By Sajjad Shaukat US President Barack Obama is arriving India on three days visit on January 25, 2015. In view of the extremely sensitive nature of the visit and potential strategic gains, India has put security agencies on nationwide high alert to avoid any breach of security and untoward incident. India has also been projecting the possibility of a terrorist attack coinciding with Obama’s visit or targeti ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the last few years, external elements accelerated their propaganda campaign against Pakistan, because, it is the lonely nuclear country in the Islamic World. For the purpose, these elements have especially been targeting Pakistan’s Army. In this regard, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajid and India are in connivance to distort th ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat During his recent visit to Pakistan, the newly-elected President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani said that his government and the people of Afghanistan desire to further strengthen bilateral relations with Pakistan in all areas of mutual interest. He elaborated, “We must overcome the past…we will not permit the past to destroy the future.” The Afghan president who was accompanied by Afghan D ...

                       نغمہ حبیب 1971 میں پاکستان دولخت ہوا وہ ملک جس کے لیے ہندوستان کے گوشے گوشے کونے کونے میں رہنے والے مسلمانوں نے بغیر یہ سوچے سمجھے کہ وہ پاکستان کا حصہ بن سکیں گے یا نہیں پاکستان کے حصول کا نعرہ لگایا اور پاکستان حاصل بھی کرلیا لیکن اپنوں کی خود غرضیاں اور غیروں کی سازشیں کام کر گئیں اور بنگلہ دیش بن گیا۔ بنگلہ دیش تو بن گیا لیکن سازشیں نہ رکیں تاریخ سے سبق حاصل نہیں کیا گیا اور اب بھ ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Unlike the past wars, the arena of war has changed. In the ongoing era, besides subversive tactics, non-lethal weapons like propaganda can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target country. In this regard, overtly, US high officials state that they seek stability in Pakistan, but covertly, they continue to destabilize this lonely ‘nuclearised’ country in the Islamic World. With ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan was pushed into the inferno of war on terror by the imperialist USA after 9/11 with ill-intentions. While roots of terrorism were identified in Afghanistan, the war was surreptitiously diverted into FATA, and then into other parts of Pakistan. All this time debate kept raging among Pakistanis whether it was US war or our war. Irrespective of this debate, the fact is that law enf ...

                                      سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی اتنے غیر موثر‘ بے بس‘ کمزور‘ عاجز ولاچار حکمران چاہے اُن کی حکمرانی بادشاہت کی ہو‘ جمہوری ہو یا ڈکٹیٹر شپ کی ہو‘ اُن کا طرزِ حکمرانی جیسا تیسا ہی ہو،لیکن جتنے ڈھیلے ڈھالے اور ہمیشہ اپنے ہاتھ ملتے حکمران ہمیں میسر آئے ہیں یا ملتے رہے ہیں شائد ہی تاریخ ِ عالم میں کہیں آپ نے اِن جیسوں کا تذکرہ پڑھا ہوگا؟ اتفاقاً اگرکہیں کسی تاریخ کے صفحات پر ہمیں ایسے حک ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...