By Sajjad Shaukat US President Barack Obama is arriving India on three days visit on January 25, 2015. In view of the extremely sensitive nature of the visit and potential strategic gains, India has put security agencies on nationwide high alert to avoid any breach of security and untoward incident. India has also been projecting the possibility of a terrorist attack coinciding with Obama’s visit or targeti ...

 By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal  The hate campaign The killings at Charlie Hebdo had sent powerful shock waves all over the West. Now the security threats and fear run very high everywhere. It seems that not only the hateful Islamophobic cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, but also the politicians and the security officers of the West have turned pathologically paranoid. Even an unattended bag in a railway or undergro ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the last few years, external elements accelerated their propaganda campaign against Pakistan, because, it is the lonely nuclear country in the Islamic World. For the purpose, these elements have especially been targeting Pakistan’s Army. In this regard, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajid and India are in connivance to distort th ...

نغمہ حبیب مسلمان سو رہا ہے اور ایک بار پھر اُس کی عزت سے کھیل لیا گیا اور توہین آمیز خاکے شائع کیے گئے اور ایسا اب کی بار فرانس کے اخبار چارلی ہیبڈو نے کیا ایسا پہلی بار نہیں ہوا کہ مسلمانوں کے جذبات سے کھیلا گیا ہو ایسے ہی خاکے پہلے ناروے میں بھی شائع ہو چکے ہیں اور نہ یہ ایک واحد انداز ہے جس سے مسلمانوں کی دل آزاری کی گئی ہو۔ نعوذبااللہ”برن دی قرآن“ جیسے باقاعدہ قسم کے پروگرام بھی بنائے اور چلائے گئے ظاہر ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat During his recent visit to Pakistan, the newly-elected President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani said that his government and the people of Afghanistan desire to further strengthen bilateral relations with Pakistan in all areas of mutual interest. He elaborated, “We must overcome the past…we will not permit the past to destroy the future.” The Afghan president who was accompanied by Afghan D ...

(Part II) By  Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Ultimately the referendum in Scotland was held in a peaceful manner, and the people decided according to their own free will not to be an independent nation. This was undoubtedly a victory for democratic principles and universal values. The people of Kashmir do not want anything more than that. They want the same principle to be equally applicable to Kashmir. Let the people ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is burning in the flames of war on terror since 2003. Fratricidal war has claimed 55, 973 human lives and the numbers of injured run into hundreds of thousands. This appalling figure of casualties owing to over 5000 bomb blasts, hundreds of suicide and terrorist attacks surpasses the total fatalities suffered in the 1948, 1965 and 1971 wars and local conflicts with India. While ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat                             Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that as part of the insurgency, terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism and so on. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty ...