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 ...

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. By acting upon the same strat ...

میں کوہاٹ کا رہائشی ہوں، میں نے دہشتگردی بھی قریب سے دیکھی ہے اور اسکے خلاف فوجی آپریشن بھی قریب سے دیکھا ہے - کوہاٹ اور درہ آدم خیل کے درمیان صرف ایک پہاڑ ہے ، یعنی اگر آپ پہاڑ کی چوٹی پہ بیٹھیں تو کوہاٹ اور درہ آدم خیل دونوں شہروں کے درمیان بیٹھے ہوں گے - روڈ کے ذریعے اگر آپ سفر کریں تو پندرہ بیس منٹ میں براستہ کوہاٹ ٹنل آپ درہ آدم خیل پہنچ سکتے ہیں - میں نے وہ وقت دیکھا ہے جب گلے کاٹنے والے درہ آدم خیل م ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, Pakistan Army celebrates Youm-e-Shuhada (Martyrs Day) on April 30 and the whole nation joins it to pay tribute to the departed souls of those valiant army officials who sacrificed their lives for the safety and security of the country and its people. Several ceremonies are being held at the Garrisons all over the country, but the main ceremony is being held at Yadqar-e-Shuhada, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Iran on April 21, this year. During his two-day trip, he met Iran’s Supreme Leader Seyyed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. In their meeting, Prime Minister Khan and President Rouhani discussed the entire spectrum of bilateral relations, and the means to further bolster and expand their relations in diverse fields, as ...