By Sajjad Shaukat Each year, United Nations Day is celebrated on May 29. On this day in 1945, the United Nations (UN) came into force when the five permanent members of the Security Council ratified its charter This followed a declaration by the UN General Assembly in 1947 which designated 29th of May as United Nations Day, by proclaiming that the day would be instrumental in making people aware of the aims ...

By Sajjad Shauka While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international community by announcing that India has conducted three nuclear tests earlier that day. On May 13, 1998, India conducted two more nuclear tests. In order to create balance of power in South Asia, Pakistan successfully conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Very tension escalated rapidly between India and Pakistan when on February 27, this year, in response to the Indian so-called pre-emptive air strike near the town of Balakot, close to the border with Pakistan’s sector of Kashmir, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shot down two Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets and launched aerial strikes at six targets in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Addres ...

“The US is the most warlike nation in the history of the world, forcing other countries to adopt our American principles.” - Jimmy Carter Asif Haroon Raja America’s history of aggression While there is a prevalent belief among the Americans that the US almost always wages war for noble purposes and in defense of freedom, global public opinion and facts paint a very different picture. Most countries surveyed ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_15227" align="alignright" width="311"] Maulana Fazlullah, new Pakistani Taliban leader. The Pakistani Taliban vowed to set up a wave of revenge attacks against the government after naming hardliner Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader. The rise of Fazlullah, whose men shot and badly injured schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai last year, follows the death of previou ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Prime Minister Nerendar Modi’s extremist party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime Minister Modi came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support of fanatic coalition outfits. General elections 2019, which ...

By Sajjad Shaukat General elections 2019, which started in India on April 11 are being held in 7 phases and will continue till May. In a recent move, the ruling party Bhartia Janta Party (BJP) has announced that Sadhavi Pragya Singh Thakur (an accused in Malegaon blast case-2008) joined the party and subsequently, was nominated for Lok Sabha seat from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. It is one of the four seats in M ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India was openly opposing the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is part of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) or China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the US also joined New Delhi. In this context, on October 3, 2017, the then US Defence Secretary James Mattis told the Lawmakers, “The United States has reiterated its support for India’s opposition to China’s One Belt, One Road ...