By Sajjad Shaukat In order to resolve the menace of terrorism, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on January 29, this year announced the constitution of 4-member committee comprising impartial personalities to open negotiations with the warring Taliban. The committee has started contacts with all the militant groups, especially Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which has also welcomed government’s offe ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Year 2013 would be remembered as smooth transaction of powers from one democratic govt to the other. The democracy lovers truly believe in the supremacy of this form of government due to its main characteristics of electing rulers through ballot and then provide them chance to comply their promises and programs made with the whole population prior of contesting the elections. U.S. preside ...

      By Sajjad Shaukat   While showing their double standard openly, the US and some western countries use one pretext or the other in targeting the unfavorable small countries in order to obtain their selfish interests. Therefore, they are taking the nuclear proliferation as an ultra sensitive concern, haunting the entire world, and they feel impatient to impose unilateral sanctions against those states w ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Some of the glaring reasons that have given rise to religious extremism in Pakistan are as follows: Early demise of Quaid-e-Azam resulted in leadership crisis, which persists to this day. Growth of regionalism gave rise to fissiparous tendencies. Antagonism between seculars and Islamists impeded constitution making for nine years. Widening gulf between rich and poor and callous attitude ...

      By Sajjad Shaukat No doubt, media have been playing a key role by educating and guiding the people regarding various developments and issues which have been taking place on global and regional level. Being the fourth pillar of the state, especially electronic media have brought the matters of public interest and bloody battles into our bedrooms. Thus, it has made difficult for the politicians to wage ...

        By Sajjad Shaukat After the World War I, Turkish Empire was broken by the imperialist powers, as it was convenient for the latter to control small Muslim states. In one way or the other, the same practice continues by some foreign countries which are acting upon their covert agenda in further weakening the Islamic countries on ethnic and sectarian lines. In this regard, being the lonely nuclear stat ...

     By Sajjad Shaukat Basically, prosperity of a Third World country depends upon foreign investment which needs political stability in that country in the modern era of economic development. On the other side, political instability which creates uncertainty in a less developed country, is not conducive for external businessmen. In these terms, the case of Bangladesh is of special consideration, where seve ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned political thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud and falsehood which become the principles of political morality. In one way or the other, they also follow these tactics in seeking revenge to fulfill their selfish aims. But such a sinister politics was replaced by new trends such as fair-dealings, forgiveness, ...