By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 on global level, focusing attention on the water crisis as well as the solutions to address it. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The very agony of the people of Jammu and Kashmir started on March 16, 1846 when the Treaty of Amritsar was signed. Under the Treaty, British colonialists sold Kashmir along with its people e to a Dogra Hindu, Gulab Singh for 7.5 million rupees. The Treaty of Amritsar which was signed by Gulab Singh, Hardinge, Currie and Lawrence had common cause among the parties with the aim to end the M ...

By Sajjad Shaukat After the September 11 tragedy, the Muslim countries which joined the Bush’s fake global war on terror became the target of the US state terrorism which still continues in one way or the other. The US-led troops, supported by CIA have carried out indiscriminate mass round-ups in catching up suspected Muslim men and women in Afghanistan and Iraq, including some Arab countries without eviden ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Son on Slain e Governor Punjab , Mr. Shahbaz Taseer, who was abducted on from the Gulberg area of Lahore on August 26, 2011, was released with concerted efforts of law enforcers agencies in Kuchlak area of Balochistan today (8 Mar 2016). According to Aitzaz Goraya, head of the Counter-Terrorism Department of Balochistan province disclosed to AFP: “Yes, we have recovered him.” “Acting on a ...

By Sajjad Shaukati-Muslim and anti-Pakistan approach, he has been giving impetus to Hindu chauvinism. In line of his policy against Pakistan, India not only accelerated unprovoked firing at the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir and Working Boundary in Sialkot, but also suspended the Secretary level talks with Islamabad. In the recent past, Modi regime has been raising baseless issue like Pathonkot terror att ...

By Sajjad Shaukat An article, under the title, “Pakistan—A key GCC ally”‏, published in the “Arab News” on January 15, 2016, written by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed needs appropriate attention. Abdulrahman mentioned that three million Pakistanis who work in the Gulf countries, and the $4 billion in annual transactions they make, the region considers relations with Pakistan strategic. He elaborates, “The country is ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 5 March 2016, Hillary Clinton a former secretary of state, and Mr. Trump, a property tycoon have again successfully maintained lead against their opponents.  Both are favourites to win the vast majority and scoring better till now for their respective parties.  Mrs. Clinton so far has managed to get the support of 1066 delegates out of 2383 democrats’ delegates.  She is short of 1317 w ...

By Asif Haroon Raja General Afghanistan is connected with South Asia, Middle East and Central Asia. It shares 1400 km border with Pakistan and its 42% of Afghan Pashtuns share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pakistani Pashtuns. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border has never acted as a barrier in their cross border movement. Pa ...