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 ...

Ishaal Zehra Indian Occupied Kashmir continue to witness bloodshed as Indian forces are indiscriminately and incessantly hunting down the innocent people in the name of so-called search operations. Though the Indian government announced to suspend these operations during the holy month of Ramadan, however, on the second Friday of the Ramadan, heavy shelling was used to disperse protesting crowds outside Sri ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Foreign powers which have been supporting the Baloch Sub-Nationalists (BSNs) as part of their unfinished agenda against Pakistan and its Armed Forces leave no stone unturned in misguiding the Baloch people by manipulating one after another issue. In this regard, in the recent past, water scarcity and low rain-falls in the far flung areas of Balochistan province has contaminated water sourc ...

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 Modern history of terrorism shows that it has gone through distinct phases, with shifting missions, messages, and means of mobilizing. But, owing to the US President Donald Trump’s Israeli connections, terrorism has entered the dangerous phase. Everyone knows that Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban were created by the American CIA to fight against the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. In this r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat My father Squadron Leader Abdul Ali Shaukat (Retd) who was 94 years old, passed away on Wednesday (On May 16, 2018). He served in the education branch of the Pakistan Air Force as psychologist at the Inter Services Selection Board (ISSB) for more than 30 years. ISSB selects the candidates for the commissioned officers of Army, Air Force and Navy. My father was  granted 10 years extension i ...

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 ...