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 ...

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, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international community by announcing that India has conducted three nuclear tests earlier that day. On May 13, 1998, India conducted two more nuclear tests. In order to create balance of power in South Asia, Pakistan successfully conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the fundamentalist government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, various extremist policies have continued unabated by the Indian rulers. In this respect, rising number of crime against women, especially rapes are attributable to religious fanaticism and lack of law enforcement. In this recent past, the brutal gang rape and murder o ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Unfortunately, United Nations and all so called world powers kept quite over  brutality against an innocent 8 years old girl Asifa who was  raped and killed by the   retired government official and three serving police men in Second week of April 2018. She was  abducted , tortured and locked in an temple  in January 2018. The retired official, Sanji Ram, ordered his nephew and a po ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the occupation of Afghanistan by the US-led NATO forces, the country has become center of the intelligence agencies such as American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad which are in collusion with Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) to obtain the covert designs of the their countries and some Western countries against Russia, China and Pakistan, including Iran. Under the cov ...

By Shahabuddin The Syrian Civil War is arguably the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, with over a half million killed, wounded or missing, and half of Syria’s 22 million population displaced from their homes. Syria’s largest uprising has devolved into a regionalized civil war that has ravaged the country. President Bashar ul Assad actions would have remained obscured from the world have ...