By Sajjad Shaukat Although 23rd of March is celebrated every year as the Pakistan Day, but, this time, it has come at a time when Pakistan stands at the crossroads of its destiny, facing internal and external challenges and threats to the national security of the country, which are worrying all the citizens. The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub-continent, when All India Muslim Le ...

Ishaal Zehra Spring is back in Pakistan. And so is the exclusive Defence Day Parade which is annually held on March 23rd to mark the Pakistan Resolution Day. The day when all the Muslims of the sub-continent agreed upon to fight for a country which they can call ‘home’. At this time of the year one can catch quite a glimpses of colours and smiles all around Pakistan. Peace has returned to the country and so ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Patriot Pakistanis had perceived that after the division of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), its leaders would not target the integrity of Pakistan. But, anti-Pakistan activities of the MQM continue unabated. In this respect, in the recent past, Nadeem Nushrat spokesman of the MQM for the Free Karachi campaign has allegedly said that the Pakistan Army was carrying out ethnic cleansing o ...

By Muhammad Jamil LAST month, a man hurled a shoe at Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal while he was addressing a workers’ convention in Narowal. On Saturday, an unidentified person threw ink on the face of Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif during a PML-N workers convention in Sialkot. On Sunday, a former seminary student hurled a shoe at former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Jamia Naeemia seminary in Garhi Shahu wh ...

By Muhammad Jamil On Wednesday, The Readers Club held launching ceremony of the book titled ‘India: an apartheid state’ authored by Dr. Junaid Ahmad. He is an accomplished academician who took upon himself the task to expose the true face of India in his well-researched book, and came to the conclusion that India had emerged as an apartheid state totally dominated by the Hindu fundamentalists. The author ha ...

By  Sajjad Shaukat Muhammad Afzal Guru was hero of the Kashmir movement, whom India secretly hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. It triggered protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament attack case and awarded death sentence. Afzal had always denied plotting the attack at ...

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhDIs the UN-Global Community working to Protect the Civilians in War Zones? Increasingly frightening trend of crimes against humanity committed in the Syrian war signal a major shift in prevalent Western world’s tendency to becalmed and bewildered without any action. After the cold blooded massacres of civilians at Aleppo, the cruelty is being repeated on helpless mankind in Eastern ...

By Cynthia Ritchie As an adventure traveler, I love taking paths lesser known. For me, the journey is more important than the destination. To be immersed in a world of yellow and red fragrant masala spices piled into small mountainous displays along the food streets; seeing women wrapped in colourful panels of scarves and flowing tunics; me slowly picking out words of the regional languages, and watching a ...