India is the largest country in South Asia and its leaders never tire of boasting that India is the super power of the region and a potential world power. Indira doctrine advocated India’s unrestricted influence over the whole region. India is past master in covert operations and propaganda war and habitually resorts to intrigues, economic coercion and blackmail. It never shies of threatening to use militar ...

“Oh Morning breeze if you happen to pass over to Geneva, Tell them that a nation was sold but was sold very cheap”.  -  Dr. Allama Iqbal Six and half decades have gone past and Kashmir dispute is yet to be resolved. No light is seen at the end of the tunnel and people of Kashmir continue to suffer immensely under the boots of Indian security forces. It has remained unsolved because of India’s intransigence ...

By Sajjad Shaukat  The government of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) led by the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is determined to have peace dialogue with the Taliban, especially Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which has continued its subversive acts before, during and after the general elections 2013. On the other hand, while accepting the offer, the TTP spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid has recommended that the ...

Srinagar, Aug 28: Two persons including a woman were injured after suspected RAW's agents  opened fire at main Bazar Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Sources stated that two individuals  on a motorbike attacked Awantipora resulting in injuries to two civilians. A police spokesman in a statement said that two civilians were injured when militants opened fire in open market at Awantipora Bazar ...

[caption id="attachment_4607" align="alignright" width="230"] Protests against human rights violations have been a hallmark of the armed conflict in Kashmir.[/caption] ‘New Delhi hell bent upon seizing land in JK’ Srinagar, Aug 28: (GNS) Terming the Tosmaidan lease extension agreement unacceptable Hurriyat Conference Wednesday said any such move would add to agonies of locals as entire population is already ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat With the support of the US, both India and Israel have been acting upon a secret diplomacy, targeting China and Pakistan. In this context, Israel’s Ambassador to India, Mark Sofer in an interview to the Indian weekly Outlook on February 18, 2008 disclosed about India’s defence arrangements with Tel Aviv, and joint exercises in the Indian Ocean, saying, “We do have a defence relationship w ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Terror-related incidents such as bomb blasts, suicide attacks, abductions, target killings, ethnic and sectarian violence including assaults on security forces and law-enforcing agencies have enveloped Pakistan, especially Karachi, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Regrettably, these security forces and law-enforcing agencies are not only targeted by terrorists, but are also under stric ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Although Indian blame game against Pakistan about violations at the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir has hidden purposes, yet it has been creating anti-Pakistan chauvinism.  Even such a phenomenon was also created by Indian rulers in normal circumstances, when in May 1998; New Delhi detonated five nuclear tests, and compelled Pakistan to follow the suit. However, by acting upon a preplann ...