Hamid Mir (Urdu: حامد مير, born July 23, 1966) is a Pakistani journalist and editor. He is news anchor, terrorism expert, and security analyst who regularly participates in international conferences. He is also known for his columns in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English newspapers and hosts a popular political talk show on Geo TV with the name of Capital Talk. He was banned from TV by the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf in 2007. He was again banned by the Zardari-led PPP government in June 2008.

Nusrat Javed is a renowned Pakistani journalist at Aaj TV Pakistan. He is currently the co-host with Mushtaq Minhas of a talk show “Bolta pakistan”. He previously was the co-host with Mushtaq Minhas of a talk show Dunya Merey Agay at dunya TV. The daily show Bolta Pakistan started on May 8 2007 quickly became popular with the audience and his outspoken style drew direct criticism from Musharraf Administration.The show Bolta Pakistan aired on weeknights, Monday to Friday at 11 PM Pakistan Standard Time was forced off-air during 2007 Pakistani state of emergency imposed by General Musharraf.

Javed Chaudhry ( Urdu:جاوید چوہدری) is a newspaper columnist in Pakistan. His series of columns have been published in four volumes in Urdu language. His most notable column ZERO POINT has great influence upon people of Pakistan especially Youth and Muslims of Pakistan. He writes for the Urdu newspaper Daily Express four time a week, covering topics ranging from social issues to politics.Javed Chaudhry was born in Lalamusa , district of Gujrat, Pakistan. He received his degree in journalism from The Islamia University Bahawalpur. He has Four children and currently resides in Shahzad Town, Islamabad.He started his career in journalism in 1989. He worked at Daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Daily Pakistan, Daily Ummat and Daily Khabrain before joining Daily Jang in 1997.In January 2008, Javed Chaudhry joined Express News (Pakistan) as an anchorperson of a political Talk show “Kal Tak”, in which he analyses current affairs of Pakistan with guests from various think tanks and political parties.

Nayar was born at Sialkot, Undivided India on 14 August 1923 in a Sikh Khatri family. His parents were Gurbaksh Singh and Pooran Devi. He had his early schooling at the Ganda Singh High School with his sister Kirsten Harcus, who is known for marrying English entrepreneur Jack Cole, in Sialkot. After school, he studied at a number of institutes including Murray College(Sialkot), Medill School of Journalism (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.). His degrees include B.A.(Hons.), LL.B., M.Sc. (in Journalism) and Ph.D. (Philosophy). After independence he came to Delhi. One Day when he sat sadly in Chandni chowk Delhi, Lok Sabha MP Moulana Hasrat Mohani spotted him. Nayyar introduce himself as an Urdu Journalist. Moulna Mohani however, suggested him to write in English since Urdu was a rather neglected language in India then.

At times, even negative growth is considered positive. This sums up the outcome of talks between the two foreign secretaries, Nirupama Rao of India and Salman Bashir of Pakistan. The fact that they addressed a joint press conference and did not utter a word of denunciation, even after having taken a divergent stand at the day-long special session on Kashmir, shows that the two countries are beginning to care about each other’s sensitivities.

It augurs well for the meeting between the foreign ministers later this July. Both countries have an opposite stance on Kashmir and, as Bashir said at the joint press conference, they have not resiled from their known positions. Not even an optimist expected a breakthrough at Islamabad.

Still, Rao gave a peep into the future when she said that it was time that “a vocabulary of peace” rather than an ideology of military conflict determined the way the two countries viewed each other. What it indicates is that they have realised how futile the two wars of 1947 and 1965 have been. The important point is that after the hostilities they have found a common ground to sign peace agreements.

Indeed, Kashmir is a complex issue which has got more intractable over the years. First, there were two parties, India and Pakistan. Now the Kashmiris, too, want to have their say, a natural desire which has taken the shape of azadi. The Kashmiris have lost some 40,000 people in their ‘fight’ for self-determination. The solution has to have the imprint of Kashmiris’ approval.

