Mr. Sainath has reported on rural India for more than two decades. Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national attention and focused it on the problems torment ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India’s special anti-terror court on April 16 acquitted Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) preacher Swami Aseemanand and four others in the Mecca (Masjid) blast case, holding that the prosecution failed to prove even a single allegation against them. Apart from Aseemanand, those acquitted are–Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma, Bharat Mohanlal Rateshwar alias Bharat Bhai and Rajendra Chowdhary. But, ...

Observation by Balbir Singh Sooch Posted by Zaheerul Hassan MISLEADING AND DECEIVING DALIT POLITICS IN INDIA Mayawati as Dalit Leader, Her Relation physically and politically normally supposed to be with DALITS by all means: BUT SHE IS NOT DALIT IN ANY MANNER, Judging her projection from many angles in the context of Indian Politics and as to how the real operation of the secret agencies prevailing in the m ...

By Sajjad Shaukat 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 There are no permanent friends and enemies in international politics, because friendship and enmity change in accordance with the states’ interests which are of primary importance. In this regard, after having strong relationship with the United States for more than 60 years, a shift has occurred in Pak-US ties because of a number of reasons, and Pakistan has inclined towards the Russian F ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the fundamentalist government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, various extremist policies have continued unabated by the Indian rulers. In this respect, rising number of crime against women, especially rapes are attributable to religious fanaticism and lack of law enforcement. In this recent past, the brutal gang rape and murder o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Modern history of terrorism shows that it has gone through distinct phases, with shifting missions, messages, and means of mobilizing. But, owing to the US President Donald Trump’s Israeli connections, terrorism has entered the dangerous phase. Everyone knows that Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban were created by the American CIA to fight against the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. In this r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat My father Squadron Leader Abdul Ali Shaukat (Retd) who was 94 years old, passed away on Wednesday (On May 16, 2018). He served in the education branch of the Pakistan Air Force as psychologist at the Inter Services Selection Board (ISSB) for more than 30 years. ISSB selects the candidates for the commissioned officers of Army, Air Force and Navy. My father was  granted 10 years extension i ...