By Sajjad Shaukat Ice started melting between the United States and Pakistan after a long patch of tense relations after the three-day visit of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to the US where he met American President Donald Trump on July 22, 2019 to mend the strained relations between the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa also accompanied the ...

نغمہ حبیب امریکہ افغانستان میں تقریباً بیس سے سال جنگ لڑ رہاہے اور پاکستان اتنے ہی سالوں سے اس پرائی جنگ کی سزا بھگت رہا ہے۔ ہزاروں جانوں کی قربانی اوراربوں روپے کا مالی نقصان الگ۔ دھماکوں اور بد امنی نے پاکستانیوں کے شب وروز کے معمولات کو بُری طرح متاثر کیا تجارت، صنعت، معیشت، ترقی سب جھٹکوں اور دھکوں سے چلتی رہی اور ہم اُس9/11 کا خمیازہ بھگتے رہے جو نہ پاکستان سے ہوا تھا نہ پاکستانیوں نے کیا تھا لیکن افغا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian extremist Prime Minister Narendar Modi’s new anti-Muslim moves such as the continued lockdown in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) after abrogation of the special status of the Jummu and Kashmir by revoking articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution on August 5, 2019 in a malevolent attempt to turn Muslim majority into minority in the IOK, the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CA ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Kashmir - bone of contention Antagonism between India and Pakistan is a never ending phenomenon mainly due to unresolved Kashmir dispute. It is the unfinished agenda of partition in 1947 left behind by the British. After three wars, the two archrivals have so far refrained from going for the 4th round due to nuclear deterrence acquired by Pakistan. While India succeeded in gaining time t ...

By Sajjad ShaukatMushraf The three judges of the special court, comprising Justice Waqar Seth, Justice Nazar Akbar and Justice Shahid Karim awarded the former President of Pakistan General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf death sentence for abrogating the Constitution. In the detailed judgment (split 2-1), issued on December 19, this year, the presiding judge Justice Waqar Seth wrote in a bizarre verdict: “We direct ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On December 16, 2014, in one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, six Taliban militants mercilessly killed least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, They also burnt a lady teacher alive. After eight hours operation, Pak Army’s commandos cleared the school area, and six militants were killed. On the same d ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A report of the watchdog groups entitled ‘Fanning the Flames’, published by the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) on October 31, 2019 provided facts-based evidence regarding complicity of major technological platforms and US corporations in promoting ‘white supremacy’, anti-Muslim’ bigotry and violence across the world. In fact, after the orchestrated drama of the September 11 ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت خود کو دنیا کی سب سے بڑی جمہوریت کہتا ہے۔ یہ درست ہے کیونکہ اِس کی آبادی دنیا کی دوسری بڑی آبادی ہے اور چین میں چونکہ جمہوری حکومت نہیں اس لیے بھارت یہ اعزاز اپنے سرلے لیتا ہے لیکن اگر بھارت کی اقلیتیں اِس کی آبادی میں سے منہا کر دی جائیں، کم ذات ہندو، مسلمان،سکھ، عیسائی،بدھ،جین،پارسی سب نکال دیں تو بھارت باقی ماندہ ہندؤں کے لیے ایک جمہوری ملک ہے۔ اِس جمہوریت کے بھی ہندو مذہب میں انسانوں کے ...