Many solutions have been bandied about — New Delhi and Islamabad are still working at a few through back channels — but what appears more acceptable than the rest is to make the Line of Control (LoC) into the ‘Line of Peace’, as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto suggested in 1972 when he was giving me an interview as Pakistan’s prime minister. He did not pursue the proposal at the Shimla Conference. His probe in the country had made it clear that he could not sell the formation when it had lost its eastern wing a few months earlier.

More or less the same formula was retrieved by former Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf nearly 35 years later. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly endorsed it because there was no change in the Kashmir-Muzzaffarpur border, his pre-condition for accepting the solution. According to Pakistan’s former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri, the agreement would have been signed by Singh at Lahore if the lawyers’ agitation in Pakistan had not disturbed the situation.

The two foreign ministers can bring the formula back to the table. There are enough indications to suggest that Pakistan is willing to begin from the point where talks ended during the Musharraf period.

After the Mumbai 2008 attacks, India is convinced that no militant can operate in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country without assistance from across the border. In fact, the Mumbai attacks consumed almost the entire meeting on the first day between the two foreign secretaries. Rao pointed out that Pakistan had done very little to bring the perpetrators to justice. Bashir promised to pursue the case vigorously. But since no new judge has been appointed to the Special Court for the prosecution of the killers, there is little hope for an early action.

Rao took all this in her stride to show how keen New Delhi was to normalise relations with Pakistan. Bashir responded by agreeing to set up two joint committees to discuss how to clear the nuclear shadow over the subcontinent and to suggest steps to control the excessive military build up on both sides. This initiative on the part of Pakistan shows that the army is on board.

At last, both countries have realised that people to people contact is essential to establish good relations There are proposals to liberalise visas and, at the same time, increase trade, which is negligible at present. Were the two foreign ministers to take up the implementation of the reported agreement on Sir Creek, they would strengthen a good beginning. Both countries should have concluded by this time that there is no option but peace and friendship.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 7^th, 2011.

Saleem Safi is an anchor/analyst with the largest Urdu news channel, Geo..He also hosts a Pashto language current affairs programm on AVT Khyber. He was the host of “Saleem Safi Kay Saath”, a daily current affairs talk show on Pakistan Television (PTV). This program aired from April 2006 to August 2008. He remained, the Bureau Chief of News Network International ,from 1997 to 2008. His Articles appears in pakistan’s largest urdu newspaper “Daily Jang”and English language newspaper “The News” (with the title of “Jirga”.He is host of Geo TV’s popular current afffair program “Jirga”.
He is frequently invited to comment on BBC and Voice of America’s Pashto services as an expert on Afghanistan and N.W.F.P.

Najam Sethi (Urdu: نجم سیٹھی), an award winning Pakistani journalist and media personality, is the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore based political weekly. He was previously the editor of Daily Times and Daily Aajkal newspapers. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Geo News where he hosts a popular political program: “aapas ki baat”. He is the only journalist in Asia to receive three international press freedom awards in a decade.Sethi graduated from Government College, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1967. He was awarded the Presidents Gold Medal topping Punjab University. He took a BA Hons degree in Economics from Cambridge University, UK, in 1970 and was awarded the Davies Prize by Clare College, where he later spent a year as a PhD research fellow.

Nusrat Javed is a renowned Pakistani journalist at Aaj TV Pakistan. He is currently the co-host with Mushtaq Minhas of a talk show “Bolta pakistan”. He previously was the co-host with Mushtaq Minhas of a talk show Dunya Merey Agay at dunya TV. The daily show Bolta Pakistan started on May 8 2007 quickly became popular with the audience and his outspoken style drew direct criticism from Musharraf Administration.The show Bolta Pakistan aired on weeknights, Monday to Friday at 11 PM Pakistan Standard Time was forced off-air during 2007 Pakistani state of emergency imposed by General Musharraf.

Haroon Rasheed:Is one of the Leading Columnist of pakistan.he wrote column in Jang newspaper and works with Geo group of network.He also Consider as one of the leading analyst of politics.his vision is broad and his most of the prediction about the coming days of Future politics is true.he belongs to the middle class family.In start of his carrier he spend his life in misery but later in because of his constant struggle he got the major post in Literature.