By Brig (R) Asif Haroon Iran is a brotherly Muslim country with which Pakistan has enjoyed geographical, cultural, religious and historical ties. Both had best of ties during the rule of Reza Shah Pehlavi. Iran supported us during the 1965 and 1971 wars with India and provided helicopters in 1974 to defeat Baloch insurgency. Pakistan also has extended all sorts of help. The biggest was when it let Iran to r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat From 31 March to 1 April, 2016, heads of more than 50 countries and the leaders of four international organizations will negotiate and finalize new commitments to improve nuclear security protocols around the world at the fourth Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in Washington, D.C. Two years ago, in Berlin, the US President Barrack Obama had formally announced his plan to host a fourth and fin ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Ajit Doval, the ex-spymaster who is now National Security Advisor of Indian Prime Minister Minister Narendra Modi is the real author and controller of India’s offensive-defensive doctrine. Besides planning various terror attacks in Pakistan as part of Indian offensive-defensive doctrine, Ajit Doval also advised to arrange various subversive acts inside India and to shift the blame game to ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir Email: clay.potter@hotmail.com This tiny piece of rock, rubble and water vapors called planet Earth tucked into a remote part of our galaxy ‘s tail , among millions of such galaxies in the universe seems to have taken on a significance far beyond what it deserves. Is it because man knows no other competitive race anywhere else in the vast universe or because there is actually none ? O ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 37 people have been killed and several seriously injured in the coordinated terror attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station, which took place today. The state-owned Belga news agency reports that shots were fired and shouts in Arabic were heard before the two explosions. The attacks come four days after Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive in the Paris attac ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 23rd of March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the Sub Continent, when All India Muslim League passed the Resolution in Lahore for the creation of an independent state. Now, it is popularly called as Pakistan Resolution. Earlier, in his address to the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, the idea of a homeland for Muslims in their majority areas had been envisioned by the poet All ...

نغمہ حبیب 1968 میں بھارت نے اپنی خفیہ ایجنسی ’’را‘‘ کی بنیاد رکھی جس کا سب سے بڑا مقصد پاکستان کے خلاف کام کرنا تھا اور وہ اُس نے کیا۔مشرقی پاکستان جہاں تین اطراف سے بھارت سے گھرا ہوا تھا وہیں مغربی پاکستان سے ہزار میل کے فاصلے پر تھا اور بھارت کے لیے ایک آسان ہدف تھا لہٰذا اُس نے اس کا بھر پور فائدہ اٹھایا اور مشرقی پاکستان میں مغربی پاکستان کے خلاف نفرت پھیلانا شروع کر دی۔خود بھارتی لکھنے والوں نے اس بات ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 on global level, focusing attention on the water crisis as well as the solutions to address it. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each ...