By Sajjad Shaukat Modern history of terrorism shows that it has gone through distinct phases, with shifting missions, messages, and means of mobilizing. But, owing to the US President Donald Trump’s Israeli connections, terrorism has entered the dangerous phase. Everyone knows that Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban were created by the American CIA to fight against the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. In this r ...

نغمہ حبیب ممبئی حملوں کو دس سال ہونے کو ہیں اس دوران حملوں کی ذمہ داری اور ذمہ داران کے متعلق کئی ایک نظریے پیش کیے گئے بھارت نے سارا زور پاکستان کو ذمہ دار ٹھہرانے پر صرف کیا لیکن اُس کی بد قسمتی کہ بہت سارے شواہد اس کے خلاف جاتے رہے اور خود بھارت کے اندر سے بھی ایسی آوازیں اٹھیں جس نے بھارت کو اس کا ذمہ دار بتایا لیکن ایسے میں دس سال بعد ایک انوکھا انکشاف پاکستان کے سابق وزیراعظم نے کیا جنہیں عدالتوں نے ن ...

آج کل ہر گلی اور گھر میں ایک ہی موضوع پر بحث جاری ہے کہ پروفیسر محمد رفیع بٹ نے اعلیٰ ترین سرکاری نوکری چھوڑ کر انتہائی پر خطر راستہ کیوں اختیار کیا تھا؟کوئی کہتا ہے یہ مایوسی کی علامت ہے کہ ایک پی،ایچ،ڈی اسکالر اچھی نوکری ملنے کے بعد اس کو ٹھوکر مار کر وہ راستہ اختیار کرے جس کے قدم قدم پر موت سایے کی طرح پیچھا کرتی ہے ۔کوئی کہتا ہے کہ یہ جذبہ جہاد اور شوقِ شہادت ہے جس میں یہ نہیں دیکھا جاتا ہے کہ میرا منصب ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Speaking regarding the Mumbai terror attack of November 26, 2008, in an exclusive interview, published in the daily Dawn on May 12, this year, Pakistan’s disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unrealistically said: “Militant organisations are active [In Pakistan]…non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can’t we compl ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the occupation of Afghanistan by the US-led NATO forces, the country has become center of the intelligence agencies such as American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad which are in collusion with Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) to obtain the covert designs of the their countries and some Western countries against Russia, China and Pakistan, including Iran. Under the cov ...

By Shirin Gul The bombing of Madressah in Kunduz, Afghanistan, has shocked everyone, Afghanistan Air Force's blunder has once again proved that Afghan government neither has good understanding of dynamic of ongoing insurgency nor the expertise to tackle Taliban. The horrible attack has pushed Afghan National Army (ANA) in 'moral abyss, while strengthening Taliban's public support. Defying every Political th ...

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 ...