جھوٹے جگ کی جھوٹی پریت – محمد عامر حسینی: میں ہندی فکشن نگار یش پال( 1929ء ۔ 1978ء) کا ناول ’جھوٹا سچ‘ پڑھ رہا تھا۔ ایک ہزار 117صفحات کا یہ ناول کب میں نے ختم کیا مجھے پتا ہی نہ چلا۔ یش پال کا یہ ناول تقسیم ہند
The turning point in Indian politics – by Tufail Ahmad: “It is historically extraordinary that Modi was born in the year (1950) in which the people of India gave themselves the Constitution, a politically enforceable document of Enlightenment ideas: liberty of thought and expression, free press, religious freedom,
Modi victory a wakeup call for Pakistan – by Ayaz Amir: Islamabad diary For the first thing this victory will do is to draw an unfortunate contrast between India and Pakistan. We may not like Narendra Modi the instigator or abettor of the anti-Muslim riots in Godhra. But it
Pakistan in a Modi Abdullah Abdullah sandwich – by A Z: Modi’s election is good because, in India and Pakistan it is only hardliners, who are not mistrusted by the armed or communal vigilantes and therfore can sue for peace in conflicts. The last BJP government almost did it, till
Pawns and prisoners of manufactured hatred – by Beena Sarwar: Screenshot of Sanaullah from a TV report last year, on Indian and Pakistani prisoners participating in a kite-flying festival together. “It’s really nice, I feel like a child myself,” Sanaullah told the reporter.b Tragically, Sanaullah, the Pakistani prisoner
Indo-Pak Cricket: Why The Grass is Greener in Kashmir: Kashmir shuts down when India and Pakistan play a cricket match, with Kashmiris always rooting maniacally for Pakistan. Syed Zafar Mehdi on the political roots of this attitude Cricket is a fascinating game in more ways
Freedom: what freedom and for whom? – by Waseem Altaf: The derogatory term and its connotations, still in use by some; Hindu “baniya” does not in any way reflect the reality. The Hindu shopkeeper or businessman, mostly in charge of business and trade in this part of the sub-continent
ٹوکے اور گنڈاسے – از وسیم الطاف: محسن پاکستان ،ایٹمی سائنس دان ،حال کے سیاست دان ،اور امن پسند دنیا کے شیطان ،جناب ڈاکٹر عبدل قدیر خان نے گزشتہ روز فرمایا کہ “اگر میں سستا ایٹم بم نہ بناتا تو بھارت پاکستان کے ٹکڑے کر دیتا
Victims of malignant malice: By Azam Inqilabi/ Kashmir Reader New Delhi superciliously bulldozed the democratic political resistance institutions in Kashmir and should not now feel worried about the unpredictable militant bulge in Kashmir. They should try to understand that carnage could
Coexistence with India: A view from Pakistan: Note: In a recent article published in daily Dawn, Mubarak Haider helps us in understanding the enemy within; and why and how Pakistani establishment has fed this monster for decades. The article published in Dawn is cross-posted below, which
The slip of Annaji – by Merlin Flower: How fast the messiahs fall down. The holy man Asaram Bapu said on the Delhi gang-rape victim, “She should have called them brothers, fallen at their feet and pleaded for mercy [i].” His platitudes as unsurprising as a hawkish President jaunting
Bring the boys home – by Talat Farooq: Eighty-feet-deep snow, boulders and slush buried more than a hundred human beings, snuffing out life and subjecting families to unfathomable grief and sorrow. Was it worth it? Has the Siachen debacle been worth it since 1984? States are driven
The 10 Million Dollar Question: It is an interrelated world. Here are seemingly four unrelated news that you might have caught. US Army is the World’s largest Employer Hafiz Saeed bounty increased to $10 Million More than 100 Pakistan Army soldiers feared dead in the
India, Pakistan to exchange parliamentary delegations: We at LUBP support liberal visa regime between India and Pakistan . We support Speaker of the House, Dr. Fehmida Mirza, PPP, on her progressive pro-peace statements : “Pakistan and India not only shared boundaries but were intertwined in
All credit to Nawaz Sharif: Source: The Hindu, Editorial The recent remarks by Nawaz Sharif, the leader of Pakistan’s main opposition party, show that there are politicians in that country prepared to stand up against the populist view of India as dushman humsaya or the