By Asif Haroon RajaDonald J. Trump of the opposition Republican Party won the presidential race against the ruling Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in November 2016 who had three million more votes than Trump, but lost in the Electoral College having 538 decisive votes, in which Trump secured 306 electoral votes. Electoral College is confined to few right leaning States where till recent whites ha ...

Rejoinder to Praveen Swami by Asif Haroon Raja Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of the two archrivals. Messages have been conveyed in a subtle way under the guise of revival of talks and friendship. The motivation behind writing this article is the floati ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the US-led Western countries which spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan held a series of international conferences in order to bring stability and peace in that war-torn country with the aim of starting withdrawal of NATO forces in 2013, which had to be completed in 2014. They had agreed that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be achieved there. Hence, these countr ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indo-Pakistan unabated antagonism Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of the Partition in 1947 which was left behind by the British and it has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations. The two arch rivals went to war thrice over Kashmir and reached the brink of war several times even when both acquired nuclear capabilities. Armed Kashmiri uprising erupted in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in summer ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The entire world is facing the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) which has taken the life of more than 195,000 persons and infected 2.8 million people (Up to April 26, 2020) A majority of the deaths and affected cases have been recorded in the USA and Europe where this deadly virus has, rapidly, been spreading. Having best medical equipments and facilities, these countries do not blame each ...

نغمہ حبیب اس وقت دنیا ایک ایسی آفت اور وباء کا سامنا کر رہی ہے جس کے لیے وہ ہر گز تیار نہ تھی اور نہ ہی اس کی ابتداء ہونے پر اُن ملکوں نے کوئی خاص توجہ دی جہاں یہ دیر سے پہنچی اور یوں اس وائرس کو کھل کھیلنے کا موقع مل گیااور یہ مسلسل تباہی مچاتا چلا جا رہا ہے۔ دنیا کا کوئی ملک چاہے بڑا ہو یا چھوٹا اس سے محفوظ نہیں اور اس نے وہاں کم یا زیادہ اپنے اثرات ضرور مرتب کیے ہیں اورتقریباََ دنیا کے ہر ملک میں اموات ہ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Owing to its fragile economy, after the 9/11 tragedy, Pakistan joined the US-led Global War on Terror (GWoT) and was granted the status of non-NATO ally by America due the early successes, achieved by Pakistan’s Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) against the Al-Qaeda militants. But, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since Narendar Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became the Indian Prime Minister in 2014, he started implementing ideology of Hindutva ((Hindu Nationalism). Under his regime, persecution of religious minorities such as Dalits, Sikhs, Christians and particularly Muslims, including even of lower cast-Hindus might be cited as instance. In this regard, the Indian Citizenship Amendment ...