By Sajjad Shaukat Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leader of the extremist party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support of fanatic coalition organisations, as he had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Besides, various developments like u ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain on May 31, this year, gave his assent to the recently-passed 31st Constitution Amendment Bill, paving the way for the much-delayed merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. With a clear majority, the bill was already approved by both houses of Parliament as well as the KP Assembly. After signing the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned historians agree that besides other causes, major cause of the French Revolution of 1789 was the class distinction between the privileged and the unprivileged, which rapidly increased under the reign of King Louis XVI who had continued the policy of taking out international loans, and the debt drove the country to near bankruptcy, leading to the Revolution. They opine, “The French ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extremist party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime Minister Modi came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support of fanatic coalition outfits. As regards the victory of the ...

Mr. Sainath has reported on rural India for more than two decades. Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national attention and focused it on the problems torment ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India’s special anti-terror court on April 16 acquitted Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) preacher Swami Aseemanand and four others in the Mecca (Masjid) blast case, holding that the prosecution failed to prove even a single allegation against them. Apart from Aseemanand, those acquitted are–Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma, Bharat Mohanlal Rateshwar alias Bharat Bhai and Rajendra Chowdhary. But, ...

Observation by Balbir Singh Sooch Posted by Zaheerul Hassan MISLEADING AND DECEIVING DALIT POLITICS IN INDIA Mayawati as Dalit Leader, Her Relation physically and politically normally supposed to be with DALITS by all means: BUT SHE IS NOT DALIT IN ANY MANNER, Judging her projection from many angles in the context of Indian Politics and as to how the real operation of the secret agencies prevailing in the m ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Speaking regarding the Mumbai terror attack of November 26, 2008, in an exclusive interview, published in the daily Dawn on May 12, this year, Pakistan’s disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unrealistically said: “Militant organisations are active [In Pakistan]…non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can’t we compl ...