BY MUHAMMAD AMIR RANA A transnational approach, flexible operational frameworks and interagency collaboration between traditional law enforcement agencies and other government institutions are considered the essential components of an effective counterterrorism policy. A successful counterterrorism model is still a work in progress. Countries continue to improve their national security policies by learning from the best […]
BY LYDIA JAMES When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery City in 1955, at the height of racial segregation in the US, she had no idea of the impact her spontaneous action would have. Others had done the same before, but by challenging the ‘laws of segregation’ during […]
BY AAKAR PATEL For someone who speaks a lot, Narendra Modi reveals very little about his actual views. He has preferred not to be interviewed by the press to the extent that a leader of his position should be open to doing, though he isn’t alone here. The two Gandhis and the chief ministers of […]
BY NASEER AHMED I was among a privileged few friends a self-proclaimed atheist invited to his wedding. The groom was ready to board a vehicle for the ceremonial journey to his bride’s home when the lines of a wanwun (traditional Kashmiri lyrics sung by women at marriages) stopped him in his tracks: sabz dastaras khuda chui raazi, pakistanuk […]
Sameer Bhat Dubai: Acclaimed writer and essayist Pankaj Mishra says that filing sedition charges against 67 Kashmiri students after some of them allegedly cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a recently televised match with India is absurd. “While I don’t completely know the facts of the case but to punish students just because they […]
Lahore: The success of Aam Admi Party in India seems to have crossed boundaries and inspired people in Pakistan, where a party has been launched with the same name. A group led by Arslan-ul-Mulk, a rights activist from Gujranwala, has registered Aam Admi Party (AAP) with the Election Commission of Pakistan. The AAP chairman said […]
SHILLONG: The BSF has handed over a list of 66 camps of north-east insurgents to the Border Guard Bangladesh, seeking actions against them. “We have requested our counterparts in Bangladesh for cooperation in dismantling the camps of insurgents from the region. We have handed over a list of 66 camps that exist in Bangladesh,” Sudhir […]
Azim Jan BANDIPORA: The leaders and activists of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were forced to flee from this north Kashmir district on Sunday as the youth attacked them with stones ahead of their scheduled road show. The attack left at least four activists injured. Dozens of AAP activists, led by the party’s leader Raja […]
Fatehgarh Sahib: Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, son of Beant Singh, one of the two assassins of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, joined the Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday. Sarabjit, who had unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections in 2007 from Bathinda on the SAD (Amritsar) ticket, joined the BSP in the presence of its Punjab unit president Parkash […]
SRINAGAR: Special camps were Sunday organised at all designated polling stations for addition of new voters in wake of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, officials said. “ As many as 804 polling stations in Srinagar experienced huge rush of people in connection with voter registration,” an official spokesman said. Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant […]