BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI The writing was on the wall. Pentagon refused to pay Pakistan military $300 in military reimbursements. This followed when US secretary of Defence Ash Carter informed Congress of Pakistan’s failure to take steps against Haqqani network. This fund comes under CSF. “Pakistan rejects harbouring militants but says there are limits to how much it can do as it is already fighting multiple Isl ...

By Sajjad Shaukat According to his family, a Pakistani citizen, Lieutenant Colonel (R) Muhammad Habib Zahir who went to Nepal looking for a job has been disappeared. Lt. Col. (R) Zahir left for Nepal on April 5 and the next day reached the country’s capital, Kathmandu. Thereon he went to Lumbini, which is about six kilometres from the Indian border. The disappearance of Lt. Col. (R) Zahir in Nepal cannot be ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A man died and at least 11 people were injured in the early hours of Monday (June 19, 2017) morning after a van was rammed into a crowd of Muslims worshipers in Finsburry Park near a mosque in north London. Eyewitnesses reported chaotic scenes, as the incident unfolded just after midnight, when worshipers had just finished evening Ramadan prayers. They said that the driver shouted, “I want ...

By Ali Sukhanver Some people suggest that Pakistan must say good-bye to Afghan affairs. In other words they suggest that Pakistan must let Afghanistan burn in fire of intrigues and conspiracies and must ignore the sorry plight of those whom Pakistan has been entertaining and accommodating for more than thirty years. Such people ignore a very important thing while giving this suggestion that Pakistan’s own p ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal The mother of all crimes Even the best and the most powerful law or constitution stands powerless and easily violated if there exists no powerful authority to enforce that. In absence of such an authority, even the most magnificent laws of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la stay defunct. In such a state, even the heart land of Islam go under the full occupation of the evil. The rule of the w ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In its 2017 annual report on religious freedom in the world, released on April 26, 2017, US Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended 16 countries, including Pakistan for their deteriorated condition of religious freedom and demanded from US Department of State to designate these countries as Countries of Particular Concern (CPC). On the state of religious free ...

نغمہ حبیب زکوۃ اسلام کا چوتھا رکن ہے اورصاحب نصاب مسلمانوں پر ایک خاص شرح سے فرض ہے زکوۃ کو اللہ تعالیٰ نے مال کی پا کی فرمایا ہے اور اس کا مقصد ایک مسلمان کے دل میں دوسرے ضرور تمند مسلمان کا احساس پیدا کرنا ہے اور چونکہ اسلام خالی خولی باتوں کا قائل نہیں بلکہ یہ عملی اقدامات کا قائل ہے لہذا اُس نے زکوۃکو صرف تلقین تک محدود نہیں رکھا بلکہ اسے ان صاحب نصاب مسلمانوں پر فرض کیا یوں دوسرے مسلمان کی ضروریات کو پ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international community by announcing that India has conducted three nuclear tests earlier that day. On May 13, 1998, India conducted two more nuclear tests. In order to create balance of power in South Asia, Pakistan successfully conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 ...