Shared by Ram Puniyani Posted by Zaheerul Hassan The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are burning midnight oil yet again to understand the deeper causative factors of the same. One of the neglected aspects of analysis of communal violence has been the one related to prevalent factor of Caste in Indian society. Caste is in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Coronavirus pandemic also named as COVID-19 which is, rapidly, spreading across the world has killed more than 22,000 people and infected over 510,000 people despite lockdowns in many countries, especially Western states, putting over 1.3 billion in self-isolation. After affecting 200 countries, the disease is enveloping new territories. In Spain and Italy, more persons have died due to CO ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, people of Pakistan celebrate the 23rd of March as the Pakistan Day, with great enthusiasm and zeal. But, this time, this very day has come at a time when Pakistan is facing multiple challenges, which are worrying all the citizens. While Pakistan’s Armed Forces are coping with these challenges successfully. More than seven months have passed. But, Indian fanatic government led b ...

Author: Tahir Mehmood Genre: Short-Stories (Fiction) Publisher: Ferozsons (Pvt.) Ltd. Publication Year: March-2020 Pages: 116, Price: Rs 395 Reviewed by Asma Ishaq Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Pick up Tahir Mehmood’s book “A Lone Long Walk” and you will enjoy reading it till the last page. The book consists of short stories that the writer wrote over a span of six years – from 2014 to 2019. The 116-page book p ...

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 ...

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 ...