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 Sajjad Shaukat Each year, Human Rights Day is observed all over the world, especially by the oppressed nations on December 10, as on this very day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It reflected the conviction that human dignity is at the heart of our societies and that respect for human rights is essential to the prevention of conflict and the ...

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 ...

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 On November 26, 2008, several persons were killed in the simultaneous terror attacks in Mumbai. Without any investigation, Indian high officials and media had started blaming Pakistan. Mumbai attack was just another false flag operation of Indian establishment to gain sympathies of world community and defame Pakistan in the comity of nations. The whole drama was staged to put blame Pakista ...

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 ...

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 ...