By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s security forces successfully foiled an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi on November 23, this year. In the exchange of firing, two policemen were martyred, including two civilians, as three gunmen tried to enter the consulate around 9:30am but were intercepted by security guards at a checkpoint. Karachi Police Chief Dr Amir Shaikh said, “Three suspected suicide bombers ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Economic prosperity is the paramount for stability of any country. Afghanistan being a land locked country is mostly reliant on Pakistan for transit and bilateral trade. As per recent survey both countries have potential of trade up to $5 billion annually. In earlier quarter of 2018, although, trade with Afghanistan decreased from $3 billion to $500 million; however recent figures and tren ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Recent negative developments in Pakistan such as Asia Bibi blasphemy case, dragging army into politics and assassination of the renowned-peace-loving religious clerk Maulana Samiul Haq cannot be seen in isolation, as the same are part of the Zionist agenda to destabilize Pakistan, because latter is the only nuclear country in the Islamic Word, which irritates the US, India, Israel and some ...

By Sajjad Shaukat When first time the US decided talks with the Afghan Taliban in 2012, the same were conditional, as America had demanded that before any deal, violence against Afghan people must stop and the Taliban must cut ties to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. She seek to distinguish between Al-Qaeda-related fighters and Afghan insurgents—good and bad Taliban. Afterwards, with the backing of the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the US-led NATO forces occupied Afghanistan in 2001, their air strikes on funerals, marriage-ceremonies and mosques, including special military operations killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan. Therefore, previously, Afghan Government as well as the parliamentarians used to criticize the US-led NATO for the Afghan civilian causalities. But, from 2015, Afghan security forces an ...

By Aurangzeb Alamgir In 2005, Ex COAS and then President of Pakistan announced various mega projects in the country including Gwadar City, Gwadar deep sea port, Makran Costal Highway, Quetta Water Supply, Tangi Wali Dam and Lwari Tunnel. He was also about to announce the inauguration of Pakistan Dam (Kalabagh) when RAW and NDS maneuvered through their proxies in Pakistan. Primarily, Altaf Hussain (MQM) who ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On September 7, Air Force Day (Yum-e-Fizaiya) is being celebrated by every Pakistani in the memory of the martyrs and heroes of the 1965 war, and to pay tribute to Pakistan Air Force (PAF) which won aerial warfare by defeating India. On September 6, 1965 when India suddenly attacked Pakistan, its forces crossed the international border and the BRB canal, and captured a town of Batapore, La ...

by Balbir Singh Sooch Obama where liked to visit India, there at the same time never ever spared commenting upon Modi and his governship too.Few days back he openly made comments against Indian PM while saying, Could the majority of intolerant voters think so in India, “And so if you see a politician doing things that are questionable, one of the things as a citizen is to ask yourself ‘Am I encouraging, or ...