To vote leaders into office is a legal right of every citizen in any civilized country no matter who that person is or what class of society he belongs to. Every citizen has the freedom to choose and to nominate someone to take responsible positions in government which is a service or ministering to

(A small step taken on behalf of Pakistan Peacekeeping Mission for Peace & Unity among Muslims and Hindus)
The Hindu community of Lahore city observed the festival of Rakhsha Bandhan. The celebration was arranged at the Hindu Balmiki Mandir (Nila Gumbad, Lahore). Various members of Hindu community

It is almost 30 years since the first case of HIV infection was detected in India in Chennai in 1986. In a recent webinar organized by Citizen News Service (CNS), Dr R R Gangakhedkar, Director-in-charge, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune (Indian Council of Medical Research), presented a vivid p

J&K acceded to the Union of India when its Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession on 26th October, 1947 in the presence of the then Secretary of the Union Shri V.P. Menon. India’s Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted the accession in the morning of 27th October, 1947. Indian Army was disp

Talk of a ‘soft’ coup by the Army in Pakistan has been doing the rounds for quite some time now. Seen any way Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been delivered the knock-out blow by the appointment of Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Nasir Janjua as the PM’s National Security Adviser replacing the old war-horse,Sartaj

A few days before José Luis Castro, Executive Director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) took over the dual responsibility of the Chair of the steering committee of the NCD Alliance, he spoke at a webinar hosted by CNS (Citizen News Service) in the lead up

In South Sudan the mainly Animist and Christian civilian population is in dire need of economic and international support. Unlike mainly male economic migrants reaching Europe who insist on residing in nations like Germany, the poor in South Sudan are only just surviving. This is based on the tragic

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. In

Jinnah addressed all the people of Pakistan as follows: …..You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in the State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of t

The fixation of Iran with Israel is doing little to assist the abandoned Shia in Bahrain, Pakistan and Yemen – and other nations where they face endless persecution. This reality means that Saudi Arabia can openly interfere in Bahrain and Yemen because elites in Tehran deem other issues to be of mor

Recent bombings in Ankara brought Turkey’s political and ethnic tensions, exacerbated by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, to a grim new level. Some analysts are now fearing that Turkey has become the battleground in a growing war between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK and Islamic State. Th

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has retained the death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri, the hired killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. This is an excellent decision by the apex Court. The Supreme Court has also said in its decision that everyone cannot be given permission to do what they wanted otherw

Since Muhammadu Buhari became the President of Nigeria a new fresh impetus against Boko Haram is gradually occurring. Despite this, Boko Haram keeps on launching fresh terrorist attacks in Nigeria and increasingly against other nations like Cameroon and Chad. Other regional nations like Benin and Ni

The recently concluded Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will expand corporate profits at the expense of people’s rights. A new addition to the growing number of free trade agreements (FTAs) took centre stage last Monday as the United States and 11 Pacific Rim countries announced the conclus

During an interview being shown on TV the US President Obama sounded totally helpless when he said that USA cannot be expected by his critiques to send hundreds of thousands of US troops in various parts of the world which are in gory political turmoil. Nobody expects USA to send its troops in Syria