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 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On September 18, 2016, Indian media had said that four “fidayeen,” highly-trained militants who were carrying guns and grenades stormed a base in Uri, close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan and killed at least 17 soldiers in one of the most deadly attacks on security forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in two decades. The four attackers were killed by the army, as an Indi ...

نغمہ حبیب خود کو دنیا کی سب سے بڑی جمہوریت کہنے والا بھارت پچھلے ستر سال سے اپنے شہریوں کو مطمئن نہیں کر سکا اور وہ ایک یا دوسری وجہ سے خود کو نظر انداز تصور کرتے ہوئے حکومت کے خلاف صف آرا ہیں کہیں وہ حقوق کی جنگ لڑ رہے ہیں اور کہیں آزادی کی اور ایسی 30 سے زیادہ جنگیں مختلف مقامات پر مختلف انداز میں لڑی جا رہی ہیں۔ تحریک جیسی بھی ہو جس بھی انداز کی ہو بھارت کی جمہوریت کا اصلی چہرہ ہر آئینے میں نظر آتا ہے۔ و ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the backing of some state actors and after its defeat by the Russian-led coalition of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon-based Hezbollah in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL) is rapidly spreading its tentacles in South Asia. In fact, it was due to the dual policy of the US-led Europe, Israel and India that ISIS which is most dangerous terrorist group than ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s armed forces have successfully broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad which have also been extended to other parts of the country, including Balochistan. And Pakistan’s primarily intelligence agency, ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwartin ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Minister of External affairs Jaswant Singh who served the BJP for 30 years was expelled from the party for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan) and echoing the pain of the Indian Muslims in his book, “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence.” While pointing out the BJP’s attitude towards the minorities, Singh wrote: “Every Muslim that lives in India is a loyal Indian…lo ...

                                                         Integrated Border Management:Scope, Challenges and Framework for Pakistan by Rashid Munir Siddiqui (2017)  Table of Contents Abstract. 3 Introduction: 4 Significance/Scope of Study. 5 Review of Literature: 5 Research Methodology. 7 Organization of the Paper:. 7 Section –I. 7 Concept, Objectives, and Ingredients of Integrated Border Management (IBM). 7 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since August 25, this year, brutal military operations against the Rohingya Muslims across the Rakhine State accelerated in Myanmar (Burma), which forced thousands of the Muslims to migrate to Bangladesh. During the crackdowns, security forces committed deliberate human rights violations such as mass gang rapes, merciless killings, brutal beatings, beheadings of babies and children, arson ...