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 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the US-led Western countries which spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan held a series of international conferences in order to bring stability and peace in that war-torn country with the aim of starting withdrawal of NATO forces in 2013, which had to be completed in 2014. They had agreed that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be achieved there. Hence, these countr ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 23, this year led a long telethon, televised live on TV channels, to mobilise funds from the people at large to help the deserving persons affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on the event, the Premier Imran appealed to the people to give maximum funds for the “Ehsaas Programme.” The transmission was joined by news anchors representing p ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indo-Pakistan unabated antagonism Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of the Partition in 1947 which was left behind by the British and it has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations. The two arch rivals went to war thrice over Kashmir and reached the brink of war several times even when both acquired nuclear capabilities. Armed Kashmiri uprising erupted in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in summer ...