By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they started accusing Pak Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. The high officials and media of their countries not only blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, but also presumed th ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_13682" align="alignright" width="455"] New Delhi: Ex-servicemen during the 'Sainik Ekta' rally to press for their demands regarding 'one rank, one pension' scheme at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. [/caption] Irrespective of country, pensioners and veterans are part of that community who use to scarify their past for ours today and tomorrow. From the outset ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Mosharraf Zaidi in his article “Lynch mobs in India: lessons for Pakistan” in The New dated October 6, 2015 after briefly highlighting the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri (UP) on suspicions that he had eaten beef and also mentioning ongoing Indian aggression along the LoC in Kashmir has rightly pointed out that germs of religious extremism and intolerance are present on both sides of the d ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Undoubtedly, we always remember the innumerable services and sacrifices of the Pakistan’s Armed Forces, as noted in relation to the military operations again the terrorists—resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), floods, desilting of canals (Bhal Safai) etc, entailing restoration of law and order on many occasions. In the recent past, Armed Forces were in the frontline for ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2670" align="alignright" width="423"] South Asia Conflict Map[/caption] Highlighting inter-related regional problems in his speech at the Central South Asia Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif said on September 29, this year, “Practical steps are required to manage Pak-Afghan borders for gainful conclusion of ...

Since the US-led global war on terror prolonged, media analysts started attributing it with the defeat of the United States and its allies, while opining about acceleration of terror-attacks in the volatile countries, financial crisis, American heavy cost of war etc. But, no one talks about future assessments of the Pakistani author, Sajjad Shaukat, made in his book, “US vs Islamic, Invisible Balance of Pow ...

WASHINGTON — According to Staff Officer his boss Speaker John A. Boehner will resign from Congress and gave up his House seat at the end of October. In fact he was under tremendous pressure since September 17 this year. He is again confronted with a rank-and-file uprising by Republican lawmakers who want to end financing of Planned Parenthood. With Possible Shutdown Nearing, Obama Looks to Take Budget Fight ...

نغمہ حبیب اللہ تعالیٰ نے اپنے دوست ابراہیم ؑ سے بیٹے کی قربانی مانگی باپ نے بیٹے سے اپنے خواب کا ذکر کیا اور سراپا فرماں بردار پسر ا سما عیل ؑ نے باپ کی ہمت بندھائی اور تاریخ انسانی کے اِس عظیم واقعے نے جنم لیا اور رب کریم نے اپنے دوست کی عظیم قربانی کی یاد کو زندہ رکھنے کے لیے اسے اپنے محبوبﷺ کی اُمت پر فرض قرار دیا یعنی دوست کی قربانی کو محبوب پر بھی لاگو کر دیا۔قربانی مسلمانوں پر فرض بھی کر دی اور اسے ان ...