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 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_15227" align="alignright" width="397"] Maulana Fazlullah, [/caption] Unprovoked Afghan Aggression On May 5, 2017, Afghan border security forces carried out unprovoked firing across the Chaman border in Baluchistan on two Pakistani villages namely Kili Luqman and Kili Jahangir, martyring 11 Pakistani civilians including one Frontier Corps (FC) soldier and injuring ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India’s Invasive Acts after Partition When Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947 under the sagacious leadership of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian leaders didn’t reconcile with moth eaten Pakistan that had been treacherously slashed by the conniving Mountbatten and Radcliffe. They considered it as vivisection of Mahabharata. Believing in Chanakyan tactics of telling lies, ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Baltimore, Maryland. April 25, 2017. Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General of ‘World Kashmir Awareness Forum’ voiced his continuing belief that the conflict over Kashmir cannot be resolved through military might. Kashmir is a political issue and has to be resolved through political means by involving all parties to the conflict – the Governments of India & Pakistan and the leg ...

علی سخن ور جیمز بانڈ کی فلمیں ہر دور کے نوجوانوں میں جاسوسی کو بطور پیشہ اختیار کرنے کی ترغیب کا باعث بنتی ہیں، چمکتی دمکتی لمبی لمبی گاڑیوں کو کالی سیاہ سڑکوں پر بلا کسی روک ٹوک دوڑاتے ہوئے اچانک سے سامنے گہرے سمندر کا آجانا، اور پھر سمندر کے عین وسط میں کھڑی کسی پر تعیش سی موٹر بوٹ پر انتظار کرتی ہوئی نیم برہنہ حسینہ کی بے تابانہ مسکراہٹ اور پھر ایک دم سے آسمان پر کسی ہیلی کاپٹر کی گھڑگھڑاہٹ اور اس ہیلی ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since Pakistan became the only declared nuclear country in the Islamic World, US, India and Israel started acting upon their collective agenda to destabilize it. After the shift of the Great Game from Central Asia to Pakistan, the country has become special target of American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad which have been supporting target killings, suicide attacks, hostage-takings, se ...