By Sajjad Shaukat Recall that three days before the general elections in Spain, the train bombings in Madrid on March 11, 2004, which killed more than 2000 people turned the election results in favour of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero whose Socialist Party won the elections, as he had said that Spain where the “US war has been deeply unpopular”, “would withdraw its troops.” While government led by the Prime M ...

علی سخن ور بھارت کی طرف غیر معمولی جھکاؤ کے باعث ممکن ہے بہت سے پاکستانی امریکا کو پاکستان کے دوستوں میں شمار کرنے سے ہچکچاتے ہوں، لیکن بین الاقوامی مراسم کی دنیا میں دوستیوں اور دشمنیوں کی بنیادیں ہم عام انسانوں کی زندگی سے بالکل ہی مختلف ہوتی ہیں۔ ملکوں کی سطح پرروز مرہ کے واقعات، دوسروں کی پھیلائی ہوئی غلط فہمیوں، نامناسب فیصلوں اور دہشت گردوں کے ایک بین الاقوامی نیٹ ورک کی کاروائیوں کے نتیجے میں عارضی ا ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Terrorism was stoked in Afghanistan in October 2001 under a well-thought out plan chalked out by Indo-US-Israel-UK alliance. The plan envisaged ousting Taliban regime with the help of Pakistan and eliminating Al-Qaeda so that Afghan soil could be used for launching covert operations against targeted regional countries. The US installed puppet regime of Hamid Karzai followed by Ashraf Gha ...

by Asif Haroon Raja The two leading US think tanks namely ‘Hudson Institute’ and the ‘Heritage Foundation’ have advised the Donald Trump administration to adopt tough measures against Pakistan. In their view Pakistan is not doing enough in controlling terrorism and is making its soil available for export of terrorism into Afghanistan, thereby threatening the US vital security interests in the region. They h ...

By  Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal The betrayal of the objective The early Muslims gained unprecedented successes. Their success were not confined in war fronts or civilisation-building. They achieved successes almost in all fields. They could add record speed to the spread of Islam. They made Muslims the most reckoned World Power within decades. They raised higher values, established rule of law and promoted equal ...

by  Asif Haroon Raja Donald J Trump surprise victory has divided the American society. He took over the reins of power from outgoing President Barack Obama as the 45th President of USA on January 20, 2017. His swearing-in ceremony was largely attended, but 95% of them were Whites. Noisy protests by the under privileged took place in Washington during the ceremony and many died in clashes with the police. Th ...

WASHINGTON ― More than 50 Democratic members of Congress are planning to skip President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, many saying they can’t bring themselves to welcome a man to the White House who ran such a divisive and prejudiced campaign ― and insulted their colleague, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). (An updated list of the lawmakers who won’t attend the inauguration is below.) I will not be ce ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Displacement of pro-Saudi Mansoor Hadi’s govt in Yemen and capture of the capital city of Sanaa by the Huthis (Zaidi Shias in northern Yemen) and large swathes of territory in southern Yemen alarmed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), since its vulnerable backyard was threatened. It was already feeling uneasy because of Iran’s expanding ideological war with the help of its allies comprisi ...