By Sajjad Shaukat Although from the very beginning a gulf existed between Pakistan-US relations, yet American President Donald Trump is widening it due to his political follies. During the heightened days of the Cold War, despite Pakistan’s membership of the US sponsored military alliances SEATO and CENTO, including Pak-US bilateral military agreement, America did not come to help Pakistan against India whi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Motivated origination of war on terror Drama of 9/11 provided a readymade excuse to George W. Bush and his team of Neocons to wage wars against targeted Muslim countries, accomplish their geo-strategic and geo-economic ambitions in Eurasia as envisaged in New World Order and to rule the world for next 100 years. Bush initiated the war on terror on October 7, 2001 to rid the world from te ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Controversial referendum which was held on September 25, 2017 for an independent Kurdistan, with approximately 93 percent in favour of independence, heightened tensions in Iraq and among its neighbouring countries, including other Islamic countries. In this regard, on June 7, 2017, Kurdish President Masoud Barzani had held a meeting with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic ...

نغمہ حبیب خود کو دنیا کی سب سے بڑی جمہوریت کہنے والا بھارت پچھلے ستر سال سے اپنے شہریوں کو مطمئن نہیں کر سکا اور وہ ایک یا دوسری وجہ سے خود کو نظر انداز تصور کرتے ہوئے حکومت کے خلاف صف آرا ہیں کہیں وہ حقوق کی جنگ لڑ رہے ہیں اور کہیں آزادی کی اور ایسی 30 سے زیادہ جنگیں مختلف مقامات پر مختلف انداز میں لڑی جا رہی ہیں۔ تحریک جیسی بھی ہو جس بھی انداز کی ہو بھارت کی جمہوریت کا اصلی چہرہ ہر آئینے میں نظر آتا ہے۔ و ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Both houses of Pakistani Parliaments Senate and National Assembly passed a resolution on 30 August 2017, strongly condemned US President Donald Trump's statement and his allegations that Islamabad is behind prolonged war in Afghanistan, denouncing as "hostile" and "threatening." In response, complete political elite sounded unanimously on the issue and out rightly condemned Trump statemen ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since August 25, this year, brutal military operations against the Rohingya Muslims across the Rakhine State accelerated in Myanmar (Burma), which forced thousands of the Muslims to migrate to Bangladesh. During the crackdowns, security forces committed deliberate human rights violations such as mass gang rapes, merciless killings, brutal beatings, beheadings of babies and children, arson ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s National Assembly (Lower house of parliament) has unanimously passed a resolution on August 30, this year, calling on the government to consider suspending supply lines to the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan in response to the recent US accusations that the country is harbouring militant groups. In his speech on August 21, 2017, while announcing the US new strategy in Afghani ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Donald Trump’s policy speech on Afghanistan It took Donald Trump and his team 8 months to formulate Afghan policy, which was hailed by India and Afghan Government, but received with concern by Pakistan, China and Russia. It was a U-turn to what Trump had promised during the election campaign that he will reduce US military engagements in conflict zones, cut down defence budget, revise US ...