نغمہ حبیب پاکستان اور افغانستان دو پڑوسی مسلمان ممالک ہیں لیکن حیرت انگیز طور پر حکومتی سطح پر زیادہ تر دونوں کے تعلقات کشیدہ ہی رہے ہیں۔ عوامی طور پر بھی اکثر اوقات خانہ جنگی کے شکار اس ملک کے عوام کو جب پناہ کی ضرورت محسوس ہوتی ہے تو پاکستان کی طرف دوڑتے ہیں اور جب دوران جنگ ذرا دم لیتے ہیں تو ان میں ایک طبقہ پاکستان کے خلاف بولنے لگ جاتا ہے اور پھر ایک نئی خانہ جنگی میں الجھ جاتے ہیں اور اپنی اس جنگجویان ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since Donald Trump became the president of the United States, his emotional, contradictory and extremist policies have resulted into negative impact on the US and world. Taking note of his flawed internal and external policies, some Americans call him a stick man, while some call him a mad man. However, America is witnessing an unusual cataclysm under unbridled unleashing of “Trumpism”. Pr ...

By Ishaal Zehra Indian occupied Kashmir has remained tensed for long now. The powerful surge of retaliation against Indian brutalities which began two years back has intensified this year. Death of Kashmiri civilians at the hands of Indian Military has become a routine in guise of counter-militancy operations in the valley. These counter-insurgency operations have destabilized Indian held Kashmir since the ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India has all along been trying to breakup Pakistan, but it became a collective target of Indo-US-Israeli nexus after it opted to gain nuclear capability in 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, India and Israel in collaboration kept trying to knockout Kahuta plant. In this regard, imposition of Pressler amendment in 1990 was designed to prevent Pakistan from acquiring this capability. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat More than 100 missile strikes have been launched against Syria by the US, UK and France on Saturday (April 14, 2018) in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack which killed at least 50 people in Syria’s rebel-held town of Eastern Douma on April 7, this year. According to the allies, “The strikes destroyed important infrastructure at three sites connected to the Syrian regime’s chem ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and even murder to fulfill their countries’ selfish aims. But such a sinister politics was replaced by new trends such as fair-dealings, reconciliation and economic development. Regrettably, India is still following the discarded theories of past poli ...

نغمہ حبیب سوات پاکستان کے ان خوبصورت علاقوں میں سے ہے جس کا حسن دنیا کے کسی حصے کے انسان کی آنکھیں خیرہ کر دیتا ہے یہ پُر امن شہر ہمیشہ سے قدرتی حسن کے دلدادہ سیاحوں کے لیے باعث کشش رہا ہے وہ یہاں بڑے شوق سے آتے تھے ، فطرت سے محبت کی پیاس بجھاتے تھے اور سوات کے مہمان نواز لوگوں کی مہمان نوازی کا خوب فائدہ اٹھاتے تھے اور خوشگوار تعلقات کی یادیں ساتھ لے کر واپس بحفاظت اپنے ملکوں کو پلٹ جاتے تھے۔ پھر معلوم نہی ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, trust deficit deepened between Pakistan and the United States when using tough words against her ally, American President Donald Trump revived the old blame game of his predecessors Bush and Obama regarding the cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan. President Trump allegedly said that Washington could “no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organ ...