Ghulam Muhammad Mir (GM Mir), a noted Kashmiri researcher and intellectual, woefully moans: every day in the calendar is a Martyr’s Day for the people of Kashmir. His mourning succinctly portrays the plight of the people living in perpetual subjugation since 1947. It is an appalling reality that after the creation of Pakistan, leadership of Pakistan and Kashmir, by and large, did not make any sincere effort(s) to engage the ...
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Fatima Jinnah, screamed this sentence while commenting on the situation of Pakistan in 1956. She lamented that dream which prompted Muslims of India and Quaid e Azam to sacrifice and create Pakistan did not materialize. The precarity prevailing in that era hurt her deep, forcing her to utter the sentence that Quaid did not live to witness the destruction of Pakistan at the hands of incompetent, power and wealth hungry ...
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True mettle of a leader, political or military, is gauged when he faces adversarial situation(s), when a disaster seems imminent. When commoners lose hope and stumble to blunders, worsening the state of affairs, real leaders, showing grace under pressure, display true headship and come up with extra ordinary plans and strategies: which turn the table on the opponents or dull the defeat. Great leaders do not put their hands up, ...
Read MoreBy : Zafar Sultan Watching curiously a group of twenty some students dancing at an Indian song, at a public parking, I went near them. The students, boys and girls, were all engrossed in chatters and claps, clanks and giggles, oblivious of the stares of bystanders around. After a while ,when the song, being played in one of their cars had ended, I ambled to a gentle looking boy and asked ...
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