By Sajjad Shaukat At least 37 people have been killed and several seriously injured in the coordinated terror attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station, which took place today. The state-owned Belga news agency reports that shots were fired and shouts in Arabic were heard before the two explosions. The attacks come four days after Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive in the Paris attac ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub Continent, when All India Muslim League passed the Resolution in Lahore for the creation of an independent state. Now, it is popularly called as Pakistan Resolution. Earlier, in his address to the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, the idea of a homeland for Muslims in their majority areas had been envisioned by the poet All ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 on global level, focusing attention on the water crisis as well as the solutions to address it. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each ...

By Rida Zaheer Cricket Diplomacy between India and Pakistan failed when extremists RSS under the umbrella of ruling Janta Party has countrywide launched protest against Pakistan Cricket Team and threatened to dig the pitches, if neighbor team visit India with regard to T-20 Cricket World Cup—2016 . In this regard Dharamsala was named as the venue on December 11 last year. Political tensions and security con ...

Capt Umair Abdullah Abbasi from Murree embraced shahaadat today in Shawaal. May God give strength and patience to his family. Pakistan Army is in the way of consolidation of operation against Indian supported TTP in FATA  ...

By Sajjad Shaukat International community is so focused on the double standard of the United States in Syria that it has ignored America’s similar policy in South Asia, which also needs appropriate attention. In this regard, the US expressed concern on February 12, this year over the security of Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons. The statement followed the US announcement about its intention to sell eight ...

By Asif Haroon Raja General Afghanistan is connected with South Asia, Middle East and Central Asia. It shares 1400 km border with Pakistan and its 42% of Afghan Pashtuns share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pakistani Pashtuns. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border has never acted as a barrier in their cross border movement. Pa ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان پچھلی کئی دہائیوں سے دہشت گردی اور دہشت گردوں کے خلاف برسر پیکارہے ایک فتنہ ختم ہوتا ہے تو دوسرا سر اٹھا تا ہے، روس سے جان چھوٹتی ہے تو امریکہ و بال جان بن جاتا ہے، روس افغان جنگ ختم ہو تی ہے تو امریکہ افغان جنگ شروع ہو جاتی ہے ۔ جنگ افغانستان میں اور تباہی پاکستان میں، طالبان، بے شمار قسم کے لشکر کبھی لشکر جھنگوی، کبھی سپاہِ صحابہ، مذہب کے نام پر کبھی بی ایل اے جیسی تنظیمیں علاقائی سیاست ...