By Sajjad Shaukat If we take cognizance of related-developments in the world, especially in South Asia and the Middle East, we can note that the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL), including its linked terror organizations and similar other outfits are being supported by the US, India and Israel who are the real masters of this militant group. Some European countries like the Great Bri ...

نغمہ حبیب پانامہ کا ایک لمبا چوڑا سکینڈل اور مقدمہ چلا اور پاکستان کی عدالتی تاریخ میں ایک روشن باب شامل ہوا کہ ہماری عدالتوں میں ایسے منصفین بھی موجود ہیں جو حقیقتاََ حاکم وقت سے پوچھ گچھ کر سکتے ہیں۔فیصلہ آیا ،ملک کے وزیر اعظم کو نا اہل قرار دیا گیا تو عوام نے بھی تسلی کا سانس لیا اور اُمید کرنے لگے کہ اب اُنہیں بھی انصاف ملنے لگے گا ،اُن کی دولت ملک میں واپس لے آئی جائے گی،اُن کے مجرم کم از کم اُن کے حکم ...

By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets Fearing takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz Amin and installed a communist regime under Babrak Karmal. Pakistan could not remain unconcerned with this intervention because of Moscow’s age-old quest for warm waters, its strategic partnership with archrival India and 7 million Afgha ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 others injured on October 1, this year, when a gunman opened fire on concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. An American national, Stephen Paddock was identified by the US security agencies as the shooter, who was armed with as many as 20 weapons, including automatic and semi-automatic rifles an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have successfully broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad which have also been extended to other parts of the country, including Balochistan province and Karachi. Army and ISI have broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of terror attem ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although from the very beginning a gulf existed between Pakistan-US relations, yet American President Donald Trump is widening it due to his political follies. During the heightened days of the Cold War, despite Pakistan’s membership of the US sponsored military alliances SEATO and CENTO, including Pak-US bilateral military agreement, America did not come to help Pakistan against India whi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Motivated origination of war on terror Drama of 9/11 provided a readymade excuse to George W. Bush and his team of Neocons to wage wars against targeted Muslim countries, accomplish their geo-strategic and geo-economic ambitions in Eurasia as envisaged in New World Order and to rule the world for next 100 years. Bush initiated the war on terror on October 7, 2001 to rid the world from te ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Era of Gen. Ziaul Haq (July 5, 1977-August 17, 1988) PML-N under Nawaz Sharif (NS) flourished under the patronage of late Gen Ziaul Haq. It took full advantage of Gen. Zia’s animus against the PPP which was then the largest political party and was under the sway of Bhuttoism even after ZA Bhutto was hanged in April 1979 on orders of the then Supreme Court. Gen. Zia in search of a politic ...