By Asif Haroon Raja Inconsequential Western Pacts In search for security in the face of India’s belligerence and dangerous designs together with Afghanistan’s hostility, Pakistan blundered to join SEATO and CENTO in 1954 and earned the hostility of Afghanistan, former Soviet Union and China. India took these western pacts as an excuse to make a U turn on Kashmir issue. The defense pacts helped Pakistan unde ...

نغمہ حبیب دنیا کے ہر ملک میں ایسے واقعات ہوتے رہتے ہیں جب حکومت کے خلاف بھی مظاہرے ہوتے ہیں اور عمالِ حکومت کے خلاف بھی جمہوری حکومتوں میں یہ سب حقوق عام شہری کو حاصل ہوتے ہیں۔ اسی طرح قانون ہاتھ میں لیا جاتا ہے اور توڑا بھی جاتا ہے اور اس چیز کو قابو کرنے کے لیے پولیس اور قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے فعال کردار ادا کرتے ہیں۔ جرم کو ختم کرنے اور مجرم کو پکڑنے کے لیے ہی یہ ادارے بنائے جاتے ہیں اور وہ کام سب سے ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Gur is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament ...

Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Strategy teams are closeted in ‘war rooms’, hunched-hooked over computers Leading an army: Captain Amarinder Singh at a meeting in Bathinda on 30 th January 2017 (Monday). Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is in command of his campaign. 1. Sardar Manpreet Singh Badal seems looking surprisingly at the face of Captain Amarinder Singh keeping in view of and facing ‘THE POLL STRATEGIC-TA ...

By Ali Sukhanver London based Indian writer Mirza Waheed very vehemently exposed the real face of the Indian atrocities in Kashmir in his article ‘India is blinding young Kashmiri protesters’. The article was published on 18th July 2016. He says, “Two sets of images have haunted me these last few days. One is a series of photos of people splashing bucket-loads of water to wash away blood from the streets of ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although since 1990, the 5th of February is being celebrated by Pakistanis and Kashmiris as ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ to pay homage to Kahsmiri martyrs and to show solidarity with the freedom fighters who are demanding their legitimate right of self-determination, as recognized by the UN resolutions, yet this time, the very day has come at time when the people of Kashmir have accelerated th ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان اور افغانستان دو برادر ہمسایہ ممالک ہیں جو مذہبی، تاریخی اور جغرافیائی لحاظ سے جڑے ہوئے ہیں بلکہ ان کے نسلی تانے بانے بھی آپس میں ملتے ہیں اور لسانی مماثلت بھی موجود ہے ۔اِن تمام رشتوں ناطوں کے باوجود یہ دونوں اپنی جداگانہ حیثیت رکھتے ہیں اور الگ الگ اکائی کے طور پر موجود ہیں ۔ افغانستان اور پاکستان کے مابین سرحد تقریباََ ڈھائی ہزار کلومیٹر طویل ہے جو دونوں ممالک کی کسی دوسرے ملک سے طویل ت ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Non-resolution of Palestinian and Kashmir dispute gave rise to Islamic radicalism. After the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the ten-year Iran-Iraq war ended inconclusively in 1988 but militarized and radicalized the two countries. Iraq under Saddam Hussain was supported by the two super powers, the west and the Arab world. While Iran completed its revolutionary cycle under Imam Khom ...