By Sajjad Shaukat Anti-Pakistan activities of the Qaumi Movement (MQM) continue unabated. Based in London, its leaders have also foreign connections. In this regard, some online sources pointed out that on April 30, 2017, MQM USA Washington DC chapter held a press conference at Comfort Inn Hotel, Springfield, Virginia from 1800–1900 hours. About 8 to 10 individuals attended the conference. Kamran Haider, Jo ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The May 22 reminds the day when in 2011, 15 terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda attacked on the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy (Airbase), PNS Mehran in Karachi. Two American-built P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft were also destroyed. An intense gunfight broke out between the terrorists and the security forces, including army personnel and naval commandos, and it ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai “The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” President Woodrow Wilson Nel Noddings, eminent American educationalist wrote in Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War that “Gandhi, convinced of the power of Satyagraha, suggested that it be used by the Jews against the Nazis. In response, Martin Buber – who had earlier (1930) written that much could be learned from Gand ...

By Sajjad ShaukatFast growing economic power of China coupled with her rising strategic relationship with the Third World has irked the eyes of Americans, Israelis, some Western countries and particularly, Indians. Owing to jealousy, America desires to make India a major power to counterbalance China in Asia. America which is backing Indian hegemony in Asia, especially to counterbalance China is supplying N ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal Back to the old ignorance Ignorance (jaheliya) is the mother of all failures. And, today’s Muslims stand as the perfect testimony to that. An ignorant man or woman can only survive as a physical being; but can never be a true Muslim. Nor can be even a true humane. Deprivation of Qur’anic knowledge works as the key barrier to that. Before Islam, the Arabs had a long history of ugly ...

By Sajjad ShaukatIn order to deflect the attention of international community from Indian state terrorism and the new phase of the Kashmiri Intifada, India orchestrated the drama at a military base in Uri close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan on September 18, 2016 and killed its own 19 soldiers in one of the most deadly attacks on security forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Like the pre ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The centrist Emmanuel Macron was elected French president by defeating the ultra-nationalist and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election, held on Sunday (May 7, 2017). Macron of the independent En Marche party won 23.75 percent votes and Le Pen of France’s National Front party won 21.53 percent votes. The election victory of Macron has been ...

By Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_15227" align="alignright" width="397"] Maulana Fazlullah, [/caption] Unprovoked Afghan Aggression On May 5, 2017, Afghan border security forces carried out unprovoked firing across the Chaman border in Baluchistan on two Pakistani villages namely Kili Luqman and Kili Jahangir, martyring 11 Pakistani civilians including one Frontier Corps (FC) soldier and injuring ...