There may be many frightening factors in one’s life but worrying about it and feeling disappointed has never solved any problem. The news of withdrawal of International forces after 2014 has spread like a viral disease that flies in the air and travels fast and infects all those who hear it. This fear has not only made the people worry but also let them go to the farthest ends. When the fear occupies your mind, you consider every possible option open to you. There are people who are selling away their property and transferring their wealth to the foreign lands. There are those who are shifting their families to the other countries. There are those who have closed down their businesses and are looking forward to re-establish it outside the country.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's move reflects his interest in getting Pakistan’s foreign relations right and signals this intent to the implementers of the county’s foreign policy vision around the world.

The Pipariya raid into the Dalit hamlet in Rautahat district by caste Hindus has come as a slap to the murmurings of unification among the Madhesi parties for the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.  Let’s, for a moment, set aside the insinuations contained in the reports of ‘veteran’ and ‘objective’ Nepali-speaking journalists on unification efforts among the Madhes parties as India’s machinations to continue its control over Kathmandu politics by proxy. But can Madhesi leaders push under the carpet the virulent discrimination against Dalits in the Madhes?

When revolutions are in quest of freedom and justice even after four decades of the happening, this means that they have gone awry. If hartals and demonstrations are staged with the same frequency, the scenario becomes all the more sombre. This is what has taken place in Bangladesh.

United National Party (UNP) MP for the Kandy district Lakshman Kiriella in an interview with Daily Mirror’s Kelum Bandara

In the stepped-up operations after the May 25 Jeeraghati ambush, the Maoists’ have again instilled ‘the fear of god’ in the security forces writes Lt. Col (Rtd) Sam Sharma

It is very unfortunate that almost all the political parties except the MDP are using religion as a political tool to keep former president Nasheed from winning the presidential elections this September. Their main thrust in the election campaign is that all the parties are out to save Islam from Nasheed and his MDP!

The 2013 general elections laid another milestone writes Ipsita Durah.