By Tahir Mehmood “I am proud of my martyred son. He has shown us the way to love and serve Pakistan.” This is a solid rock declaration by a proud father who lost his youngest son Captain Bilal Zafar on 17 May 2009 while fighting against terrorists in Peochar Valley, Swat. His second son, Captain Zarar Zafar has just come back from graveyard after praying Fateha on the grave of his loving brother Captain Bil ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Showing aggressive designs against Pakistan, on May 11, 1998, India conducted three nuclear tests and on May 13, 1998, two nuclear tests. Notably, both the countries have waged three wars, especially on the issue of the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Therefore, in response, Pakistan successfully carried out its five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 and the sixth one on May 30, 1998. In this r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In his book, “Politics Among Nations”, renowned thinker, Hans J. Morgenthau opined that external policy of a country should be moulded in accordance “with the exigencies and circumstances of time and place”, otherwise, there will be “failure of the foreign policy.” But, without bothering for the reaction of the international community, Indian extremist Prime Minister Narendra Modi-the lead ...

By Sajjad Shaukat After the World War 11, nuclear weapons were never used and were only employed as a strategic threat. During the heightened days of the Cold War, many crises arose in Suez Canal, Korea, Cuba and Vietnam when the United States and the former Soviet Union were willing to use atomic weapons, but they stopped because of the fear of nuclear war which could eliminate both the superpowers. Theref ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Surprisingly, Pakistan’s media did not give much coverage to the removal of country’s diplomat from service and manipulation of the issue by the Indian media at this critical hour when top officials of the Indian extremist Prime Minister Narendra Modi-the leader of the fanatic ruling party BJP and their media leave no stone unturned in maligning Pakistan through a continuous blame game in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID-19 is rapidly spreading in Pakistan, some political entities are creating obstacles by creating controversy over 18th Amendment. Regrettably, they are doing politics over this sensitive issue. In this regard, on April 28, this year, the leader of the opposition parties, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, president PML-N Shahbaz Sharif and J ...

From a friend Posted By Zaheerul Hassan کہا جاتا ہے کہ فوج کی زندگی بالعموم متوسط طبقہ کے لوگ بخوشی جوائن کرتے ہیں. یہ تاثر بھی ہے کہ فوج میں نوکری سے جہاں طاقت اور رعب کا احساس ہوتا ہے وہیں خوشحال زندگی بھی میسر آتی ہے. آج بلوچستان میں چھ جوانوں کے ہمراہ شہادت پانے والے میجر ندیم عباس بھٹی شہید کو اگر خوشحال زندگی کا حصول مقصود ہوتا تو وہ اپنے سیاسی خاندان کی طرح سیاست کا حصہ بنتے. ان کے چچا مہدی حسن بھٹی ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the advent of social media, it is much difficult for rulers and politicians to speak lies and to hide information. In this regard, despite twisting the facts, under the regime of the Prime Minister Minister Narendra Modi, India’s religious bigotry has continued unabated against the religious minorities, especially the Muslims. In this respect, the United States Commission on Internati ...