By Sajjad Shaukat The ongoing military operation Zarb-e-Azb which started on Jun 15, 2014 against the militants in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) is successfully achieving its objectives. On June 10, this year, Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif, while recounting the successes of security forces in the Zarb-e-Azb said, “Terrorists have been cleared and dislodged from their strongholds in North Wazirista ...

San Francisco, CA (June 07, 2015)( ZM): Thousands of North American Sikhs converged in downtown San Francisco to commemorate the 31st year of Indian Army’s invasion of Golden Temple in which thousands of Sikh pilgrims were massacred. A highly visible stage at the San Francisco City Hall carried the larger than life portrait of slain Sikh separatist leader Sant Bhindranwle, while the speakers paid homage to ...

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 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 ...

 سیّد ناصررضا کاظمی پاک بھارت اختلافات پر مسلسل بحث ومباحثہ اور باہم تکرار کرنے والوں میں ایک طبقہ ہمارے ہاں ایسا بھی پایا جاتا ہے جو اپنے آپ کو ’غیر جانبدار‘ مانتا ہے یہ طبقہ رہتا بستا تو پاکستان میں ہے، اپنے آپ کو پاکستانی بھی کہلواتا ہے مگر‘ اپنے افکارو خیالات کے اظہار کے ذریعے سے ایسے لوگ کسی نہ کسی عذر بہانوں کی آڑ میں ‘ اور کبھی ’امن‘ کے نام پر اپنا فکری ونظری وزن بھارت کے پلڑے میں ڈالنے کبھی ٹلتے نہی ...