By Sajjad Shaukat Deliberately created controversy over the Joint Investigation team (JIT) set up on April 20, 2017 by the Supreme Court (SC) to probe the business dealings of the Sharif family abroad in connection with the Panama Papers’ verdict accelerated on June 12, this year, when the JIT team told the SC that some governmental departments have shown reluctance in handing over relevant records. Media r ...

By Yasmeen Aftab Ali “It will not be long before we get this phone call from Saudi Arabia, ‘Are you with us or against us?’ Are we ready to take that call?” The news of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt breaking off all diplomatic ties with Qatar, a close ally to Islamabad, by land, sea and air made headline news around the world. The Gulf States have given a time of two weeks to the Qat ...

سنگ دلی کی ہے کمائی بزدلی برطانیہ نے جب امریکی ایماءکی حمائت میں افغانستان اورعراق میں نیٹوکی زیرقیادت اپنی افواج کوجنگی کاروائیوں میں حصہ لیناشروع کیاتھا،تواس وقت اسے اندازہ نہیں تھاکہ اس کی سرزمین پربھی جوابی حملے ہوسکتے ہیں لیکن ''سیون سیون'' کے واقعے نے برطانیہ کو ہلاکررکھ دیاتھا جس کے بعد برطانیہ میں سیکورٹی کے غیرمعمولی اقدامات سے صورتحال کافی حد تک بہترہوگئی تھی لیکن برطانیہ کو پچھلے تین ماہ کے واقعا ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal The mother of all crimes Even the best and the most powerful law or constitution stands powerless and easily violated if there exists no powerful authority to enforce that. In absence of such an authority, even the most magnificent laws of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la stay defunct. In such a state, even the heart land of Islam go under the full occupation of the evil. The rule of the w ...

By Rida Zaheer Two favorites teams South African and Lankan going to play against teacher today in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017. Match will begin GMT: 2:29. In last two matches, England beaten Bangladesh in the first match and the second match closed without reaching at end. It has been played between Australia and New Zealand. Australia narrowly escaped in this match since New Zealand gave target of 292   ...

Kulbhushan: The Spy of India’s Ruthless Terrorism By Sajjad Shaukat Relations between Pakistan and India further deteriorated since May 9, this year when on the appeal of India, the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) stayed the hanging of Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadhav who was arrested by Pakistan’s security forces from Balochistan on March 3, 2016. Notably, Indian role in Pakistan became naked ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In its 2017 annual report on religious freedom in the world, released on April 26, 2017, US Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended 16 countries, including Pakistan for their deteriorated condition of religious freedom and demanded from US Department of State to designate these countries as Countries of Particular Concern (CPC). On the state of religious free ...

By Ali Sukhanver Those who are interested in the secrets of the hidden world of the intelligence agencies might have read this famous quotation, ‘a spy sitting in the right place saves the life of at least 20,000 soldiers of his nation’. But the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav simply turned this quotation upside down. Instead of saving 20000 soldiers he put the whole Indian nation into trouble. How pathetic is ...