By Sajjad Shaukat Suddenly tension has intensified between Russia and the US with the order of the American President Donald Trump, when in the early hours of April 7, this year, using the pretext of chemical weapons attacks and blaming the Assad regime, the US warships fired 60 cruise missiles at the Shayrat Airfield controlled by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. This was supposedly in respon ...

by Asif Haroon Raja “In the coming days the American people will learn that the (US) Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib”. Former DIA Col Patrick Lang The civil war was triggered in Syria in March 2011 by the Syrian rebels supported by the US, NATO, Saudi led Gulf States and Turkey. The war has wrought havoc and the country lay utterl ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although in the recent past, some leaders of the ruling parties of the province of Sindh as well as those of the central government, including their parliamentarians were reluctant in extending the special powers, given to the Rangers under the Anti-Terrorism Act, yet after the recent wave of terrorism in the country, these leaders and parliamentarians not only extended the special powers ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in a suspected suicide explosion on Monday (April 3, 2017) in a crowded metro train on the St. Petersburg subway system. Following the blast, a second explosive device was found and defused at another station. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described the attack as a “terrorist act.” Next day, Russian investigators disclosed that a 2 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the martyrdom of the Kashmiri leaders Burhan Wani by the Indian security forces on July 8, 2016, a new wave of brutalities have begin in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK). Despite intermittent curfews and brutal tactics of Indian police and other security forces, demonstrations have continued. To suppress the protesters, Indian Forces started playing havoc with the protesters resulting into ...

علی سخن ور بھارت کی طرف غیر معمولی جھکاؤ کے باعث ممکن ہے بہت سے پاکستانی امریکا کو پاکستان کے دوستوں میں شمار کرنے سے ہچکچاتے ہوں، لیکن بین الاقوامی مراسم کی دنیا میں دوستیوں اور دشمنیوں کی بنیادیں ہم عام انسانوں کی زندگی سے بالکل ہی مختلف ہوتی ہیں۔ ملکوں کی سطح پرروز مرہ کے واقعات، دوسروں کی پھیلائی ہوئی غلط فہمیوں، نامناسب فیصلوں اور دہشت گردوں کے ایک بین الاقوامی نیٹ ورک کی کاروائیوں کے نتیجے میں عارضی ا ...

By: Santosh Kumar Election process is the sacred soul of a democracy. After India’s independence, voting rights were granted to all the adults irrespective of caste, creed, gender, religion etc., without any discrimination. Earlier the voting process were done using paper based ballots. The election process gradually became more prone to manipulation with violence and Booth capturing. Also, the counting pro ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In order to pollute the minds of the patriot people of the Baluchistan province against the federation of Pakistan, every year Baloch Sub Nationalists (BSNs) observe March 27 as a black day on alleged annexation of Kallat state with Pakistan in 1948. During this very day, shutter down strikes in small and far-flung areas of Balochistan and demonstrations of small attendance by exiled BSNs ...