By Sajjad Shaukat On December 16, 2014, in one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, six Taliban militants mercilessly killed least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, They also burnt a lady teacher alive. After eight hours operation, Pak Army’s commandos cleared the school area, and six militants were killed. On the same d ...

The topic has been selected for discussion in the wake of wide scale criticism heaped upon the parliamentary system which we adopted after our independence. 72 years have lapsed but parliamentary democracy has yet not matured and has fallen much short of expectations. It has become a cause of instability rather than stability. The system began to rot after 1988 during the democratic era and became rotten du ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Each year, Human Rights Day is observed all over the world, especially by the oppressed nations on December 10, as on this very day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It reflected the conviction that human dignity is at the heart of our societies and that respect for human rights is essential to the prevention of conflict and the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A report of the watchdog groups entitled ‘Fanning the Flames’, published by the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) on October 31, 2019 provided facts-based evidence regarding complicity of major technological platforms and US corporations in promoting ‘white supremacy’, anti-Muslim’ bigotry and violence across the world. In fact, after the orchestrated drama of the September 11 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat 27 years ago, Indian Constitution which claims India to be a secular state was torn into pieces when on December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (Volunteers) entirely demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid (Mosque) in Ayodhya, Utter Pradesh in a preplanned attempt to reclaim the land known as RAM Janmabhoomi–birthplace of the god. The demolition of the Babri Masjid sparked Musl ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_17679" align="alignright" width="433"] Students and activists chant slogans demanding the restoration of student union during a country wide student solidarity march in Hyderabad, Pakistan November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Yasir Ali NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.[/caption] Being the only nuclear country in the Islamic World, Pakistan has become special target of some foreign ent ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On November 28, this year, in a short verdict, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) granted six-month conditional extension of service to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa whose tenure was supposed to finish on November 28, 2019. Reading the verdict, the CJP said that army chief’s tenure period had not been ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On November 26, 2008, several persons were killed in the simultaneous terror attacks in Mumbai. Without any investigation, Indian high officials and media had started blaming Pakistan. Mumbai attack was just another false flag operation of Indian establishment to gain sympathies of world community and defame Pakistan in the comity of nations. The whole drama was staged to put blame Pakista ...