By Sajjad Shaukat The 14th August which is celebrated every year as the Independence Day, has come at a time when Pakistan is facing multiple threats of grave nature internally and externally, which are not only worrying all the citizens, and are creating divisions among the federal and provincial governments including political parties. As the government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rejected the draf ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A deadly suicide bomber in Quetta-the provincial capital of Pakistan killed at least 74 people and wounded more than 100 on August 8, 2016 in an attack at the government-run Civil Hospital. Earlier, on the same day, unknown armed men killed Balochistan Bar President Bilal Anwar Kasi at Mannu Jan Road of Quetta. The dead body of the prominent lawyer was transferred to the Civil Hospital. Th ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Pakistan on August 3, this year to participate in the 3-day conference of the interior ministers/home ministers and other delegates of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member states, held in Islamabad. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit came at a time, when the tensions between Pakistan and India is running high in ...

by Asif Haroon Raja PPP-MQM 5-year rule in Sindh from 2008 to 2013 had devastated Karachi. The cosmopolitan city of lights was destablised by the MQM with the help of its target killers trained in India with an additional base in South Africa under a well calculated plan of India and its strategic partners to bleed Pakistan’s economic hub centre and crumble its economy. Well over 5000 innocent people had be ...

By Sajjad Shauka tFrom time to time, controversy arises between Afghanistan and Pakistan when Afghan officials refused to recognize the Durand Line which is the 2640 kilometer long and porous border, situated between both the countries. The issue again came to the limelight on June 12, 2016 when Afghan security forces started unprovoked firing at Torkham border crossing, resulting in injuries to more than 1 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja After the mysterious death of Gen Ziaul Haq in a plane crash on August 17, 1988, the era of unstable democratic era commenced in which PPP and PML-N took turns. None could complete the mandated five years and each tenure ranged from two to two-and-half years. President Ghulam Ishaq and President Laghari used the axe of Article 58-2B, handed over to them by Gen Zia to fell the governments ...

نغمہ حبیب کشمیری اپنے حق خودارادیت کی جنگ لڑ رہے ہیں اور مسلسل قربانیوں کی تاریخ رقم کر رہے ہیں ان کی کئی نسلیں اپنی جانیں قربان کر چکی ہیں لیکن آزادی حاصل کرنے کی خواہش نہیں مری اور یہ خواہش مر بھی نہیں سکتی کیونکہ یہ انسانی فطرت نہیں کہ غلامی کی زنجیروں میں جکڑا رہے اور خوش رہے ،راضی رہے ،چپ کرکے بیٹھ جائے اور اپنے دشمن کو یہ اجازت دے کہ وہ اس کی قسمت کا مالک بنا بیٹھا رہے چونکہ یہ ممکن نہیں اسی لیے کشمیر ...

By Ali Sukhanver The whole of Pakistani nation observed 20th of this July as a Black Day in showing solidarity with the helpless people of the Indian Held Kashmir who have been facing all kind of atrocities at the hands of the cruel Indian army for the last many decades. The history of these cruelties is replete with so many examples of callousness and pitilessness of the Indian authorities against the Kash ...