By Sajjad Shaukat European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom have suspended the flight operations of Pakistan’s national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to and from their airports following the statement by Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan that nearly 300 PIA pilots’ licences have been suspended, as these were fake. The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) said that ban on t ...

By Sajjad Shaukat More than 75 days have been passed. But, India has continued military clampdown and strict communications blackout in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) by continuing curfew in wake of shortage of foods and even medicines for the patients. Tensions between India and Pakistan accelerated on August 5, this year, when New Delhi unilaterally annexed the IOK, revoking articles 35A and 370 of the ...

By Atta Rasool Malik Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) part their ways soon after their merger. A day earlier Press conference of Mustafa Kamal and Farooq Sattar had captured nationwide attention and their statements and pledges made headlines on national media. Then it appeared that Muhajirs were ready to say goodbye to infamous legacy of Altaf Hussain. In the press co ...

 نغمہ حبیب کراچی جس کو کسی زمانے میں روشنیوں کا شہر کہا جاتا تھا لیکن پھر ہوایہ کہ یہاں دن کی روشنی میں بھی کوئی جان محفوظ نہیں رہی اور وہ جرائم جو رات کے اندھیرے میں بھی ڈر کر کیے جاتے تھے دن کے روشنی میں بھی بے خوف و خطر کیے جانے لگے۔ نا معلوم افراد کے نام پر معلوم افراد خون کی ہولی کھیلتے رہے اور اس صورت حال کے خلاف بات کرنے والے بھی انہی نامعلوم افراد کا نشانہ بنتے رہے۔ ایسے میں یہ حکومت کی ذمہ داری تھی ...

By Mohammad Jamil        Life was paralysed in Karachi on Wednesday amid gunfire and arson attacks after police arrested Nadim Hashmi, a former MPA of the MQM, on murder and terror charges over the killing of two cops. At least four vehicles were torched, and schools, shops and petrol stations were closed. Since the targeted operation started in Karachi, scores of activists belonging to religious outfits, p ...

Asif Haroon Raja Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had nurtured the dream of independent Bengal from early days. He and his henchmen got in touch with Indian intelligence agencies and during one of the meetings in Agartala in November 1963, finalized the plan to detach East Pakistan from rest of Pakistan. Under the garb of remedying political and economic grievances of East Pakistan, he formulated six points formula an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Protests and demonstrations by the Shia community enveloped almost all the country in reaction to the deadly twin blasts which killed more than 50 people, and damaged various buildings on March 3, this year in the Shia-dominated Abbas Town of Karachi. Next day, Sohrab Goth area of Karachi turned into battlefield with heavy exchange of fire after the four mourners of the burial procession w ...

By  Zaheerul Hassan A blast was reported to have taken place in a Muharram mourning procession on Misrihall road in Rawalpindi, Express News reported. The police sources had told him that the blast took place in the mourning procession near Dhok Saeydan. President, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has strongly and PML(N) Chief Nawaz Shrief condemned the bomb blast in Rawalpindi, and expressed grief and sor ...