By Sajjad Shaukat Indian government is creating a narrative that there is a strong likelihood of a major terrorist attack from Pakistan in India before or on January 26, 2020. Every year, 26th of January is being celebrated by India as the Republic Day, while, the day is being observed by the Kashmiris on both side of the Line of Control (LoC) and all over the world, including their Pakistani brethren as th ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Kashmir - bone of contention Antagonism between India and Pakistan is a never ending phenomenon mainly due to unresolved Kashmir dispute. It is the unfinished agenda of partition in 1947 left behind by the British. After three wars, the two archrivals have so far refrained from going for the 4th round due to nuclear deterrence acquired by Pakistan. While India succeeded in gaining time t ...

By Sajjad ShaukatMushraf The three judges of the special court, comprising Justice Waqar Seth, Justice Nazar Akbar and Justice Shahid Karim awarded the former President of Pakistan General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf death sentence for abrogating the Constitution. In the detailed judgment (split 2-1), issued on December 19, this year, the presiding judge Justice Waqar Seth wrote in a bizarre verdict: “We direct ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US-NATO-ANSF military operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan have been going on since October 7, 2001 relentlessly and have now reached a stalemate. For all practical purposes, the US had lost the war after it pulled out bulk of 150,000 ISAF troops in December 2014 and allowed its chief foe Taliban to gain initiative and an upper edge in the battlefield. The US is however refu ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On December 16, 2014, in one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, six Taliban militants mercilessly killed least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, They also burnt a lady teacher alive. After eight hours operation, Pak Army’s commandos cleared the school area, and six militants were killed. On the same d ...

The topic has been selected for discussion in the wake of wide scale criticism heaped upon the parliamentary system which we adopted after our independence. 72 years have lapsed but parliamentary democracy has yet not matured and has fallen much short of expectations. It has become a cause of instability rather than stability. The system began to rot after 1988 during the democratic era and became rotten du ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A report of the watchdog groups entitled ‘Fanning the Flames’, published by the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) on October 31, 2019 provided facts-based evidence regarding complicity of major technological platforms and US corporations in promoting ‘white supremacy’, anti-Muslim’ bigotry and violence across the world. In fact, after the orchestrated drama of the September 11 ...

نغمہ حبیب قومی ریاستی ڈھانچے کا ایک اہم ستون عدلیہ ہے جو باقی دو ریاستی ستونوں یعنی مقننہ اور انتظامیہ کے ساتھ مل کر حکومت کے معاملات کو چلاتی اور آگے بڑھاتی ہے لیکن یہ ستون اپنے عمل کار میں آزاد ایسے ہے کہ اس کے فیصلوں پر نہ انتظامیہ اور نہ مقننہ اثر انداز ہو سکتی ہے اور اگر ایسا ہونے لگے تو پورا قومی ڈھانچہ متاثر ہو جاتا ہے کیونکہ جس معاشرے میں انصاف نہ ہووہاں بھلائی پنپ نہیں سکتی اور بُرائی کی جڑ اکھڑ ...