By Sajjad Shaukat With national zeal and fervour in different parts of the country, Youm-e-Takbeer is celebrated every year on May 28 to mark the conduction of nuclear tests when on the very day in 1998; Pakistan became the first Muslim and the 7th nuclear country in the world. While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Recently, YouTube was banned in Pakistan after a blasphemous video titled “Innocence of Muslims” was uploaded on it, causing massive protests and riots in the Muslim World, resulting into loss of life and property, while Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya and Iran asked YouTube to block the movie for viewing. Although Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned access to the Yo ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani nation very warmly welcomed newly elected Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in his second home on 22 May 2013. He is on his first trip to abroad.  Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, Prime Minister (retd) Justice Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Chairman Senate Nayyar Bokhari, the Services Chiefs, ministers of the caretaker setup, ambassadors and senior officials received the Chinese lea ...

LAHORE: Hassan,  Newly politically dominated ,  Muslim League-Nawaz (ML-N) has finally  nominated National Party president Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch as Balochistan chief minister. Reliable, sources said that Nawaz Sharif has taken into confidence the allied parties over nomination of Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch and a formal announcement naming him as Balochistan CM would be made in a day or two. ML-N leadership is ...

 Lahore : Sixteen children and a teacher were killed when their school bus caught fire in Mangowal area of Gujrat on Saturday, police said. Seven other children were injured in the blaze which destroyed the vehicle. The van was carrying 24 children to a private school in Gujrat, about 112 kilometres (70 miles) north of the eastern city on Lahore, when it caught fire, DPO Dar Ali Khattak told. "The fire erup ...

Pakistan’s foreign policy will not change with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) coming into power and all agreements signed by the former government, including Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, will be pursued, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani declared on Friday. Addressing a weekly press briefing along with Pakistan ambassador to China Khalid Masood, Jilani said that Pakistan was facing worst ene ...

Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Contemporary affairs represent Pakistani nation as divided people, leaderless who have been exploited by the neo-colonial feudal lords causing catastrophic consequences without accountability and engaged in looting the people of their socio-economic, moral and political consciousness for a sustainable future. The nation was incapacitated to THINK with REASON for its future. Elections ...

Friday Feature-The Spirit Of Islam Mufti Taqi Usmani Friday, May 24, 2013 - Rajab is the seventh month in the Islamic lunar calendar. This month was regarded as one of the sacred months (Al-Ashhur-al-hurum) in which battles were prohibited in the days of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). It is also a prelude to the month of Ramadan, because Ramadan follows it after the intervening month of Sha’ban. Therefore, when t ...