By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, January 5 is celebrated in remembrance of the pledges of the UNO which had guaranteed the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people through plebiscite, while these people have been living under Indian occupation for the last six decades. During the partition of the Sub-continent, the people of the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) which comprised Muslim majority dec ...

By Jahanzeb Afzal Janjua [caption id="attachment_13958" align="alignright" width="270"] The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi visits the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif's home in Raiwind, where his grand-daughter's wedding is being held, at Lahore, Pakistan on December 25, 2015.[/caption] Sometimes an off the cuff remark suddenly strikes you like a thunderbolt. The possibilities that can be in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On December 31, 2014, Indian agencies orchestrated a terror boat drama to defame Pakistan in the world. In this respect, Indian media and high officials unfolded the drama on the New Year’s eve by allegedly reporting that a Pakistani fishing boat as a Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was intercepted by Indian Coast Guards, some 356 km. off the coast of Porebandar, Gujarat. Taking ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_13958" align="alignright" width="433"] The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi visits the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Nawaz Sharif's home in Raiwind, where his grand-daughter's wedding is being held, at Lahore, Pakistan on December 25, 2015.[/caption] Indian Prime Minister Modi landed at Lahore airport on 25th December,2015, went to Pakistani Prime Minister, Naw ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During a visit to Italy’s largest military cemetery of World War I, on November 14, expressing his grief over the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, Pope Francis called them a “piece of a piecemeal World War III…war is madness…even today…fought with crimes, massacres, destruction.” On September 25, this year, at the UN General Assembly, while indicating the unjust global order, Pope Fran ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Besides Christmas, every year, on December 25, Pakistanis celebrate Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jipannah’s birth anniversary with every possible way of showing reverence to their country’s founder. It is called the Quaid-e-Azam Day. Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 and founded Pakistan in 1947. On this very day, seminars, debates and programmes are held to remember the services of the fo ...

By Shah Abdul Halim Sadaqah is only for the poor [fuqaraa] and the needy [masakin] and for those employed to collect the funds [‘amilina ‘alayha] and for bringing the hearts together for Islam [mu ‘allafah qulub] and for freeing captives [fir-riqab] and for those in debt [gharimin] and for the cause of Allah [fi sabilil-lah] and for the wayfarer [ibn as-sabil] - an obligation imposed by Allah [faridatam-min ...

By Sajjad Shaukat No doubt, every country has a superior intelligence agency to protect the national interest of the state. It keeps a vigilant eye on the internal and external threats. Even by playing a double game, it thwarts the anti-state subversion through various means. Quite contrarily, from the very beginning, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been protecting the interests of the Zionist ...