By Asif Haroon Raja Yesterday on March 23, 78th Pakistan Day was celebrated with vivacity and zest. Armed forces carried out brilliant march past in Islamabad and delighted the audience. To trace back the significance of this day, the idea of Pakistan in embryonic form was given by poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal in his historic address at Allahabad in 1930. He had envisioned Pakistan based on Muslim ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although 23rd of March is celebrated every year as the Pakistan Day, but, this time, it has come at a time when Pakistan stands at the crossroads of its destiny, facing internal and external challenges and threats to the national security of the country, which are worrying all the citizens. The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub-continent, when All India Muslim Le ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Patriot Pakistanis had perceived that after the division of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), its leaders would not target the integrity of Pakistan. But, anti-Pakistan activities of the MQM continue unabated. In this respect, in the recent past, Nadeem Nushrat spokesman of the MQM for the Free Karachi campaign has allegedly said that the Pakistan Army was carrying out ethnic cleansing o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On November 26, 2008, several persons were killed in the simultaneous terror attacks in Mumbai. Without any investigation, Indian high officials and media had started blaming Pakistan. In this respect, Indian top officials and TV channels had remarked that Indian Mujahideen and the banned Lashkar-e-Tayba (LeT) based in Pakistan, Hafiz Muhammad and country’s primary intelligence agency ISI ...

By Asif Haroon Raja In his ten year rule, Field Marshal Ayub Khan achieved phenomenal all round results mainly because he had kept the politicians out till 1964 under EBDO. He debarred the politicians from politics for ten years on account of their dismal performance after the murder of Liaqat Ali Khan in October 1951. Their incompetence and their indifference to the rule of law and constitution making as w ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, Pakistan Army (Askari Aviation) conducted a successful rescue operation to save the lives of the French and Polish mountaineers. But, ignoring the ground realties at the Nanga Parbat, some media persons negatively projected the efforts of the Army. First of all, it is notable that Nanga Parbat, in northern Pakistan, is the world’s ninth-highest mountain at 26,660 feet. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, the Ministry of Culture of India started a month-long exhibition of some important documents on Kashmir; kept at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) in New Delhi. The NMML aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. It was founded in 1964 after the death of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where h ...