By Sajjad Shaukat By manipulating the double game of the US, India is acting upon secret diplomacy in the region. In the pretext of presumed threat of China, New Delhi has also been trying to establish her hegemony in South Asia. In fact, fast growing economic power of China coupled with her rising strategic relationship with the Third World has irked the eyes of Americans, Israelis, some Western countries ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai As the time-honored adage advises, to every complex problem there is a simple solution, but it is wrong. I do not bear simple panaceas or simpleminded slogans. What I do hope to offer is an unstarry - eyed view of the fate of self-determination in Kashmir; and, the indispensability of convincing India that its national and economic security would be strengthened, not weakened, by endi ...

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 ...

Ishaal Zehra Spring is back in Pakistan. And so is the exclusive Defence Day Parade which is annually held on March 23rd to mark the Pakistan Resolution Day. The day when all the Muslims of the sub-continent agreed upon to fight for a country which they can call ‘home’. At this time of the year one can catch quite a glimpses of colours and smiles all around Pakistan. Peace has returned to the country and so ...

نغمہ حبیب مکران کے ساحلوں کی فتح سے شروع ہونے والی تاریخ میں کئی اُونچ نیچ اور تلخ شیریں موڑ آتے رہے وہ مسلمان جو فاتح بن کر برصغیر میں آئے اور مقامی لوگوں پر حکمرانی کرتے رہے یہاں کے مقامی لوگوں کو چاہے وہ جس مذہب سے بھی تھے ان کے حقوق دیتے رہے، کبھی اتفاق باہمی سے حکومت کرتے رہے کبھی باہم دست و گریباں بھی ہوئے یوں کبھی طاقتور اور کبھی کمزور لیکن حاکم رہے اور ایسا وقت بھی آیا کہ ہندوستان مغرب میں سونے کی چ ...

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 ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan On March 15, 2018. Ambassador Yusuf Buch, former senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General has elucidated in New York that if there had been popular support in Kashmir for joining India, the dispute over Kashmir would have lasted for a year or so at the most. It would have dissolved long ago. “The situation in Kashmir has nothing to do with passivity or docility in the ...