By Asif Haroon Raja The world is in turmoil and events are moving towards confrontation between bigger powers. Owing to its evil acts, the Evil Empire wanting to convert the world into a global village has made the world insecure and is now seen as the biggest human threat the world has ever known. The so-called invincible US military and NATO have been roundly defeated by the ill-clad and ill-equipped Afgh ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan Thinkers Forum held a seminar at Islamabad Club on March 29, 2015 under the chairmanship of Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat. Lt Gen Naeem Khan Lodhi and Dr. Sultan Bashir Mehmood spoke on the topic “National Solidarity” while I and Prof Dr Anis Ahmed spoke on “Pakistan has a Future”. I will share my presentation in the succeeding paragraphs.   Miracle of 20th Century Pakistan em ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                                   Pakistan has become special arena of the different war, being waged by the security forces against the ruthless terrorists who have continued their terror-activities such as suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings, beheadings of the innocent people, assaults on security personnel and prominent religious figures. Besides blowing children schools an ...

 نغمہ حبیب 1947 میں نظریے کی بنیاد پر پاکستان بنا اور اگلے سال یعنی مئی 1948 میں مغرب کے مکمل تعاون بلکہ منصوبہ بندی کے نتیجے میں اسرائیل کے قیام کا اعلان کیا گیااور ایک سال بعد اسے تسلیم بھی کر لیا گیا۔ اس کا قیام بھی نظریے کی بنیاد پر عمل میں لایا گیا قیام تو دونوں ریاستوں کا اپنے اپنے نظریے کی بنیاد پر کیا گیا لیکن اِن کے نظریات میں اس قدر تفاوت تھا کہ نہ تو کبھی اِن کے تعلقات قائم ہو سکے اور نہ ہی ایک د ...

By Zaheerul Hassan (ZM) — According to Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir to the United States disclosed that his country has started airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who drove out the U.S.-backed Yemeni president. He said the operations began at 7 p.m. Eastern time. He further states, widely believed to be backed by Iran, "have always chosen the path of violence." He refused to admit the U.S.  I ...

 By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “All of us remain concerned that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir should be solved through peaceful negotiations and should be willing to lend all the strength we have to the resolution of this matter.” President Nelson Mandela at the NAM Summit – September 2, 1998 In matters of international conflict resolution, that can only imply the involvement of a third party mediator or facilita ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While echoing Hobbes and Machiavelli, Morgenthau opines that in international politics, countries act upon various immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and so on. In one way or the other, they also follow these tactics to fulfill their selfish aims. But, in the modern era of electronic and social media including open diplomacy, it is difficult for the sovereign states to contin ...

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 ar ...