By Sajjad Shaukat Indian media reported on July 5, this year that the Kolkata police have arrested five men with 1 kg of uranium valued at around Rs. 3 crores ($440,000). The Times of India elaborated that the men had come to Kolkata in the state of West Bengal to try to sell the substance. Police were quoted as saying that two packets of a “yellow-coloured substance” were seized. However, it is not the new ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Having strong foundation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are maintaining a close friendship with each other, which covers religious, strategic, military and economic interests of a great magnitude. People of Pakistan have a strong attachment to Islam. Hence, they enormously respect Saudi Arabia as origin of Islam, where two holiest cities Mecca and Medina are situated. Millions o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat for Veterans Today Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by former cricket star got victory in Pakistan’s general elections, held on July 25, 2018. It was due to the personals of the Pakistan Army who were deputed inside and outside the polling booths that free and fair elections became possible in a peaceful atmosphere. In this regard, addressing a press conference on July 27, this year, Chi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The voters went to the allocated polling stations early in the morning of July 25 to take part in the 13th general elections. The voting started at 8 a.m. amidst sea of doubts, skepticism, hopes and high emotions. 85000 polling stations had been established all over the country and elaborate arrangements were made by the caretakers to ensure free and fair elections. For the first time, t ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Education and research play a key role in the development of a country in various fields. History gives ample evidence that that rise of the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire and the Turkish Empire was the result of research and education. It is because of educational and research institutions that the most developed countries of the West have made progress almost in every field. In fact, lea ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The traditional relations among the independent states have often been explained in terms of power factor or role of force. The leading theorists of realism and neo-realism such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Morgenthau, Waltz and Kissinger agree that power plays a central role in international relations. These power-theorists describe the power factor as the main determinant of world ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Once again, Pakistan came under terrorists’ attacks in the month of July 2018 in which over 160 embraced Shahadat (martyred) and more than 300 people injured. Militancy planners and executors had chosen the time when in Pakistan political hype supposed to be on its peak and gathering of thousands of innocent people available as soft targets due to last month of elections campaign – 2018. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat When Pakistan emerged as the independent state on August 14, 1947, the country inherited 20 percent of the subcontinent’s population. Pakistan’s share in industry was less than seven percent, mostly consisting of small-scale and minor industrial units. Pakistan had no large industry. Pakistan that included East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as well had only 34 factories. The total employment p ...