By Sajjad Shaukat When during the regime of the President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan initiated the construction of Gwadar deep-seaport in Balochistan province in March 2002 with Chinese assistance, sirens went off in the capitals of some European countries, especially the US, India and Israel which took it as a threat to their global and regional plans. Located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, Ba ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت کو لگام دینے والا کیا کوئی نہیں یا دنیا نے آنکھیں بند کی ہوئی ہیں وہاں سے مسلسل پاکستان کے معاملات میں مداخلت کی جا رہی ہے اور علیٰ الاعلان کی جا رہی ہے کبھی ان کا وزیراعظم بڑے دھڑلے سے مشرقی پاکستان کی علحدگی کو اپنا کار نامہ کہتا ہے کبھی کھلم کھلا بلوچوں کی مدد کا اعلان کرتا ہے۔ بھارت اپنی دہشت گرد ہندو ذہنیت سے ہمیشہ مجبور رہا ہے چاہے کانگریسی اندراگاندھی ہو یا بی جے پی کا مودی سب کا ایجن ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The ISI had developed its long arm capability during the tenures of Gen Akhtar Abdur Rehman, Lt Gen Hamid Gul and Lt Gen Javed Nasir as DG ISI. It was owing to this capability of hitting the chosen target outside the frontiers of Pakistan that the ISI earned the reputation of a dreaded outfit and the best in Asia. The long arm began to shrivel when Benazir Bhutto was PM from 1988 to 1990 ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Imran Khan (IK) and his partner Sheikh Rashid pursuing politics of agitation since mid-2014 are once again on a rampage and are determined to lock down Islamabad (Isbd) and seize power by force. Their tantrums have shot up the political temperature to a boiling point and has intensified uncertainty and insecurity. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak along with PTI ...

By Sajjad ShaukatWaging a prolonged war in Afghanistan, the US and other NATO countries have realized that after the withdrawal of foreign troops, Afghanistan would be thrown in an era of uncertainly and civil war. They realize the fact that there is a co-relationship of terrorism or stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Therefore, US-led developed nations which also spent billions of dollars for the devel ...

By Ali Sukhanver Certainly one would call it illogical to trace some connection between the terrorist attack on Police Training Academy in Quetta and the successful completion of international PACES championship at Ayub stadium Lahore but unfortunately these two events are closely connected. And the whole episode revolves around a single point; Pakistan’s international isolation. Pakistan’s international is ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستانی کھلاڑیوں نے کھیلوں کی دنیا میں کئی مقابلوں میں فتح کے جھنڈے گاڑھے اور ملک کا نام روشن کیا ایک وقت تھا جب پاکستان ہاکی کے میدانوں کا بادشاہ تھا اولمپک ، ورلڈکپ ، ایشین چمپئین ،ورلڈ چمپئین اور دوسرے تمام ٹائٹل اس کے نام تھے۔ سکواش کا نام آتے ہی پاکستان ، جہانگیر خان اور جان شیر خان ان سے پہلے اعظم خان، روشن خان، ہاشم خان جیسے عظیم کھلاڑیوں کے نام ذہن میں آتے تھے جو اس کھیل کے تا جدار تھے ۔ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although 27th of October is celebrated every year as the “Black Day” by the Pakistanis and the Kashmiris all over the world as a protest against Indian illegal occupation of Kashmir on October 27, 1947, yet this time, this very day has come at time when the people of Kashmir have accelerated their legitimate struggle in the aftermath of the martyrdom of the young Kashmir leader Burhan Wani ...