سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی پاکستان جہاں ایک آزاد وخود مختار ریاست کی حیثیت سے اپنی باوقار شناخت رکھتا ہے وہاں کوئی ایک پاکستانی اِس تاریخی ‘ واقعاتی شہادت سے منحرف نہیں ہوسکتا کہ ہمارا یہ وطن جسے ہم ’مملکتِ خداداد ‘ کے نام سے تعبیر کرتے ہیں اوراسلامی نظریاتی مملکت ہونے پر بہت فخر کرتے ہیں ،یہی ہے واحد نظریہ ‘ جو ہمارا قابلِ ستائش ثقافتی اثاثہ بھی ہے اور ساتھ ہی ہمارا یہ اسلامی نظریہ بحیثیتِ قوم ہماری انفرادی و اجت ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is a peace loving country and has been subjected to worse kind of terrorism. All amicable efforts to negotiate with the terrorist outfits have failed. In fact, Indian covert and overt activities against the federation of Pakistan had led to the separation of the former East Pakistan in 1971. Now, India has been promoting sub-nationalism in Baluchistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Sindh and ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Responsible welfare states irrespective of religion, language, casts, sects, and culture certainly need to protect the rights of its inhabitants whether they belong to majority or majority segments of society. Failing which can stimulate irrecoverable differences, widening the gaps among the society and ultimately let the suppressed people to adopt their own course of action for obtaining ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism, cross-border terrorism etc. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty executed in direct response to some dem ...

BY Rida Zaheer Washington DC (ZM): Recently, re-elected Sepp Blatter, for his fifth term as president of world soccer’s governing body, resigned his positioned when law enforcement officials confirmed that he was a focus of a federal corruption investigation. He remained on various position for more than 40 years. Mr. Blatter although tried to keep himself away from the controversy, but several United State ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to control over the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, Punjab, and to arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir ...

By Asif Haroon Raja I delivered a talk on China-Pakistan Energy Corridor and its ramifications at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on May 31, 2015, chaired by Air Chief Marshal (retd) Kaleem Saadat and attended by Lt Gen (retd) Lodhi, and members both from civil and military. After the talk, there was long question/answer session followed by summing up by the Chairman. Details of presentation are covered in succeedi ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی بھارت کے مشرقی پنجاب میں سکھوں کے ساتھ ’ہندتوا‘ کا جنونی تعصب کوئی نئی بات نہیں رہی ‘ چونکہ تقسیمِ ہند کے فوراً بعد متعصب اور انتہا پسند ہندو قائدین کو سب سے زیادہ خطرہ مسلمانوں کے بعدسکھوں سے درپیش تھا، تقسیمِ برصغیر کی تاریخ پر غیر جانبدار نکتہ ِٗ نظر رکھنے والے کہتے اور یہ مانتے ہیں کہ اکھنڈ بھارت کے جنونی داعیوں نے سکھوں کی نسل کشی کے منظم منصوبے اپنے مکروہ ذہنوں میں بہت پہلے سے بنار ...