer. It was a courtesy call which brought following facts.
I started my journey on Thursday morning at 6:30 am from Islamabad t

The moderate Syrian rebel groups are caught between a rock and a hard place, pilloried by radical factions for taking Western weapons but failing to get enough of them (or quickly enough) to become serious players. Moderate groups also suffer from poor morale and a lack of resources which is leading