By Arundhati Roy Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers, this place where we are gathered today is only a short bus ride away from where four days ago a fascist mob, fired up by speeches made by members of the Ruling Party, backed up and actively assisted by the police, assured of round the clock support by a vast section of the electronic mass media, and comforted by the belief that the courts wou ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During an interview to a private TV channel on March 15, this year, Pakistan’s Foreign Office’s (FO) former spokesperson Tasneem Aslam made some revelations about the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which shows his pro-Indian approach. Ms. Tasneen Aslam said that during the tenure of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the FO had been instructed not to deliver statements against India ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Globally almost 6,000 people have died, and more than 2000,000 have been infected by coronavirus pandemic, also named as COVID-19, Besides Asia and Africa, this virus has enveloped Western countries including, Italy, France, Germany, UK, Spain, USA etc. Now, coronavirus is rapidly spreading on our planet. Therefore, many Western countries have closed the academic institutions, while some s ...

سعودی عرب کے ولی عہد محمد بن سلمان نے حالیہ سالوں میں کئی ایسے اقدامات اٹھائے ہیں جن کی وجہ سے صرف سعودی عرب میں ہی نہیں بلکہ پورے مشرق وسطیٰ میں افراتفری کا ماحول بنا ہوا ہے۔یمن جنگ، قطر ناکہ بندی، اخوان المسلمون کی دشمنی، کرپشن کے نام پر سیاسی گرفتاریاں، مذہبی شخصیات کی حراست، حریتِ نسواں، 2030کا منصوبہ، خافجی کا قتل اوراب حالیہ دنوں میں شاہی خاندان کے سرکردہ شخصیات کی گرفتاریاں سعودی عرب کے  خارجی اور دا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World. Besides, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely to be completed in the near future. Therefore, some Western countries, especially India and Afghanistan are continuously using their secret agencies in destabilising Pakistan, as development of this country annoy them. In this connection, on February 11, this year, some med ...

By Hassan khan Indian movi makers and director temporarily halt shootings of their movies. Recently Shahid Kapoor suspended the shooting so that unit members to be with their families and in the safety of their homes. Since global outbreak of the Coronavirus, the entertainment industry has taken a hit. Several films are being pushed back from their intended release dates and movies like Baaghi 3 are seeing ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Ice started melting between the United States and Pakistan after a long patch of tense relations after the three-day visit of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to the US where he met American President Donald Trump on July 22, 2019 to mend the strained relations between the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa also accompanied the ...

By Ram Puniyani In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act, as she is critical of CAA. Responding to her, India’s Foreign Minister S. Jai Shanker strongly rebutted her criticism, saying that the body (UNHCR) has been wrong and is blind to the ...