نغمہ حبیب 1979 میں سویت یونین نے افغانستان پر حملہ کیا اور اس کی فوجیں افغانستان کے اندر داخل ہو گئیں تو ہزاروں لاکھوں افغان مہاجرین ہجرت کرکے پاکستان میں داخل ہوئے اور پشاور میں پشاور کی اپنی آبادی سے زیادہ افغانی نظر آنے لگے۔ پاکستانیوں نے انتہائی کھلے دل سے ان افغان مہمانوں کو خوش آمدید کہا اور در حقیقت ہجرت مدینہ کی یاد تازہ ہوگئی۔ افغانیوں کی تین نسلیں یہاں جوان ہوئیں اور پچھلے اڑتیس سال میں پیدا ہونے ...

By Zaheerul Hassan At least 108 innocent people embraced shahdit (martyred) and more than 414 injured in eight attacks of different areas in Pakistan. In four days’ time only, the terrorists have hit shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sehwan town (Sindh), Police leadership in Lahore, Judges van in Peshawar, Political Agent office of Mohmand Agency and Army convoy in the Awaran area of Balochistan. In ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has also been extended to other provinces of the country. While, Pakistan’s law-enforcing agencies, especially primary intelligence agency, ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of ter ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist leader Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevai ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 13 people were killed and 85 injured on February 13, this year when a suicide bomber struck outside the Punjab Assembly on the Mall Road in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan during a peaceful protest of the chemists and pharmacists against a new law. Seven police officials, including two senior officers—SSP Operations Zahid Gondal of Punjab Police and DIG Traffic Lahore Capt (r ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Inconsequential Western Pacts In search for security in the face of India’s belligerence and dangerous designs together with Afghanistan’s hostility, Pakistan blundered to join SEATO and CENTO in 1954 and earned the hostility of Afghanistan, former Soviet Union and China. India took these western pacts as an excuse to make a U turn on Kashmir issue. The defense pacts helped Pakistan unde ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Gur is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During and after the presidential election campaign, taking note of the US new President Donald Trump’s religious bigotry, racialism and extremist statements such as calling a “ban on Muslims entering the United States”, “Islam hate us”, opposition to the Muslim refugees, especially from Syria etc., some writers, researches and bloggers, including American politicians have called him a “cr ...