National,Front Page

Blessed be the happy New Year

With the clock striking 12 midnight on Friday another year slipped into eternity heralding a new year of hope. As the month of January comes from the Roman god Janus, who has his eyes both behind and forward, we look to the past year to garner lessons for coping with the New Year’s problems. A...

National,Front Page

Ignoble surrender of Pakistan Army

On this day in 1971, the chief of the Pakistani armed forces, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, along with 93,000 troops, surrendered to the allied forces consisting of Mukti Bahini and Indian Army, led by General Jagjit Singh Aurora of India, at the Ramna Race Course Maidan, now Suhrawardy Udyan, i...

National,Front Page

Too deep for tears

As the adage goes when the heart is closed words are few, the nation gets stunned with profound shock as the birthday of Sheikh Russel arrives.Things were happening before little Russel, but he could not understand what was actually happening. The assassin bullets just took away from him everything ...