By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the US-led Western countries which spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan held a series of international conferences in order to bring stability and peace in that war-torn country with the aim of starting withdrawal of NATO forces in 2013, which had to be completed in 2014. They had agreed that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be achieved there. Hence, these countr ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on April 23, this year led a long telethon, televised live on TV channels, to mobilise funds from the people at large to help the deserving persons affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on the event, the Premier Imran appealed to the people to give maximum funds for the “Ehsaas Programme.” The transmission was joined by news anchors representing p ...

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 Arundhati Roy Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers, this place where we are gathered today is only a short bus ride away from where four days ago a fascist mob, fired up by speeches made by members of the Ruling Party, backed up and actively assisted by the police, assured of round the clock support by a vast section of the electronic mass media, and comforted by the belief that the courts wou ...

سعودی عرب کے ولی عہد محمد بن سلمان نے حالیہ سالوں میں کئی ایسے اقدامات اٹھائے ہیں جن کی وجہ سے صرف سعودی عرب میں ہی نہیں بلکہ پورے مشرق وسطیٰ میں افراتفری کا ماحول بنا ہوا ہے۔یمن جنگ، قطر ناکہ بندی، اخوان المسلمون کی دشمنی، کرپشن کے نام پر سیاسی گرفتاریاں، مذہبی شخصیات کی حراست، حریتِ نسواں، 2030کا منصوبہ، خافجی کا قتل اوراب حالیہ دنوں میں شاہی خاندان کے سرکردہ شخصیات کی گرفتاریاں سعودی عرب کے  خارجی اور دا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World. Besides, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely to be completed in the near future. Therefore, some Western countries, especially India and Afghanistan are continuously using their secret agencies in destabilising Pakistan, as development of this country annoy them. In this connection, on February 11, this year, some med ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Ice started melting between the United States and Pakistan after a long patch of tense relations after the three-day visit of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to the US where he met American President Donald Trump on July 22, 2019 to mend the strained relations between the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa also accompanied the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In a ceremony which was attended by notables from Russia, China, Qatar and other key players, including the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Doha-the capital of Qatar on February 29, this year, the US and the Taliban have signed the historical agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan after more than 18 years of conflict. The deal ...