By Sajjad Shaukat In the agreement signed between the US and Taliban on February 29, this year, in Doha-the capital of Qatar, it is committed that within the first 135 days of the deal, the US will reduce its forces in Afghanistan to 8,600 from the current 13,000, working with its other NATO allies to proportionally reduce the number of coalition forces over that period. Under the agreement, if the Taliban ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In his book, ‘The Prince’, Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them, the use of terror to obtain their goals and foreign adventures to divert the attention of public from internal crises. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. It is regrettable that since Narendar Modi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indo-Pakistan unabated antagonism Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of the Partition in 1947 which was left behind by the British and it has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations. The two arch rivals went to war thrice over Kashmir and reached the brink of war several times even when both acquired nuclear capabilities. Armed Kashmiri uprising erupted in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in summer ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت بیس کروڑ مسلمانوں کا ملک ہے لیکن اس ملک میں اِن بیس کروڑ مسلمانوں کی حیثیت بس اتنی ہے کہ جس کا دل چاہا جہاں چاہا انہیں نشانہ بنا لیا جُرم کو ئی ہو نہ ہووہ مجرم بن جاتے ہیں اور ان کے خلاف کام کرنے والے ہیرو۔بی جے پی کا نریندرا مودی ہو یا کانگریس کی اندرا گاندھی ان کے عظیم ہونے کے لیے یہی کافی ہے کہ وہ مسلمانوں کے قاتل ہیں چاہے وہ مسلمان بھارت کے اندر کا ہو یا پاکستان کا۔ان کو ووٹ ہی اسی بات ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat It is misfortune that as part of the Indian venomous propaganda campaign, in his article, published in Japan Times on April 14, 2020 under the caption “The other contagion: Political and religious fanaticism”, Indian writer Brahma Chellaney has shown misconceptions about the Muslims, some Islamic countries, including Pakistan and China in relation to the Coronavirus outbreak. Brahma Chella ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The major countries intervene in the internal affairs of the small countries under the guise of various pretexts. In this regard, Hans J. Morgenthau opines: “The true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological justifications and rationalization. Therefore, the ideology provides a mask behind which the ulterior motives are concealed…there is a close relationship between interest and i ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has almost enveloped the entire world. Up to April 13, 2020, globally, it killed more than 113,849 persons and infected 1.8 million people. As regards Pakistan, up to the same date, the number of coronavirus-deaths has reached the figure of 95, whereas the number of persons, affected by the virus is 5,478. Unlike Asia and Africa, this novel virus has badly a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Historically, India has continued interventionist and hegemonic policies vis-à-vis her neighbouring countries through its military and intelligence agency RAW. Besides supporting separatism in East Pakistan which resulted in dismemberment of Pakistan and continued assistance to the separatist elements of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, New Delhi occupied Sikkim, subdued Bhutan. It particu ...