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. In this respect, Indian top officials and TV channels had remarked that Indian Mujahideen and the banned Lashkar-e-Tayba (LeT) based in Pakistan, Hafiz Muhammad and country’s primary intelligence agency ISI ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan On March 15, 2018. Ambassador Yusuf Buch, former senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General has elucidated in New York that if there had been popular support in Kashmir for joining India, the dispute over Kashmir would have lasted for a year or so at the most. It would have dissolved long ago. “The situation in Kashmir has nothing to do with passivity or docility in the ...

By Asif Haroon Raja In his ten year rule, Field Marshal Ayub Khan achieved phenomenal all round results mainly because he had kept the politicians out till 1964 under EBDO. He debarred the politicians from politics for ten years on account of their dismal performance after the murder of Liaqat Ali Khan in October 1951. Their incompetence and their indifference to the rule of law and constitution making as w ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Strange are the ways in this land of the pure which at times stuns the world by bagging world records in various fields, be it sports, academia, technical and artisan skills, military professionalism, nuclear knowhow, charity, hospitality, or resilience to face crisis. On the other hand, it suffers from the stigma of being the most dangerous country in the world. Ignoring the strengths, ...

Ishaal Zehra The attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 - designated as 26/11 - left 162 people dead in a traumatic event that some people described as India's 9/11. Extensive media coverage has created the impression that all the relevant facts on this audacious operation have been reported. Unfortunately, this impression is false, says Elias Davidsson in his book on the 2008 attacks that occurred in Mumbai, I ...

نغمہ حبیب کہ تم ان کے جلسے سجاتے ہو تم اِن کے ووٹ بناتے ہو اِن کو لیڈر بناتے ہو ان کو ایوانوں میں بھیجتے ہو اور جب یہ تمہارے ہی پیسوں سے تمہارے ہی ٹیکسوں سے تمہارے خون پسینے کی کمائی سے چند سڑکیں بناتے ہیں کچھ ٹیوب ویل لگاتے ہیں کوئی شفاخانہ کسی سکول کی تعمیر کرتے ہیں تو تم پلکیں بچھاتے ہو پتیاں اِن پر لٹاتے ہوں اور پیارے عوام یہ لیڈر اپنی تجوریوں کی گرہ کومزید مضبوط اور محفوظ بنا کر بڑی تسلی کے ساتھ اپنی آ ...

By Sajad Shaukat Protests erupted after the Indian security forces martyred 22-year-young Kashmir leader Burhan Wani on July 8, 2016. A new wave of Indian brutalities has set in with the martyrdom of the eminent leader. In the aftermath of his martyrdom, new uprising (Intifada) started in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Unlike the past, mostly, the young persons are participating in the demonstrations an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 2002 Gujarat riots were a three-day period of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat by extremist Hindus under the guidance and command of the Indian Prime Minister Narinder Modi who was chief minister of Gujarat and mastermind the massacre of the Muslims. Besides previous massacre of Muslims, more than 2500 Muslims were killed in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where h ...