By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism has caused massive damage to the prosperity of Pakistan. In this context, the Parliamentary Secretary for Interior, Maryam Aurangzeb, while informing the National Assembly on December 19, 2014 said, “Pakistan which has been major victim of terrorism has suffered a loss of almost 80 billion dollars including loss of 50,000 precious lives of civilians and security agencies…huge col ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت کی پاکستان سے دشمنی پہلے بھی نہ کچھ کم تھی نہ ڈھکی چھپی تھی لیکن جب سقہ بین الاقوامی دہشت گرد مودی بھارت کا وزیراعظم بنا تو اس میں کچھ اور اضافہ ہوا اور اب جب پاکستان اور چین کے درمیان موجودہ اقتصادی راہداری کا معاہدہ ہوا تو جیسے بھارت کے وزیراعظم سے لے کراس کے ہر وزیر اور مشیر کا منہ پاکستان کے خلاف کھل گیا بلکہ یوں کہیے کہ اس کے ایوانوں میں جیسے آگ بھڑک اٹھی اور ایک طرف براہ راست اس معاہدے ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Every one of us does acknowledge that internet media brought revolution and proved as tool of connecting world, emerged as the best source of knowledge, created jobs, introduced E-Commerce and E-Business, spreading knowledge through online books and education. Unfortunately, some criminal minded IT ex perts used its characteristics notoriously and trying to turned it out as an abuse to th ...

By Brig® Mehboob Qadir This may initiate a soul searching about one of the little known effects of 71 War but for the bone deaf and genetically dumb; the ones who have steadfastly refused to learn from their mistakes, are unwilling to identify the country's arch enemy and too eager to hug those who wish to see this country succumb to the level of Dalit like abject servility. After, what Mr. Modi admitted in ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The ink on Pak-China agreements related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was barely dry when some western media, especially Indian secret agency RAW started playing up the Baloch insurgency. In this regard, the director of The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, 2015, followed by a bomb blast in Sibi, wh ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With national zeal and fervour in different parts of the country, Youm-e-Takbeer (The day of greatness) is celebrated every year on May 28 as a national day to mark the conduction of nuclear tests when on the very day in 1998; Pakistan became the first Muslim and the 7th nuclear power in the world. While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behar ...

نغمہ حبیب انسان ازل سے اپنی بقا ء کی خاطر جدوجہد میں مصروف ہے اور نہ صرف انسان بلکہ وہی جاندار اپنا وجود برقرار رکھ سکتا ہے جو دوسرے کے اوپر حاوی ہو سکے اور جب بات قوموں کی آتی ہے تو جب تک کوئی قوم اپنے مدمقابل کے مقابلے میں قوت اور طاقت حاصل نہیں کر لیتی اس کی بقا ء کی کوئی ضمانت نہیں دی جاسکتی۔ ہتھیار کی اہمیت یوں تو ہر زمانے میں رہی ہے لیکن آج کی جدید دنیا میں ہر روز نئے، زیادہ طاقتور اور تباہ کن ہتھیار ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past few years, gang warfare, criminal activities and target killings have taken the lives of thousands of persons including the personnel of the Rangers and Police in Karachi. A number of terror-related incidents including sectarian violence have also resulted into several casualties. Therefore, the Present Government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the targeted operati ...