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It is the opinion of Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior that the continued stay of Afghan refugees in this country is a threat to security.Many of these refugees have been found to be involved in numerous crimes, including offenses of moral turpitude. However, attempts by the government of Pakistan to send the Afghan refugees homes have […]

Earlier this week, China’s national legislature adopted Constitutional Amendments enshrining Xi Jinping’s philosophy on socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a new Era into the Constitution. Two important contents of the amendment are the inclusion of Xi’s thought into the country’s fundamental law — which reflects the common aspirations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and […]

India, which has been opposed to China since it received a drubbing from it in the 1962 Sino-Indian War, spares no stone unturned to denigrate it. Pakistan was never accepted as a sovereign state by India and every machination in the Chanakyan book on guile and deceit has been tried out to subjugate Pakistan. India […]

The highly decorated American writer and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes Steve Coll, has recently published his new book titled, Directorate S — the CIA and America’s secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Coll’s earlier book titled, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September […]

Nearly ten years after the Mumbai terrorist attacks — also referred to as ‘India’s 9/11’, we are no closer to finding out who was responsible for the heinous attacks despite a crescendo of Indian accusations. To help discern facts through a cloak of perfidy, Elias Davidsson’s book The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence […]

Laws criminalising blasphemy were introduced to India by the British in 1860, and further expanded in 1927.When Pakistan came into existence, it inherited these laws. Between 1980 and 1986, a number of clauses were added to the Blasphemy Laws by General Ziaul Haq’s military government, which wanted to Islamize them and also legally separate Pakistan’s […]

Five years ago, Muhammad Afzal Guru was executed in secrecy, without being allowed to meet his loved ones and buried quietly in Delhi’s Tihar jail on February 9, 2013. Afzal Guru had been accused of aiding and abetting the December 13, 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. Afzal Guru was born in Sopore in the […]

Since 9/11, the U.S. has been stressing that Pakistan to curb the freedom of madaris (religious seminaries) and regulate them. President Musharraf took some half hearted measures in this regard, which bore marginal results. Two laws were passed: one to create state-controlled madaris; the other to register and control them. The former had moderate success, […]

Pakistan, which was created so that its citizens could live in peace and harmony without the fear of oppression, tyranny or subjugation, has somehow been overwhelmed with violence, extremism and terrorism. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had envisaged a country where not only Muslims but all other faiths could reside without fear […]

Deep state is sometimes defined as a secret government-within-the-government, a perennial institution, having more power than elected officials, because elected officials and their appointees have term limits, but the covert ‘security’ apparatus remains from one administration to another, accumulating power and organisation that elected administrations don’t accumulate. The phrase has various origins, Greg Grandin, a […]