By Ali Sukhanver Those who are interested in the secrets of the hidden world of the intelligence agencies might have read this famous quotation, ‘a spy sitting in the right place saves the life of at least 20,000 soldiers of his nation’. But the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav simply turned this quotation upside down. Instead of saving 20000 soldiers he put the whole Indian nation into trouble. How pathetic is ...

نغمہ حبیب زکوۃ اسلام کا چوتھا رکن ہے اورصاحب نصاب مسلمانوں پر ایک خاص شرح سے فرض ہے زکوۃ کو اللہ تعالیٰ نے مال کی پا کی فرمایا ہے اور اس کا مقصد ایک مسلمان کے دل میں دوسرے ضرور تمند مسلمان کا احساس پیدا کرنا ہے اور چونکہ اسلام خالی خولی باتوں کا قائل نہیں بلکہ یہ عملی اقدامات کا قائل ہے لہذا اُس نے زکوۃکو صرف تلقین تک محدود نہیں رکھا بلکہ اسے ان صاحب نصاب مسلمانوں پر فرض کیا یوں دوسرے مسلمان کی ضروریات کو پ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While showing aggressive designs, on May 11, 1998, the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee surprised the international community by announcing that India has conducted three nuclear tests earlier that day. On May 13, 1998, India conducted two more nuclear tests. In order to create balance of power in South Asia, Pakistan successfully conducted five nuclear tests on May 28, 1998 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 23 people have been killed and 59 persons injured in a terror attack at Grande Arena concert in Manchester on the night of last Monday (May 22, 2017). British police said that the attack was carried out by a single suicide bomber, who also died. Afterwards, the man who targeted the Grande Arena gig has been named as 22-year-old Salman Abedi who was a British national and the child ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The May 22 reminds the day when in 2011, 15 terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda attacked on the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy (Airbase), PNS Mehran in Karachi. Two American-built P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft were also destroyed. An intense gunfight broke out between the terrorists and the security forces, including army personnel and naval commandos, and it ...

By Sajjad ShaukatFast growing economic power of China coupled with her rising strategic relationship with the Third World has irked the eyes of Americans, Israelis, some Western countries and particularly, Indians. Owing to jealousy, America desires to make India a major power to counterbalance China in Asia. America which is backing Indian hegemony in Asia, especially to counterbalance China is supplying N ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal Back to the old ignorance Ignorance (jaheliya) is the mother of all failures. And, today’s Muslims stand as the perfect testimony to that. An ignorant man or woman can only survive as a physical being; but can never be a true Muslim. Nor can be even a true humane. Deprivation of Qur’anic knowledge works as the key barrier to that. Before Islam, the Arabs had a long history of ugly ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The Swat Operation which started on May 16, 2009 still remains in the mind of every patriot Pakistani. The area occupied by the terrorists was successfully cleared by Pakistan’s Armed Forces. In this regard, Swat peace accord was signed on February 15, 2009 between the government and the militants led by Sufi Muhammad, head of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). It was agreed to establis ...