HOSTILE FRIENDS
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER A few weeks back the Pakistan army published its new Green Book which identified internal insurgent forces as the country’s principal national security threat. The book also...
View ArticleALL AGAINST TERRORISM
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER In this world of conspiracies, spreading of depression has proved one of the very successful strategies used as the war tactics and its repercussions are more fatal and lethal...
View ArticleMISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Recently a Bangladeshi judicial tribunal sentenced life imprisonment to Abdul Qader Mullah, a leader of Jamat-e-Islami, for his role during the independence war against Pakistan...
View ArticleNOW IT IS BANGLADESH
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ‘The death toll rose to at least 37 in violence sparked by a controversial death sentence handed down against the head of an Islamic party for war crimes committed during the...
View ArticleIN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Just a few days back, I was really stunned rather shocked when I overheard someone at a roadside restaurant convincing vehemently his fellows that the army would never let Nawaz...
View ArticleTHE ONGOING POLITICAL PROCESS IN PAKISTAN
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER The General Elections 2013 shall give a new colour to the history of Pakistan. Now-a-days one could feel a great hustle and bustle among all political sections of society in...
View ArticleNEITHER A SPY NOR A TERRORIST
ALI SUKHANVER I never knew that there is no difference between a spy and a terrorist but the recent reporting of some of our own national media houses on the Sarabjeet Singh’s death revealed upon me...
View ArticleANOTHER TYPE OF TERRORISM
ALI SUKHANVER Though the nation is very much delighted over the continuity of democratic process in Pakistan but this feeling of joy and happiness won’t last longer if the tree of democracy does not...
View ArticleSOS CALL FROM MINORITIES IN INDIA
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER The Muslim community in India constitutes about 13.4% of the total Indian population but the people belonging to this community are leading a miserable life even worse than the...
View ArticleCHINA ON A ROAD TO WISDOM
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER The recent conflict between China and India in the Ladakh region of LAC has simply widened the already growing differences and increasing distances between the two countries....
View ArticleWHAT HAPPENED THAT DREADFUL NIGHT
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER “That was no doubt the most dreadful night of my life,” a Swiss tourist in her late thirties was talking to the media in a tone filled with harassment and fear. She had been on...
View ArticleFOREIGN HANDS IN BALOCHISTAN
ALI SUKHANVER Sometimes it seems next to impossible to decide what the actual problem of Balochistan is. Countless targeted killings, kidnappings, suicide attacks and bomb blasts have deprived the...
View ArticleCOUNTERING TERRORISM
ALI SUKHANVER Whenever we discuss the role of law enforcement agencies, particularly with specific reference to the continuous wave of terrorism in Pakistan, we simply ignore the reality...
View ArticleMISUSE OF RELIGION
ALI SUKHANVER Exploitation could be of so many kinds and so many shapes but in every form and every type, it is simply an evil, a menace and a nuisance. Among all forms of exploitation, emotional...
View ArticleSOS CALL FROM MINORITIES IN INDIA
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER The Muslim community in India constitutes about 13.4% of the total Indian population but the people belonging to this community are leading a miserable life even worse than the...
View ArticleDEPLORABLE FATE OF THE SIKHS IN INDIA
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Addressing the 68th UN General Assembly, the Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh raised his serious concerns over terrorism coming to India from across the border. He also...
View ArticleDON’T BE SO CALLOUS
ALI SUKHANVER Death is always very painful, not only for the one who dies but also for those who are left behind to mourn over his death. If the process of dying is natural, the feeling of loss is...
View ArticleJUST FOR FAME AND PROMINENCE
ALI SUKHANVER Fame and prominence are very natural type of desires. Living and dying in this world without any recognition and without being acknowledged is something very difficult and very unnatural....
View ArticleA CHILD NAMED THROOR
BY PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER “I am going to address a crowd of brainless dummies”, the Indian Union Minister Mr. Shashi Throor might have been thinking when he was getting his video-message recorded for...
View ArticleSHIFTING THE BATTLE FIELD
ALI SUKHANVER The recent brutal killing of Molana Moavia, a leader of Ahl-e-Sunnat-wal-Jammat in Lahore is a proof that the terrorists have now planned to shift their battle-field from other cities of...
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