By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control and Pakistan including rest of the world celebrate July 19 as the Day of Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan, as on this very day in 1947, the historical resolution was adopted by the by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Abi Guzar, Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim K ...

By Asghar Khan Our thought process – whether creative and progressive or conventional and hidebound – has had its eternal enemies in the form of prejudices, pre-conceived notions, personal likes and dislikes which obstruct it from achieving clarity. This tendency of human mind to commit itself, wittingly or otherwise, to its inherent dispositions not only renders the human thought confused, intimidated and ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The Martyrs’ Day, known as Youme Shuhada-e-Kashmir is observed on July 13 every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the Kashmiris to pay homage to 22 Kashmiris who were martyred in 1931 to free Kashmir from the brutalities of despotic Dogra rulers. The day is the milestone in the history of Kashmiri struggle against foreign occupation. However, the history o ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the direction of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Stafff General Raheel Sharif, country’s superior intelligence agency, ISI done hard to bring almost all the factions of Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table in order to have talks with the Afghan government. These efforts materialized when representatives from both the sides reached Islamabad. In this regard, Pakistan Foreign Office said, “To ...

By Ali Sukhanver Staying at luxuriously comfortable five-star hotels, doing a lot of air-traveling to different cities of Iran, visiting the tomb of Firdosi in Neeshapur, the tomb of Imam Khomeini in Tehran, the National Library, the Palaces of Raza Shah Pehalvi near Tajreesh and so many other places of Iran’s national importance; all was dreamingly wonderful and enchantingly attractive. Last month, I had a ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In its report on July 2, this year, the Amnesty International has highlighted extrajudicial killings of the innocent persons at the hands of Indian security forces in the Indian Held Kashmir. The report points out, “Tens of thousands of security forces are deployed in Indian-administered Kashmir…the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) allows troops to shoot to kill suspected militants ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although India has been destabilizing all regional states through its well-planned and deliberate strategy, however, its major focus has always been towards Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir. In this respect, while speaking to high-profile anchor Barkha Dutt of Indian NDTV news channel, ahead of the launch of his book, “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years”, former Chief of Indian secret agency RAW, ...

پاکستان بھارت کے پاکستان میں مداخلت کے ثبوت اقوام متحدہ میں پیش کرے گا۔ یہ فیصلہ وزیر اعظم اور آرمی چیف کی ملاقات میں کیا گیا ہے ویسے بھارت خود یہ ثبوت پچھلے کچھ عرصے سے پیش کررہا ہے۔ اس کے وزیر مشیر سے لے کر وزیراعظم تک سب ببانگ دہل اپنی تخریبی ذہنیت کا مظاہرہ کررہے ہیں۔ کوئی کہہ رہا ہے کہ پاکستان میں تخریبی کاروائیاں کررہے ہیں کوئی اس کی توجیہہ بھی پیش کررہا ہے کہ ایسا بدلہ لینے کے لیے کیا جارہا ہے۔ مودی ...