نغمہ حبیب پانامہ کا ایک لمبا چوڑا سکینڈل اور مقدمہ چلا اور پاکستان کی عدالتی تاریخ میں ایک روشن باب شامل ہوا کہ ہماری عدالتوں میں ایسے منصفین بھی موجود ہیں جو حقیقتاََ حاکم وقت سے پوچھ گچھ کر سکتے ہیں۔فیصلہ آیا ،ملک کے وزیر اعظم کو نا اہل قرار دیا گیا تو عوام نے بھی تسلی کا سانس لیا اور اُمید کرنے لگے کہ اب اُنہیں بھی انصاف ملنے لگے گا ،اُن کی دولت ملک میں واپس لے آئی جائے گی،اُن کے مجرم کم از کم اُن کے حکم ...

By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets Fearing takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz Amin and installed a communist regime under Babrak Karmal. Pakistan could not remain unconcerned with this intervention because of Moscow’s age-old quest for warm waters, its strategic partnership with archrival India and 7 million Afgha ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan In a memorandum submitted to Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Barrister Sultan Mehmood Choudhary, former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir and Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum highlighted the following: We are writing to urge a leadership role of the United Nations in resolving the 70-year-old Kashmir conflict that ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 others injured on October 1, this year, when a gunman opened fire on concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. An American national, Stephen Paddock was identified by the US security agencies as the shooter, who was armed with as many as 20 weapons, including automatic and semi-automatic rifles an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat We always remember the innumerable contributions of the Pakistan’s Armed Forces in disaster management—their services and sacrifices, as noted in relation to the military operations again the terrorists—resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), floods, desilting of canals (Bhal Safai) etc, entailing restoration of law and order on many occasions. In the recent past, Armed Fo ...

By Yasmeen Ali North Korea can never be a threat to USA. It does not share a border with the latter. Not by a long shot is it a possibility that Pyongyang will send its arm forces or launch missiles to conquer USA. Neither does North Korea possess long range bombers. North Korea also does not possess an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver nuclear warheads upon USA. Washington’s threatening ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although from the very beginning a gulf existed between Pakistan-US relations, yet American President Donald Trump is widening it due to his political follies. During the heightened days of the Cold War, despite Pakistan’s membership of the US sponsored military alliances SEATO and CENTO, including Pak-US bilateral military agreement, America did not come to help Pakistan against India whi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Motivated origination of war on terror Drama of 9/11 provided a readymade excuse to George W. Bush and his team of Neocons to wage wars against targeted Muslim countries, accomplish their geo-strategic and geo-economic ambitions in Eurasia as envisaged in New World Order and to rule the world for next 100 years. Bush initiated the war on terror on October 7, 2001 to rid the world from te ...