By Sajjad Shaukat Indian media reported on July 5, this year that the Kolkata police have arrested five men with 1 kg of uranium valued at around Rs. 3 crores ($440,000). The Times of India elaborated that the men had come to Kolkata in the state of West Bengal to try to sell the substance. Police were quoted as saying that two packets of a “yellow-coloured substance” were seized. However, it is not the new ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں جمہوریت پٹری پر چڑھی ہے تو دشمن سے برداشت ہو نہیں رہا اور وہ مسلسل اس کو ششں میں ہے کہ اس سارے سلسلے کو کسی نہ کسی طرح سبوتاژ کر کے روکا جائے جس کے لئے باقاعدہ منصوبہ بندی کی گئی ہے اور انتخابات سے پہلے ہی انتخابی جلسوں پر حملے اس بات کا ثبوت ہیں کہ دشمن سرگرم ہو چکا ہے۔ ہارون بلور ، سراج رئیسانی، اکرام اللہ گنڈاپور اور ان کے ساتھ ان کے سینکڑوں کارکنوں کی شہادت کئی دیگر کاروائیوں کا حص ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The voters went to the allocated polling stations early in the morning of July 25 to take part in the 13th general elections. The voting started at 8 a.m. amidst sea of doubts, skepticism, hopes and high emotions. 85000 polling stations had been established all over the country and elaborate arrangements were made by the caretakers to ensure free and fair elections. For the first time, t ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Education and research play a key role in the development of a country in various fields. History gives ample evidence that that rise of the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire and the Turkish Empire was the result of research and education. It is because of educational and research institutions that the most developed countries of the West have made progress almost in every field. In fact, lea ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The traditional relations among the independent states have often been explained in terms of power factor or role of force. The leading theorists of realism and neo-realism such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Morgenthau, Waltz and Kissinger agree that power plays a central role in international relations. These power-theorists describe the power factor as the main determinant of world ...

By Sajjad Shaukat When Pakistan emerged as the independent state on August 14, 1947, the country inherited 20 percent of the subcontinent’s population. Pakistan’s share in industry was less than seven percent, mostly consisting of small-scale and minor industrial units. Pakistan had no large industry. Pakistan that included East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as well had only 34 factories. The total employment p ...

Highlits by Balbir Singh Soach Posted By Zaheerul Hassan 1. Rahul Gandhi, President of the Congress cited ‘The Economist Magazine’ to say that India has become one of the dangerous places in the world for women. He said that gangrapes and atrocities against women have drastically increased, as have brutalities against Dalits, adivasis and minorities. “I want to ask the prime minister – are Dalits, adivasis ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Birth of Pakistan was seen as a miracle of 20th century. Its survival under extreme odds was indeed a bigger miracle. History depicts that Radcliffe award was critical in sowing the seeds of animosity among numerous communities and hence led to a bloody and violent partition. Kashmir was the unfinished agenda of the partition left behind by the British which has kept India and Pakistan p ...