By Sajjad Shaukat On November 28, this year, in a short verdict, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) granted six-month conditional extension of service to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa whose tenure was supposed to finish on November 28, 2019. Reading the verdict, the CJP said that army chief’s tenure period had not been ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Implementing the August 5 announcement which revoked the special status of the Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, Indian central government issued a notorious map on October 31, this year. In accordance with it, Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two union territories— Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement that Islamabad “rejects these political map ...

By Asif Haroon Raja FuR had become a political orphan and was in wilderness after July 2018 elections. He suddenly came in the limelight as a result of his million Azadi March which he launched in last week of October. His threats to stage a huge sit-in at Islamabad (Isbd) were not taken seriously by the government (govt) and agencies. In their assessment, he could at best gather few thousand supporters and ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, various conferences and seminars have been held regarding the security of nuclear weapons and radioactive materials, as the participant countries were worried that terrorist outfits like the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL) may get these fatal weapons and can use against a state actor or any country to create misunderstanding, which may culminat ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت خود کو دنیا کی سب سے بڑی جمہوریت کہتا ہے۔ یہ درست ہے کیونکہ اِس کی آبادی دنیا کی دوسری بڑی آبادی ہے اور چین میں چونکہ جمہوری حکومت نہیں اس لیے بھارت یہ اعزاز اپنے سرلے لیتا ہے لیکن اگر بھارت کی اقلیتیں اِس کی آبادی میں سے منہا کر دی جائیں، کم ذات ہندو، مسلمان،سکھ، عیسائی،بدھ،جین،پارسی سب نکال دیں تو بھارت باقی ماندہ ہندؤں کے لیے ایک جمہوری ملک ہے۔ اِس جمہوریت کے بھی ہندو مذہب میں انسانوں کے ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Almost three months have been passed. Indian forces have continued lockdown and curfew in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). In order to hide human rights violations, communication services in that region have been cut off from the world and foreign delegations and journalists are not allowed to enter the IOK. On August 5, 2019, New Delhi unilaterally annexed the IOK, revoking articles 35A ...

جنرل مرزا اسلم بیگ سابق چیف آف آرمی سٹاف پاکستان Email: friendsfoundation@live.co.uk حکومت کی تبدیلی کے لئے دھرنے کی روایت عمران خان نے 2014میں ڈالی تھی جس کا اب خود انہیں سامنا ہے کیونکہ اب وہی ’حکومت کی تبدیلی‘ کی لہر کہیں زیادہ شدت کے ساتھ ان کے اقتدار کے درواز ے تک پہنچ چکی ہے-مولانا فضل الرحمن کی قیادت میں دائیں بازوکی مذہبی جماعتیں جوگذشتہ بہتر سالوں سے سیاسی طور پر بے وقعت رہی ہیں‘ اچانک قومی سیاسی ا ...

By General Mirza Aslam Beg Former COAS, Pakistan friendscolumn@hotmail.com Imran Khan introduced “Dharna” in 2014, to bring about regime change. The same now has recoiled back on him, knocking at his doors with greater intensity. The Religious Right under Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) having remained a marginalized political entity for the last seventy two year, has suddenly emerged ...