By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain on May 31, this year, gave his assent to the recently-passed 31st Constitution Amendment Bill, paving the way for the much-delayed merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. With a clear majority, the bill was already approved by both houses of Parliament as well as the KP Assembly. After signing the ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Since 1989, Indian army, paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies have been using various tactics of state terrorism in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) to crush the war of liberation. These tactics have intensified after the young Kashmir leader Burhan Wani was martyred by these forces on July 8, 2016. In the aftermath of this extrajudicial killing, protests have continued by the K ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  Questions Concerning the India-Pakistan question, submitted by the Representatives of Cuba, Norway, United Kingdom and United States and adopted by the Security Council on March 14, 1950. (Document No. S/1469), dated the 14th March, 1950). THE SECURITY COUNCIL, Having received and noted the reports of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan establishing its resolution ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned historians agree that besides other causes, major cause of the French Revolution of 1789 was the class distinction between the privileged and the unprivileged, which rapidly increased under the reign of King Louis XVI who had continued the policy of taking out international loans, and the debt drove the country to near bankruptcy, leading to the Revolution. They opine, “The French ...

Ishaal Zehra Indian Occupied Kashmir continue to witness bloodshed as Indian forces are indiscriminately and incessantly hunting down the innocent people in the name of so-called search operations. Though the Indian government announced to suspend these operations during the holy month of Ramadan, however, on the second Friday of the Ramadan, heavy shelling was used to disperse protesting crowds outside Sri ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Foreign powers which have been supporting the Baloch Sub-Nationalists (BSNs) as part of their unfinished agenda against Pakistan and its Armed Forces leave no stone unturned in misguiding the Baloch people by manipulating one after another issue. In this regard, in the recent past, water scarcity and low rain-falls in the far flung areas of Balochistan province has contaminated water sourc ...

By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal The ideological cousins & Israel’s immunity The world looks dangerously unsafe for the defenceless Muslims. The Muslims of Palestine, Kashmir, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, Xinjiang and many other parts of the world indeed suffer very badly. The millions of victims of the state-run atrocities can’t see any light of hope even at the distant end of the dark tunnel. How the world can att ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extremist party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime Minister Modi came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support of fanatic coalition outfits. As regards the victory of the ...