By General Mirza Aslam Beg Former COAS, Pakistan friendscolumn@hotmail.com Imran Khan introduced “Dharna” in 2014, to bring about regime change. The same now has recoiled back on him, knocking at his doors with greater intensity. The Religious Right under Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) having remained a marginalized political entity for the last seventy two year, has suddenly emerged ...

By Sajjad Shaukat More than 75 days have been passed. But, India has continued military clampdown and strict communications blackout in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) by continuing curfew in wake of shortage of foods and even medicines for the patients. Tensions between India and Pakistan accelerated on August 5, this year, when New Delhi unilaterally annexed the IOK, revoking articles 35A and 370 of the ...

 نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں سیاست کے لیے ایک میرٹ تو یہ ہے کہ آپ کسی سیاستدان کی اولاد ہوں پھر چاہے کو ئی سیاسی فہم اور تدبر ہو یانہ ہواس سے کوئی فرق نہیں پڑتا دوسرا میرٹ یہ ہے بلکہ بہت اہم یہ ہے کہ آپ کے پاس اتنی دولت ضرور ہوکہ آپ یا تو گن نہ سکیں اور گن سکیں تو کئی ہفتے یا چلئے کئی دن تو لگیں ورنہ تو کوچہ ء سیاست میں قدم رکھنے کی کوئی گنجائش نہیں اور اگر اتفاقاََ کوئی ”غریب سیاستدان“ کامیاب بھی ہو جائے تو یہ ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited China at a crucial time when epoch making changes and power shift is taking place in the region and beyond. P.M. Imran visited at the invitation of H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier of China from October 8-9, 2019. By all standards, the visit was a resounding success in strategic terms. Premier Imran Khan ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان مدتوں دہشتگردی کا شکار رہا سالوں عوام اس عذاب سے گزرتے رہے بلکہ اب بھی کسی نہ کسی صورت میں گزر رہے ہیں اور وقتا فوقتا دھماکے اور دہشت گردی کی خبریں آتی رہتی ہیں جس سے پتہ چلتا ہے کہ دشمن اب بھی سرگرم عمل ہے اور اس کے کارندے کسی نہ کسی صورت میں ملک کے اندر موجود ہیں اور اپنے آقاؤں کے اشاروں پر ناچ رہے ہیں تاہم اللہ تعالیٰ کے فضل اور پاک فوج اور دیگر سیکیورٹی اداروں کی قربانیوں سے ہم اس عفری ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Tensions between India and Pakistan reached a feverish pitch on August 5, this year, when New Delhi unilaterally annexed the occupied Kashmir, revoking articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution which gave a special status to the disputed territory. A strict lockdown was imposed, which has snapped off ordinary people’s internet and mobile telephone service to hide India’s human rights violat ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian deep state seems to be scared of increasing activities of Sikhs community. To neutralize the growing activities of the community, an orchestrated campaign is under way to term these activities as Pakistan sponsored. Recently, Chief Minister of Indian Punjab Capt (R) Amarinder Singh has alleged that Pakistan dropped weapons inside Indian Punjab through drones for Sikh terror groups, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat An Afghan journalist named Muslim Sherzad has been arrested by Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) for his alleged negative remarks contrary to Afghanistan government’s official stance. According to Afghan media, the journalist during telephonic conversation in a talk show on September 9, 2019 telecast on Pakistan’s Aaj News TV with Muniza Jehangir, stated: “Afghanistan is not an ...