By Sajjad Shaukat The ongoing military operation Zarb-e-Azb which started on Jun 15, 2014 against the militants in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) is successfully achieving its objectives. On June 10, this year, Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif, while recounting the successes of security forces in the Zarb-e-Azb said, “Terrorists have been cleared and dislodged from their strongholds in North Wazirista ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The ink on Pak-China agreements related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was barely dry when some western media, especially Indian secret agency RAW started playing up the Baloch insurgency. In this regard, the director of The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, 2015, followed by a bomb blast in Sibi, wh ...

San Francisco, CA (June 07, 2015)( ZM): Thousands of North American Sikhs converged in downtown San Francisco to commemorate the 31st year of Indian Army’s invasion of Golden Temple in which thousands of Sikh pilgrims were massacred. A highly visible stage at the San Francisco City Hall carried the larger than life portrait of slain Sikh separatist leader Sant Bhindranwle, while the speakers paid homage to ...

By Asif Haroon Raja From the very outset, India has been scheming to harm Pakistan which she considers as a thorn in her flesh. Going by the book of Kautilya, India has been befriending the enemies of Pakistan and also trying to spoil Pakistan’s relations with its friends. To start with, India whispered into the ears of Afghan leadership to make Durand Line disputed and to raise the stunt of Pakhtunistan. S ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is a peace loving country and has been subjected to worse kind of terrorism. All amicable efforts to negotiate with the terrorist outfits have failed. In fact, Indian covert and overt activities against the federation of Pakistan had led to the separation of the former East Pakistan in 1971. Now, India has been promoting sub-nationalism in Baluchistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Sindh and ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Responsible welfare states irrespective of religion, language, casts, sects, and culture certainly need to protect the rights of its inhabitants whether they belong to majority or majority segments of society. Failing which can stimulate irrecoverable differences, widening the gaps among the society and ultimately let the suppressed people to adopt their own course of action for obtaining ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism, cross-border terrorism etc. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty executed in direct response to some dem ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی یہ بین حقائق اگرہمہ وقت ہمارے پیشِ نظر رہیں تو ہم کبھی گمراہ نہیں ہوسکتے، کبھی حق اور سچائی کی راہ سے نہیں بھٹک سکتے، حق اور سچائی کی راہ پر گامزن اقوام‘ اُن کے لیڈر اگر اِن روشن اور ہدایتِ یافتہ راستوں پر چلنے کے لئے خود آمادہ اور تیار کرلیں‘ مطلب یہ کہ جب کسی بھی سماج اور معاشرے میں انسانی اور اخلاقی قدروں کا زوال عروج پر پہنچ جاتا ہے تو اُن کو مادّی‘ معاشی خوشحالی اور فراغت زوال سے مح ...