By Sajjad Shaukat The ink on Pak-China agreements related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was barely dry when some western media, especially Indian secret agency RAW started playing up the Baloch insurgency. In this regard, the director of The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, 2015, followed by a bomb blast in Sibi, wh ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is a peace loving country and has been subjected to worse kind of terrorism. All amicable efforts to negotiate with the terrorist outfits have failed. In fact, Indian covert and overt activities against the federation of Pakistan had led to the separation of the former East Pakistan in 1971. Now, India has been promoting sub-nationalism in Baluchistan, Khyber Paktunkhwa, Sindh and ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Responsible welfare states irrespective of religion, language, casts, sects, and culture certainly need to protect the rights of its inhabitants whether they belong to majority or majority segments of society. Failing which can stimulate irrecoverable differences, widening the gaps among the society and ultimately let the suppressed people to adopt their own course of action for obtaining ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism, cross-border terrorism etc. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty executed in direct response to some dem ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی بھارت کے مشرقی پنجاب میں سکھوں کے ساتھ ’ہندتوا‘ کا جنونی تعصب کوئی نئی بات نہیں رہی ‘ چونکہ تقسیمِ ہند کے فوراً بعد متعصب اور انتہا پسند ہندو قائدین کو سب سے زیادہ خطرہ مسلمانوں کے بعدسکھوں سے درپیش تھا، تقسیمِ برصغیر کی تاریخ پر غیر جانبدار نکتہ ِٗ نظر رکھنے والے کہتے اور یہ مانتے ہیں کہ اکھنڈ بھارت کے جنونی داعیوں نے سکھوں کی نسل کشی کے منظم منصوبے اپنے مکروہ ذہنوں میں بہت پہلے سے بنار ...

نغمہ حبیب داؤد ابراہیم کہاں ہے بھارت نہیں جانتا لیکن وہ یہ بھی کہتا ہے کہ وہ پاکستان میں ہے جبکہ یہ بھی ممکن ہے کہ وہ بھارت میں ہی ہو لیکن چونکہ پاکستان کے خلاف کوئی نہ کوئی پروپیگنڈا تو کرنا ہے اور شاید موضوعات کی کمی ہوگئی یا پاک چین معاہدوں نے بھارت کو بوکھلادیا تو داؤد ابراہیم کا گاڑھامردہ اکھاڑدیا گیا اور یا اسے شاید اس لیے اکھاڑا گیا کہ کراچی میں ہونے والی دہشت گردی میں بھارت اور را کی مداخلت اور موجو ...

New Dehli (ZM): In last few weeks temperatures in India shoot up hit between 45-50 degrees Celsiu s (113-120 Fahrenheit) that resulted into more than 750 people demise in southern India since the middle of April. Andhra Pradesh and Telengana have been hit the hardest. According to state Deputy Chief Minister Nimmakayala Chinna Rajappa, more than 550 people have died from the unrelenting heat in Andhra Prade ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With national zeal and fervour in different parts of the country, Youm-e-Takbeer (The day of greatness) is celebrated every year on May 28 as a national day to mark the conduction of nuclear tests when on the very day in 1998; Pakistan became the first Muslim and the 7th nuclear power in the world. While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behar ...