By Sajjad Shaukat Four heavily armed militants on June 29, this year made a brazen terror attack to take over the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) building in country’s high-security commercial hub Karachi. The militants who arrived in a car, opened indiscriminate fire and lobbed grenades at the main gate of the building. Thus, they martyred four security guards and a police officer. The police and Rangers’ of ...

By Sajjad Shaukat European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom have suspended the flight operations of Pakistan’s national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to and from their airports following the statement by Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan that nearly 300 PIA pilots’ licences have been suspended, as these were fake. The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) said that ban on t ...

 by Lt Gen Retd Javed Nasir, Retired It was 29th of August 1967, I was supervising the work of my company of 101 Engineer Battalion on the famous Karakoram Highway, my camp was at Kuksil, just 4 miles from the Khunjrab Top (16500’ above mean sea level) where our Battalion Headquarters was located. I saw the DR (Despatch Rider) approaching me with a broad smile, there must be some good news but what could it ...

نغمہ حبیب کرونا وائرس آیا اور پوری دنیا میں ایسی بڑی تبدیلی لا یا کہ دنیا کے کئی حکمران باوجود بڑے برے دعوؤں کے وہ کچھ نہیں کر سکے نہ کر سکتے تھے جو اس وباء نے کیا۔وہ دنیا جو بڑے بڑے منصوبوں میں گم تھی نہ انسانی جان کی اہمیت تھی نہ صحت کی وہی دنیا بلبلا اٹھی اور تمام منصوبوں کو چھوڑ کراسی ایک منصوبے پر توجہ مرکوز ہو گئی اگرچہ نقصان کو روکا تو نہیں جا سکا لیکن کم کرنے کی کوشش ضرور کی گئی جس کے لیے مختلف ایس ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India which, apparently, claims to be the largest democracy, acting upon the principles of liberalism and secularism has broken all the records of mistreatment of religious minorities by acceleration of violence, genocide and massacre, perpetrated on various ethnic and religious groups. Since Narendar Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became the Indian Prime Minister, he started imp ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s civil and military leaders are repeatedly pointing out that India is planning another false flag operation against Pakistan in order to divert attention from its internal issues and failure of external policy. In this regard, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on June 23, this year: “India is hiding its face after facing humiliation defeat by China…the officials of India ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the most developed countries had direct control on the less developed countries through colonialism. But, neo-imperialism is its most dangerous form, prevalent in the present world. In theory a less developed is free, but in practice, its government and economy are controlled by a developed country indirectly. In these terms, through its military and intelligence agency RAW, I ...

By Sajjad Shaukat It is most regrettable that by ignoring the modern global trends like renunciation of war, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development, India has accelerated alarming arms race in South Asia. In this regard, in its report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed on February 17, 2020 that in 2019, total global military expenditure rose to $1917 ...