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One important role which Quaid played in the politics of India was for the achievement of the Hindus and Muslims unity. Maulana Muhammad Ali is reported to have said at the end of his life: “I learnt Islam from Abul Kalam Azad and Iqbal — one pulls me in one direction, and the other points to the opposite way”. Ultimately …

It is obligatory upon Muslims to have belief in all the prophets who were sent by Almighty God. Prophethood means the transmission or reaching of Allah’s message to the human beings through prophets which may be in the verbal form i.e. sayings of the prophets or in practical form i.e. the actions of the prophets or their tacit approval or …

Hameedullah Jan Afridi Chairman, IPO- Pakistan Hameedullah Jan Afridi, Chairman, Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan, (IPO- Pakistan), Islamabad, has given an interview to Jahangir’s World Times about the working of his department. He has worked in various capacities in different government departments. A highly qualified person, he was elected Senator and MNA from NA-46 Khyber Agency, and had been Federal …

Western thinkers often describe man as a social animal, rational animal or talking animal, Marxists emphasize that man is an economic animal. Despite the innumerable technological advancements and intellectual achievements of modern man, his life is smothered with countless dilemmas of gigantic magnitude. Economic disparities, political upheavals, vicious cycle of violence, social tensions, psychological traumas and other such appalling crises …

  It goes without saying that a severe recession means rough sledding for businesses. But small businesses can escape some of the woes plaguing their bigger brethren, and downturns provide opportunities as well as hardship. “While it is true generally that recessions are bad for business, big trees make the most noise when they fall in the forest,” says Adrienne …

Majority of the students feel stressed and tensed because of high expectations of their family members, teachers or friends. Stress is indeed one of the most common problems of today’s world, so before discussing exam stress it is important to explain first that ‘what is stress’? The definition says that ‘stress is a dynamic condition in which an individual is …

Pakistan is in a state of war for the last many years and it has suffered a lot in the US war against terrorism than any other country. It is not the right of any other country to take decision and impose it on us. At last after resisting the US pressure to launch military operation in North Waziri-stan, the …

President Zardari ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government was committed to women empowerment, improvement in the living standards of the people and to reach out to the poor. He was addressing the launching ceremony of the mobile phone banking for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) beneficiaries of northern Punjab the other day, the draw of Waseela-e-Haq …

It is time tested truth in accordance with the political history of Pakistan that the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. From the drone attacks in our country to the mysterious operation in Abbottabad, from the simmering inflation to the lethargic economy, almost shivering from the fear of a ghost named International …

A rapidly growing population, along with political tensions,both internal and external, and an economy trapped in a cycle of debt, all serve to prevent Pakistan from attaining the progress it needs to advance and perhaps to survive. Pakistan suffers from a number of social, political, and economic problems.  With a population roughly half that of the US, in an area …