By Sajjad Shaukat Last year, the BJP-led Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced economic reforms, claiming that the country’s economy was in a strong position. Encouraging public investments in infrastructure, strengthening the banking systems and catalyzing private investments were key highlights of the policy. The government said that General Sales Tax (GST) had been the biggest refor ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India has all along been trying to breakup Pakistan, but it became a collective target of Indo-US-Israeli nexus after it opted to gain nuclear capability in 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, India and Israel in collaboration kept trying to knockout Kahuta plant. In this regard, imposition of Pressler amendment in 1990 was designed to prevent Pakistan from acquiring this capability. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat More than 100 missile strikes have been launched against Syria by the US, UK and France on Saturday (April 14, 2018) in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack which killed at least 50 people in Syria’s rebel-held town of Eastern Douma on April 7, this year. According to the allies, “The strikes destroyed important infrastructure at three sites connected to the Syrian regime’s chem ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and even murder to fulfill their countries’ selfish aims. But such a sinister politics was replaced by new trends such as fair-dealings, reconciliation and economic development. Regrettably, India is still following the discarded theories of past poli ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent past, trust deficit deepened between Pakistan and the United States when using tough words against her ally, American President Donald Trump revived the old blame game of his predecessors Bush and Obama regarding the cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan. President Trump allegedly said that Washington could “no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe havens for terrorist organ ...

نغمہ حبیب نقیب اللہ محسود کراچی کا ایک پٹھان دکاندار تھا، کراچی میں کروڑوں پختون بستے ہیں اور نقیب اللہ محسود بھی انہی میں سے ایک تھا میڈیا پر اُس کی رنگارنگ تصویریں دیکھ کر اس سٹائلش نوجوان کی موت کا افسوس سب کو ہی ہوا۔ ایس ایس پی ملیر راؤ انوار کا کردار بھی زیر بحث آیا اور شدید ترین عوامی تنقید کا نشانہ بنے اُن کو پکڑنے کے لیے اعلیٰ سطح پر کوششیں کی گئیں آخر کار یہ گرفتاری عمل میں آبھی گئی ۔راؤ انوار کی ش ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the beginning of March, this year, a Hindu woman from a lower caste-Dalit has been elected to the Senate for the first time in Pakistan. A woman Krishna Kumari a human rights activist and member of the Pakistan Peoples Party was elected as a senator on March 3, 2018 and a Taliban-linked cleric was defeated. Krishna Kumari told The Associated Press: “I feel delighted; this was unthinkabl ...

By Sajjad Shaukat New Cold War accelerated between Russia and the US-led West on March 26, this year, when showing solidarity with the UK in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, southern England, more than 20, non-EU and EU member states, including Germany, France and the US expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats with the allegation of spy ...