By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_18183" align="alignright" width="288"] Protestors shout slogans and march on a street after Friday prayers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. A strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir in effect for a fifth day was eased Friday to allow residents to pray at mosques, officials said, but some protests still broke out in the disputed regi ...

By Admiral Afzal Tahir I claim political neutrality and ask you to consider this. The political developments in Pakistan over the last two years cast a profound impact on the recent developments in our region. Change of political government post 2018 elections must be considered a godsend. Pakistan had been continuously losing diplomatic ground over the ten-year period of PPP and PMLN governments. All the c ...

نغمہ حبیب کشمیرسلگ رہا ہے اور دنیا یہ تماشا دیکھ رہی ہے ایسا کچھ اب سے نہیں اس خطے نے جانے کب آزادی کا سورج دیکھا تھا۔ آج سے تقریباًکچھ کم صدی پہلے علامہ اقبال نے افسوس کرتے ہوئے کہا تھا۔ آج وہ کشمیر ہے محکوم و مجبور و فقیر کل جسے اہل نظر کہتے تھے ایران صغیر اس خطے کو کسی نے جنت نظیر کہا کسی نے ایران صغیر کہا کچھ نے فردوس بریں کہا لیکن اس کے قدرتی حسن کی تعریف مکمل نہ ہوئی۔ آج یہی کشمیر ظلم کی چکی میں پس رہ ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت اِن دنوں ہزیمتوں کی زد میں ہے وہی مودی جس کو عظیم لیڈر قرار دینے کی کوشش کی جارہی تھی پے در پے شکست کھا رہا ہے۔ پاکستان چین اور نیپال کے ہاتھوں پٹنے کے بعد اب اُسے ایران میں سبکی کا سامنا کرنا پڑرہا ہے۔ ایران اور بھارت کے درمیان معاہدہ طے پایا تھا کہ بھارت ایران کی خلیج اومان میں ایک چھوٹی سی بندرگاہ چاہ بہار کو تعمیر کرنے اور اسے وسعت دینے کے لیے ایران کی مدد کرے گاچاہ بہار بحر ہندسے نزدیک ...

Rejoinder to Praveen Swami by Asif Haroon Raja Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of the two archrivals. Messages have been conveyed in a subtle way under the guise of revival of talks and friendship. The motivation behind writing this article is the floati ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The year 2020 upon which we had pinned high hopes for better days ahead is proving to be another difficult year. The whole world is in a flux and hardly any corner is safe from troubles. End of super power rivalry and the 45 years Cold War should have made the unipolar world under the USA peaceful. Instead, initiation of destructive global war on terror by the crusaders after 9/11 to mak ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The term of terrorism has been so confused that there is no exact definition of terrorism. The problem is confined to political terrorism which occurs when a group, whether holding governmental office or outside government, resolves to pursue a set of ideological objectives by methods which not only subvert or ignore the requirements of domestic and international law, but also rely for the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The former Soviet Union which had subjugated the minorities and ethnic groups in various provinces and regions through its military, disintegrated in 1991. Even its nuclear weapons could not save its collapse. One of the important causes of the disintegration of the former Russian Empire was that its greater defence expenditure exceeded to the maximum, resulting into economic crises inside ...