By Sajjad Shaukat Although every year September 6 is celebrated as the defence day to pay tribute to the Pakistani soldiers who defeated India in the 1965 war, yet this very day has come at a time when BJP-led government of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has planned to celebrate the golden jubilee of that Indo-Pak war, which New Delhi had never celebrated in the past. In order to propagate that war ...

By Correspondent  September 1, 2015. We are proud of the achievements of the Pakistani Americans not only in Virginia but also in the United States. Pakistani culture is a beautiful culture, said Hon. Terri McAuliffe, Governor of the State of Virginia who was the Chief Guest to kick off Pakistani Independence day Festival at Fairfax, Virginia which was attended by several thousand people. “The celebration o ...

By Ali Sukhanver ‘Four kids are standing near the Grand Mosque in Srinagar. They are edgy; they appear to be ready to jump, to run, and to fight, also ready to run and retreat if necessary. It all depends on the circumstances. “They are raping our sisters and mothers!” screams one youth. I am shown teargas canisters, similar to those used in so many other parts of the world to disperse protesters. They are ...

By Asif Haroon Raja General. Afghanistan is a landlocked country and dependent upon Pakistan for its exports/imports, but has traditionally remained friendly to India and unsympathetic to Pakistan since 1947. The only time it was friendly with Pakistan and unfriendly with India was during the five-year rule of Taliban from 1996 till 2001. Afghanistan under Hamid Karzai was worst of all. During his over 13 y ...

By Ali Sukhanver ‘A wave of attacks on Afghan police, army and NATO installations in Kabul killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, dashing hope that Taliban insurgents might be weakened by a leadership struggle after news of their longtime leader's death’, reported The Reuters on 7th August, 2015, ‘The attacks on Friday, which included a massive truck bomb in a heavily populated civilian area and a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Fundamentalist government of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi still prefers military spending instead of improving social fabric of Indian society. Rising number of rapes are attributable to religious fanaticism, nation’s patriarchy, widespread poverty and lack of law enforcement. Now, India has become an eternal ordeal for ladies, and every 23 minutes a lady is raped. In this r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat India once again escaped from negotiations by cancelling National Security Adviser (NSA)-level talks with Pakistan, scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 23-24. In this regard, as part of pre-conditions, Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup said that New Delhi opposes Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s meeting with pro-independence leaders ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Very brave leader and great soldier, Punjab Home Minister Col (Retd) Shuja Khanzada martyrdom along with DSP Hazro Shaukat Shah. 12 others killed and dozens of others injured in a suicide blast at his political office in Shadi Khan near Attock on 15 August 2015.  He was born on 23 August in his home town Shadi Khan, completed graduation in 1966 from Islamia College Peshawar, got commissio ...