By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, the Ministry of Culture of India started a month-long exhibition of some important documents on Kashmir; kept at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) in New Delhi. The NMML aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. It was founded in 1964 after the death of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where h ...

India’s Mistreatment of Religious Minorities: Widening Gaps between Hindus and Sikhs By Sajjad Shaukat India which apparently, claims to be the largest democracy, acting upon the principles of liberalism and secularism has broken all the records of mistreatment of religious minorities by acceleration of violence, genocide and massacre, perpetrated on various ethnic and religious groups, while, gaps are rapi ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستانی معاشرہ اس وقت جن مسائل سے دو چار ہے اُن میں دہشت گردی اور انتہا پسندی سر فہرست ہیں بلکہ اگر دیکھا جائے تو دہشت گردی کی وجوہات میں بھی انتہا پسندی کا حصہ سب سے زیادہ ہے ہم دوطبقات میں تقسیم ہیں ایک جدت پسندی کے نام پر حد سے نکلے ہوا ہے اور دوسرا مذہب کو آڑ بنا کر دوسروں پر طعنہ زن ہے۔ ہم کہنے کو کہتے ہیں کہ اسلام روا داری کا مذہب ہے لیکن اسے عملاََ ماننے پر آمادہ نہیں ہمارے ہاں جتنا ارزاں ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum has expressed gratitude to Mr. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General for encouraging both India and Pakistan to address the issue of Kashmir through dialogue. The spokesperson of the Secretary General said on January 22, 2018, “We're obviously aware.  We're following this… what's been going on, really for th ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the acceleration of firing by the Indian Army and Border Security Force (BSF) across the Line of Control (LoC), which has been targeting the innocent civilians and their property in Pakistani side of Kashmir and Working Boundary, tension has increased between Pakistan and India. However, both Pakistan and India are nuclear powers. Hence, LoC tension needs appropriate analysis, as it h ...

By Asif Haroon Raja George Bush threatened Gen Musharraf that Pakistan will be pushed into Stone Age if he didn't accept the US seven demands. Pakistan’s support helped the US in overthrowing Taliban regime and occupying Afghanistan. Instead of bringing about the promised changes in Afghanistan, the US focused its attention toward Pakistan and ignited flames of terrorism in FATA and Baluchistan and subseque ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist leader Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) ...