“The world powers have voiced not a syllable of reproach to India for its human rights violations in Kashmir. Their tacit message to India's leaders: your economic attractiveness and hegemony in South Asia exculpate your human rights atrocities in Kashmir. Does that reflect a profile in courage?” this was stated by Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General of World Kashmir Awareness during the 41st Annual Con ...

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 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_14420" align="alignright" width="300"] An FARDC colonel fix a medal on pakistani MONUSCO contingents during medal parade of Pak Batt 1 et Pak Avn Unit 2 in Bukavu, the 28th of September 2013. © MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti[/caption] Every year, International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers is celebrated on May 29 to pay tribute to all those who served in the UN p ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the earlier this month, the draft bill which was up for public consultation was published on the Indian home ministry’s website. It suggests that anyone distributing a map the Indian government deems to be wrong and could be liable for a billion-rupee fine and jail time. Through passage of this bill, the Indian government would be able to penalize individuals and organizations who depic ...

حبیب ایک اور وفادار پاکستانی پھانسی چڑھ گیااُسے سزا ہی صرف پاکستانیت کی دی گئی ۔مطیع الرحمان امیر جماعت اسلامی بنگلہ دیش تھے نہ صرف پاکستان کے وفادار تھے اور پاکستان کے خلاف کام کرنے والوں میں شامل نہ ہوئے بلکہ 1971 کے مشکل ترین حالات میں بھی پاکستان کی حفاظت کے ہراول دستے میں شامل رہے وہ اُن لوگوں میں سے تھے جنہوں نے دشمن یعنی بھارت اور اِس کی پروردہ مکتی باہنی کے سامنے ہتھیار نہیں ڈالے بلکہ ڈٹے رہے۔شیخ مج ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned historians agree that in the post-Napoleonic era, the Treaty of Chaumont which was made in March 1814, by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria…even the Vienna Settlement (1815) and various conferences of the Concert of Europe (1815-22) were used for the purpose of suppressing nationalism and liberalism everywhere in Europe and restoring the status quo…sealed the triumph of r ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Proactive, reactive, offensive and counter intelligence operations are obligatory elements of well comprehensive thoughtful intelligence plan of proxy wars. Usually, the plans of such nature in proxy wars are being executed through organized intelligence network in the rival countries. Execution of covert intelligence operations while using the invisible state’s sponsored actors really br ...

Ishaal Zehra No matter how much exaggerated claims India makes about the personal rapport of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the US President Barack Obama, truth remains apparent as luminosity in the dark. Earlier it was the statement of president Obama who, at the end of the recent Nuclear Security Summit, talked about India and Pakistan in the same breath, bracketing them together. Obama desired ...