By Ali Sukhanver Staying at luxuriously comfortable five-star hotels, doing a lot of air-traveling to different cities of Iran, visiting the tomb of Firdosi in Neeshapur, the tomb of Imam Khomeini in Tehran, the National Library, the Palaces of Raza Shah Pehalvi near Tajreesh and so many other places of Iran’s national importance; all was dreamingly wonderful and enchantingly attractive. Last month, I had a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Two Nation Theory which is the basis of the Ideology of Pakistan was kept alive from Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to Quaid-e-Azam. It stated that Muslims of the Sub-continent have their own Islamic culture, traditions and religion which are quite different from those of Hindus. In accordance with the Two Nation Theory, Allama Iqbal had demanded a separate land for the Muslims, where they could live ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir This may initiate a soul searching about one of the little known effects of 71 War but for the bone deaf and genetically dumb; the ones who have steadfastly refused to learn from their mistakes, are unwilling to identify the country's arch enemy and too eager to hug those who wish to see this country succumb to the level of Dalit like abject servility. After, what Mr. Modi admitted in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The ink on Pak-China agreements related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was barely dry when some western media, especially Indian secret agency RAW started playing up the Baloch insurgency. In this regard, the director of The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, 2015, followed by a bomb blast in Sibi, wh ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is a peace loving country and has been subjected to worse kind of terrorism. All amicable efforts to negotiate with the terrorist outfits have failed. In fact, Indian covert and overt activities against the federation of Pakistan had led to the separation of the former East Pakistan in 1971. Now, India has been promoting sub-nationalism in Baluchistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Sindh and ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی یہ بین حقائق اگرہمہ وقت ہمارے پیشِ نظر رہیں تو ہم کبھی گمراہ نہیں ہوسکتے، کبھی حق اور سچائی کی راہ سے نہیں بھٹک سکتے، حق اور سچائی کی راہ پر گامزن اقوام‘ اُن کے لیڈر اگر اِن روشن اور ہدایتِ یافتہ راستوں پر چلنے کے لئے خود آمادہ اور تیار کرلیں‘ مطلب یہ کہ جب کسی بھی سماج اور معاشرے میں انسانی اور اخلاقی قدروں کا زوال عروج پر پہنچ جاتا ہے تو اُن کو مادّی‘ معاشی خوشحالی اور فراغت زوال سے مح ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to control over the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, Punjab, and to arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir ...

By Asif Haroon Raja I delivered a talk on China-Pakistan Energy Corridor and its ramifications at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on May 31, 2015, chaired by Air Chief Marshal (retd) Kaleem Saadat and attended by Lt Gen (retd) Lodhi, and members both from civil and military. After the talk, there was long question/answer session followed by summing up by the Chairman. Details of presentation are covered in succeedi ...