By Sajjad Shaukat People belonging to various segments of society including political parties and other important dignitaries came out on the streets of London in UK on October 26, this year, and participated in the Kashmir Million March to express solidarity with the citizens of Indian-held Kashmir in their decades-long struggle for the right of self-determination. It started from the Trafalgar Square and ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary general, World Kashmir Awareness Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream / I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been / To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen / They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed....  --lyrics by Jimmy Page from the song Kashmir, performed by Led Zeppel ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat                           27th of October is celebrated every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the people of Jammu and Kashmir as the Black Day, because, in gross violation to law and ‘Partition Plan of the Indian Sub-continent’, India forcibly landed its military in princely State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on 27 October 1947. On July 19, 1947, m ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Within four months, clearing more than 80 percent areas in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan’s Armed Forces have almost defeated the ferocious militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has rapidly been achieving its objectives. Present different war between Pakistan’s Armed Forces and the TTP insurgents is simply a ‘clash of wills’ between two ...

 By Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                      There had been a heart wrenching  story of mass suicides by Indian Punjab farmers(7000 up to now) under the burden of unpaid debt  of state and private lenders, in an Indian magazine(The Week, August 2014) sometime ago. Besides the vast scale of human tragedy and stupendous official apathy what was most striking was the fact that a major canal tha ...

By Rida Zaheer RAWALPINDI: According to ISPR, Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) killed four civilians and three others d injured on Eid Day.  (BSF) opened fire near the Sialkot working boundary when these innocent family preparing for their Eid Celebrations. The dead included Salima Bibi, 10-year-old Adeel Ahmed, four-year-old Hamad Ahmed from Dhamala village and 65-year-old Abdul Razzak from Tulsipur vil ...

  By  Sajjad Shaukat                                                             One the one side, Indian new government led by the fundamentalist party BJP’s leader and Prime Minister Narindra Modi is deliberately trying to divert attention of international community from the Kashmir dispute, on the other, Kashmiri leaders and Pakistan have been keeping this issue in limelight. In this regard, terming the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although a full scale military operation Zarb-e-Azb which started in North Waziristan Agency on June 15, this year against the ferocious terrorists led by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) proceeds with appreciable triumph, successfully achieving its planned objectives, yet the terrorists have started to show upsurge in their anti-state activities. Hence, target killing of renowned politica ...