By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 on global level, focusing attention on the water crisis as well as the solutions to address it. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22, 1993 as the first World Water Day. Each ...

By Rida Zaheer Cricket Diplomacy between India and Pakistan failed when extremists RSS under the umbrella of ruling Janta Party has countrywide launched protest against Pakistan Cricket Team and threatened to dig the pitches, if neighbor team visit India with regard to T-20 Cricket World Cup—2016 . In this regard Dharamsala was named as the venue on December 11 last year. Political tensions and security con ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Terrorists blasted bus carrying employees of KPK secretariat early in the morning. According to the news three government officials killed and many injured. The exact nature of attack has into yet been ascertained. At least three persons are feared dead and over 10 injured. The bus was carrying over 40 government officials from Mardan. Rescue operations in under its way. The elements of s ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The very agony of the people of Jammu and Kashmir started on March 16, 1846 when the Treaty of Amritsar was signed. Under the Treaty, British colonialists sold Kashmir along with its people e to a Dogra Hindu, Gulab Singh for 7.5 million rupees. The Treaty of Amritsar which was signed by Gulab Singh, Hardinge, Currie and Lawrence had common cause among the parties with the aim to end the M ...

By Sajjad Shaukati-Muslim and anti-Pakistan approach, he has been giving impetus to Hindu chauvinism. In line of his policy against Pakistan, India not only accelerated unprovoked firing at the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir and Working Boundary in Sialkot, but also suspended the Secretary level talks with Islamabad. In the recent past, Modi regime has been raising baseless issue like Pathonkot terror att ...

By Sajjad Shaukat An article, under the title, “Pakistan—A key GCC ally”‏, published in the “Arab News” on January 15, 2016, written by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed needs appropriate attention. Abdulrahman mentioned that three million Pakistanis who work in the Gulf countries, and the $4 billion in annual transactions they make, the region considers relations with Pakistan strategic. He elaborates, “The country is ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 5 March 2016, Hillary Clinton a former secretary of state, and Mr. Trump, a property tycoon have again successfully maintained lead against their opponents.  Both are favourites to win the vast majority and scoring better till now for their respective parties.  Mrs. Clinton so far has managed to get the support of 1066 delegates out of 2383 democrats’ delegates.  She is short of 1317 w ...

نغمہ حبیب بھارت کے وزیراعظم نریندر مودی اس سال برسلز کا دورہ کریں گے یہ دورہ مارچ کے آخر تک متوقع ہے اس دورے کا اعلان پہلی بار نہیں ہوا پچھلے سال بھی ایسا ہی اعلان ہوا تھا لیکن یورپی یونین کی طرف سے کوئی تاریخ اور جواب نہیں آیا اور یوں اسے ملتوی کرنا پڑا۔ بھارت اس وقت اپنے لیے دنیا بھر میں تجارتی منڈیاں تلاش کر رہا ہے جس کے لیے مودی ہر جگہ کا دورہ کرنے کو تیار ہیں چاہے وہاں سے حوصلہ افزاء جواب آئے یا نہ آئے ...