By F. Z. Khan India for the last many decades has been enjoying very good economic as well as diplomatic relations with the Arab world; a huge number of Indians, over 7 million, are working in the Gulf states, and the trade ties with UAE, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have earned India the biggest chunk of forex as well as prosperity. But, of late, these relations have been marred by the extremist Hi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, India and China held military-level talks to resolve the current border issue in eastern Ladakh peacefully. But, no breakthrough occurred, as on May 5, this year, drastic tensions arose between New Delhi and Beijing, taking both the countries to the edge of war. In response to India’s construction of roads and airstrips adjacent to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), whic ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان ایک پُر امن ملک ہے جسے اپنے بہت سارے مسائل سے نمٹنا ہے، اس کی سرحد پر ایک بھارت کی موجودگی ہی کافی ہے کہ اس کے امن کو داؤ پر لگائے رکھے لیکن ہو یہ رہا ہے کہ بھارت صرف خود ہی نہیں بلکہ دوسرے پڑوسی ممالک کے ذریعے بھی پاکستان میں فساد برپا کرنے کی کوششوں میں مصروف رہتا ہے۔ افغانستان میں اُس نے وہاں کی حکومتوں کو عرصہ دراز سے ہائی جیک کیا ہوا ہے اور جو چاہتا ہے اُن سے کراتا ہے۔ یہی حال ایران ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although since Narendar Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became Indian prime minister in 2014, he started implementing ideology of Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism), especially by persecuting the Indian Muslims, yet during his second tenure; Modi government accelerated the completion of the agenda, particularly targeting the Muslims. Indian extremist rulers’ various moves such as abroga ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت پاکستان کو آنکھیں دکھاتے دکھاتے یہ بھول گیا تھا کہ اُس کی سرحد پر ایک اوربڑی طاقت بھی موجود ہے جس کا نام چین ہے۔یوں تو بھارت کے اپنے تمام پڑوسیوں سے مسلسل تنازعات رہتے ہیں کبھی سرحدی کبھی آبی کبھی کوئی اور کبھی کوئی اور پاکستان اور چین سے اُس کی کی کھلی جنگیں ہو چکی ہیں لیکن بھارت کے شر سے اُس کے باقی پڑوسی بھی محفوظ نہیں۔ ابھی حال ہی میں نیپال سے اس کا سرحدی تنازعہ ہوا جب اُس نے کالا پانی ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the agreement signed between the US and Taliban on February 29, this year, in Doha-the capital of Qatar, it is committed that within the first 135 days of the deal, the US will reduce its forces in Afghanistan to 8,600 from the current 13,000, working with its other NATO allies to proportionally reduce the number of coalition forces over that period. Under the agreement, if the Taliban ...

Part-1 Asif Haroon Raja Indo-Pakistan antagonism India and Pakistan became independent countries in 1947 but India till to-date has not reconciled to Pakistan’s existence. Kashmir which was left behind by the outgoing British as an unfinished agenda of Partition has remained a bone of contention and has bedeviled their relations. India has been defying UN resolutions giving right of self-determination to th ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In his book, ‘The Prince’, Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them, the use of terror to obtain their goals and foreign adventures to divert the attention of public from internal crises. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. It is regrettable that since Narendar Modi ...