Our Political Dynamics: Challenges and Response

By General Mirza Aslam Beg Former COAS, Pakistan friendscolumn@hotmail.com Imran Khan introduced “Dharna” in 2014, to bring about regime change. The same now has recoiled back on him, knocking at his doors with greater intensity. The Religious Right under Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) having remained a marginalized political entity for the last seventy two year, has suddenly emerged ...

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Kashmir: Another Black Day, India Continues Lockdown

By Sajjad Shaukat 27th of October is celebrated every year as the Black Day by the Pakistanis and the Kashmiris all over the world as a protest against Indian illegal occupation of Kashmir on October 27, 1947. Every year, the Black Day is marked by complete shutdown, as deserted streets, closed businesses and security patrolling the streets could be seen in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). But, this time ...

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P.M. Imran Khan’s Successful Strategic Visit to China

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited China at a crucial time when epoch making changes and power shift is taking place in the region and beyond. P.M. Imran visited at the invitation of H.E. Li Keqiang, Premier of China from October 8-9, 2019. By all standards, the visit was a resounding success in strategic terms. Premier Imran Khan ...

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PTM: Mohsin Dawar, A Traitor On Sale

By Sajjad Shaukat Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was erected as a bogey by hostile agencies in the name of Pashtuns, same old wine in new bottle. Three leaders were created from local breakaway faction of Awami National Party (ANP) and activists of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Mohsin Dawar, who was courted in US by Hussain Haqqani’s SAATH forum and Stimson centre has become a pawn in the ...

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Kashmir on edge of precipice

By Asif Haroon Raja Geographic aspects of J&K State The State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is situated at the extreme western section of Great Himalayan Range where it merges with Hindu Kush, Karakorum and Central Asia. It borders for about 600 miles with Sinkiang and Tibet provinces of China in north and east, and in the south and west for 580 miles with Pakistan. A 30 miles corridor of Wakhan in Afg ...

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India: Gross Human Rights Abuses in Kashmir Continue

By Sajjad Shaukat Since 1947, in order to maintain its illegal control, India has continued its repressive regime in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) through various machinations. Especially, since 1989, Indian army and paramilitary forces have been committing gross human rights abuses such as crackdowns, curfews, illegal detentions, massacre, targeted killings, extrajudicial killings, sieges, burning the ...

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Why Opposition Parties’ Poor Response on Kashmir?

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian forces have continued lockdown and curfew the in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) since August 5, this year when Indian fanatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked the special status of the Jummu and Kashmir after scrapping articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution to turn Muslim majority into minority. More restrictions have been imposed in wake of shortage of foods a ...

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19th July: Kashmir-Accession to Pakistan Day

By Sajjad Shaukat Preparations have started by Kashmiris living either side of the line of control and rest of the world to observe the Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan Day on July 19, this year. On this very day in 1947, the historical resolution was adopted by the by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Abi Guzar, Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim ...

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