Rejoinder to Praveen Swami by Asif Haroon Raja Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of the two archrivals. Messages have been conveyed in a subtle way under the guise of revival of talks and friendship. The motivation behind writing this article is the floati ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The term of terrorism has been so confused that there is no exact definition of terrorism. The problem is confined to political terrorism which occurs when a group, whether holding governmental office or outside government, resolves to pursue a set of ideological objectives by methods which not only subvert or ignore the requirements of domestic and international law, but also rely for the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and Pakistan, including rest of the world celebrate July 19 as the Day of Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan, as on this very day in 1947, the historical resolution was adopted by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Abi Guzar, Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim K ...

نغمہ حبیب کشمیرپاکستان کی شہ رگ ہے یہ ایک بات ہی نہیں حقیقت ہے یہی کشمیر ہے جس سے پاکستان کے دریانکل کر آتے ہیں اور پاکستان کے کھیتوں کھلیانوں میں خون کی طرح دوڑ کر اس کی سرسبزی شادابی اور زندگی کا باعث بنتے ہیں۔ یہ قدرتی طور پر بھی پاکستان کا حصہ ہے،جغرافیائی بھی، تاریخی بھی اور سب سے بڑھ کر مذہبی بھی لیکن اس کے باوجود اس پر بھارت نے غیر قانونی قبضہ کیا ہوا ہے اور آج اکیسویں صدی میں بھی یہ ایک غلام خطہ ہے۔ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Burhan Wani, the popular Commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was martyred by the Indian government forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on July 8, 2016. After the martyrdom of Burhan Wani, widespread and spontaneous protests erupted throughout the IOK. In order to control the mass movement, the Indian occupation forces unleashed reign of terror against the Kashmiri civilians. As a resul ...

By Sajjad Shaukat European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom have suspended the flight operations of Pakistan’s national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to and from their airports following the statement by Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan that nearly 300 PIA pilots’ licences have been suspended, as these were fake. The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) said that ban on t ...

نغمہ حبیب پاکستان ایک پُر امن ملک ہے جسے اپنے بہت سارے مسائل سے نمٹنا ہے، اس کی سرحد پر ایک بھارت کی موجودگی ہی کافی ہے کہ اس کے امن کو داؤ پر لگائے رکھے لیکن ہو یہ رہا ہے کہ بھارت صرف خود ہی نہیں بلکہ دوسرے پڑوسی ممالک کے ذریعے بھی پاکستان میں فساد برپا کرنے کی کوششوں میں مصروف رہتا ہے۔ افغانستان میں اُس نے وہاں کی حکومتوں کو عرصہ دراز سے ہائی جیک کیا ہوا ہے اور جو چاہتا ہے اُن سے کراتا ہے۔ یہی حال ایران ک ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although since Narendar Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became Indian prime minister in 2014, he started implementing ideology of Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism), especially by persecuting the Indian Muslims, yet during his second tenure; Modi government accelerated the completion of the agenda, particularly targeting the Muslims. Indian extremist rulers’ various moves such as abroga ...