By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Guru is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since 1990, the 5th of February is being celebrated by Pakistanis and Kashmiris as the Kashmir Solidarity Day to pay homage to Kahsmiri martyrs and to show solidarity with the freedom fighters who are demanding their legitimate right of self-determination, as recognized by the UN resolutions. This time, this very day has come at time when the people of Kashmir have accelerated their legiti ...

Unlimited Greed Brings Pakistan Media Under Overdue Scrutiny, Much Needed Axe By Shaheen Sehbai THE LAST DECADE or so has seen the Pakistan media, especially the TV guys, grab immense power and unmatched notoriety while making tons  of money, mostly undeserved. All this was done, in most cases, while blatantly flouting basic media ethics. Some media houses had actually started believing and publicly claimin ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The former Soviet Union which had subjugated ethnic and religious communities in various provinces and regions through its military and intelligence agency KGB disintegrated in 1991. Even, its nuclear weapons could not save its collapse. One of the major causes of the disintegration of the former Russian Empire was that its greater defence expenditures exceeded to the maximum, resulting in ...

Asif Haroon Raja When I was serving as Director Psychological Operations (Psy Ops) in GHQ way back in early 1990s, I had the privilege of revolutionizing this neglected subject and upgrading its significance in the Army in a big way for the first time. The then Army Chief Gen Asif Nawaz backed my efforts. I had argued that while the armed forces prepared itself during peace time for the future war by carryi ...

نغمہ حبیب علم اور تعلیم ملک کے ہر شہری کا بنیادی حق ہے اور حکومت کی ذمہ داری ہے کہ اس کا حصول ممکن،آسان اور معیاری بنائے۔ملک میں اس وقت سرکاری اور نجی سکولوں کے ساتھ ساتھ مدارس کا وسیع نظام کام کر رہاہے ہر ایک اپنے اپنے نکتہء نظر کے مطابق مصروف عمل ہے اور اس نکتہء نظرمیں ایک واضح اور وسیع تفاوت موجود ہے بلکہ کئی جگہوںیہ پر ایک دوسرے کی ضد ہیں کہیں ایک طریقہء تعلیم رائج ہے تو کہیں دوسرا اگر چہ کئی نظام ہائے ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the one side, every year, 26th of January, is being celebrated by India as the Republic Day while, on the other side, the day is being observed by the Kahmiris on both side of the Line of Control (LoC) and all over the world, including their Pakistani brethren as the Black Day in protest against Indian illegal occupation of Kashmir. This time, this very day has come at time when the peo ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Despite continuous employment of brutal tactics by the Indian security forces on the innocent Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), war of liberation has accelerated. The Kashmiri struggle has entered the turning point, putting the question mark, has India lost Kashmir? With the intensity of war of liberation and Indian state terrorism in the IOK, pressure on the Indian governmen ...