By Sajjad Shaukat Implementing the August 5 announcement which revoked the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, Indian central government issued a notorious map on October 31, this year. In accordance with it, Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two union territories— Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement that Islamabad “rejects these political map ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, various conferences and seminars have been held regarding the security of nuclear weapons and radioactive materials, as the participant countries were worried that terrorist outfits like the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL) may get these fatal weapons and can use against a state actor or any country to create misunderstanding, which may culminat ...

جنرل مرزا اسلم بیگ سابق چیف آف آرمی سٹاف پاکستان Email: friendsfoundation@live.co.uk حکومت کی تبدیلی کے لئے دھرنے کی روایت عمران خان نے 2014میں ڈالی تھی جس کا اب خود انہیں سامنا ہے کیونکہ اب وہی ’حکومت کی تبدیلی‘ کی لہر کہیں زیادہ شدت کے ساتھ ان کے اقتدار کے درواز ے تک پہنچ چکی ہے-مولانا فضل الرحمن کی قیادت میں دائیں بازوکی مذہبی جماعتیں جوگذشتہ بہتر سالوں سے سیاسی طور پر بے وقعت رہی ہیں‘ اچانک قومی سیاسی ا ...

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 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 Asif Haroon Raja Geographic aspects of J&K State The State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is situated at the extreme western section of Great Himalayan Range where it merges with Hindu Kush, Karakorum and Central Asia. It borders for about 600 miles with Sinkiang and Tibet provinces of China in north and east, and in the south and west for 580 miles with Pakistan. A 30 miles corridor of Wakhan in Afg ...

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 ...