By Sajjad Shaukat Muhammad Afzal Guru was hero of the Kashmir movement, whom India secretly hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. It triggered protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament attack case and awarded death sentence. Afzal had always denied plotting the attack at I ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Strange are the ways in this land of the pure which at times stuns the world by bagging world records in various fields, be it sports, academia, technical and artisan skills, military professionalism, nuclear knowhow, charity, hospitality, or resilience to face crisis. On the other hand, it suffers from the stigma of being the most dangerous country in the world. Ignoring the strengths, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Maqbool Bhat was the initiator of the Kashmir’s struggle, who was hanged by the then Indian regime on February 11, 1984 in Tihar Jail, as the reprisal expressed by New Delhi. In order to pay homage to the initiator of the Kashmir’s struggle, every year, the 11th of February is being celebrated as the martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Bhat. He was hanged to take the revenge of the killing of ...

نغمہ حبیب کہ تم ان کے جلسے سجاتے ہو تم اِن کے ووٹ بناتے ہو اِن کو لیڈر بناتے ہو ان کو ایوانوں میں بھیجتے ہو اور جب یہ تمہارے ہی پیسوں سے تمہارے ہی ٹیکسوں سے تمہارے خون پسینے کی کمائی سے چند سڑکیں بناتے ہیں کچھ ٹیوب ویل لگاتے ہیں کوئی شفاخانہ کسی سکول کی تعمیر کرتے ہیں تو تم پلکیں بچھاتے ہو پتیاں اِن پر لٹاتے ہوں اور پیارے عوام یہ لیڈر اپنی تجوریوں کی گرہ کومزید مضبوط اور محفوظ بنا کر بڑی تسلی کے ساتھ اپنی آ ...

By Sajad Shaukat Protests erupted after the Indian security forces martyred 22-year-young Kashmir leader Burhan Wani on July 8, 2016. A new wave of Indian brutalities has set in with the martyrdom of the eminent leader. In the aftermath of his martyrdom, new uprising (Intifada) started in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Unlike the past, mostly, the young persons are participating in the demonstrations an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, the Ministry of Culture of India started a month-long exhibition of some important documents on Kashmir; kept at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) in New Delhi. The NMML aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. It was founded in 1964 after the death of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where h ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستانی معاشرہ اس وقت جن مسائل سے دو چار ہے اُن میں دہشت گردی اور انتہا پسندی سر فہرست ہیں بلکہ اگر دیکھا جائے تو دہشت گردی کی وجوہات میں بھی انتہا پسندی کا حصہ سب سے زیادہ ہے ہم دوطبقات میں تقسیم ہیں ایک جدت پسندی کے نام پر حد سے نکلے ہوا ہے اور دوسرا مذہب کو آڑ بنا کر دوسروں پر طعنہ زن ہے۔ ہم کہنے کو کہتے ہیں کہ اسلام روا داری کا مذہب ہے لیکن اسے عملاََ ماننے پر آمادہ نہیں ہمارے ہاں جتنا ارزاں ...