By Sajjad Shaukat The ink on Pak-China agreements related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was barely dry when some western media, especially Indian secret agency RAW started playing up the Baloch insurgency. In this regard, the director of The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, 2015, followed by a bomb blast in Sibi, wh ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی پاکستان جہاں ایک آزاد وخود مختار ریاست کی حیثیت سے اپنی باوقار شناخت رکھتا ہے وہاں کوئی ایک پاکستانی اِس تاریخی ‘ واقعاتی شہادت سے منحرف نہیں ہوسکتا کہ ہمارا یہ وطن جسے ہم ’مملکتِ خداداد ‘ کے نام سے تعبیر کرتے ہیں اوراسلامی نظریاتی مملکت ہونے پر بہت فخر کرتے ہیں ،یہی ہے واحد نظریہ ‘ جو ہمارا قابلِ ستائش ثقافتی اثاثہ بھی ہے اور ساتھ ہی ہمارا یہ اسلامی نظریہ بحیثیتِ قوم ہماری انفرادی و اجت ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Responsible welfare states irrespective of religion, language, casts, sects, and culture certainly need to protect the rights of its inhabitants whether they belong to majority or majority segments of society. Failing which can stimulate irrecoverable differences, widening the gaps among the society and ultimately let the suppressed people to adopt their own course of action for obtaining ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism, cross-border terrorism etc. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty executed in direct response to some dem ...

BY Rida Zaheer Washington DC (ZM): Recently, re-elected Sepp Blatter, for his fifth term as president of world soccer’s governing body, resigned his positioned when law enforcement officials confirmed that he was a focus of a federal corruption investigation. He remained on various position for more than 40 years. Mr. Blatter although tried to keep himself away from the controversy, but several United State ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Operation Blue Star was an Indian military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to control over the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, Punjab, and to arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir ...

By Asif Haroon Raja I delivered a talk on China-Pakistan Energy Corridor and its ramifications at Thinkers Forum Pakistan on May 31, 2015, chaired by Air Chief Marshal (retd) Kaleem Saadat and attended by Lt Gen (retd) Lodhi, and members both from civil and military. After the talk, there was long question/answer session followed by summing up by the Chairman. Details of presentation are covered in succeedi ...

نغمہ حبیب داؤد ابراہیم کہاں ہے بھارت نہیں جانتا لیکن وہ یہ بھی کہتا ہے کہ وہ پاکستان میں ہے جبکہ یہ بھی ممکن ہے کہ وہ بھارت میں ہی ہو لیکن چونکہ پاکستان کے خلاف کوئی نہ کوئی پروپیگنڈا تو کرنا ہے اور شاید موضوعات کی کمی ہوگئی یا پاک چین معاہدوں نے بھارت کو بوکھلادیا تو داؤد ابراہیم کا گاڑھامردہ اکھاڑدیا گیا اور یا اسے شاید اس لیے اکھاڑا گیا کہ کراچی میں ہونے والی دہشت گردی میں بھارت اور را کی مداخلت اور موجو ...