By Arundhati Roy Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers, this place where we are gathered today is only a short bus ride away from where four days ago a fascist mob, fired up by speeches made by members of the Ruling Party, backed up and actively assisted by the police, assured of round the clock support by a vast section of the electronic mass media, and comforted by the belief that the courts wou ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During an interview to a private TV channel on March 15, this year, Pakistan’s Foreign Office’s (FO) former spokesperson Tasneem Aslam made some revelations about the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which shows his pro-Indian approach. Ms. Tasneen Aslam said that during the tenure of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the FO had been instructed not to deliver statements against India ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World. Besides, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely to be completed in the near future. Therefore, some Western countries, especially India and Afghanistan are continuously using their secret agencies in destabilising Pakistan, as development of this country annoy them. In this connection, on February 11, this year, some med ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Ice started melting between the United States and Pakistan after a long patch of tense relations after the three-day visit of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to the US where he met American President Donald Trump on July 22, 2019 to mend the strained relations between the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa also accompanied the ...

By Ram Puniyani In the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) UN High Commissioner, Michele Bachelet, has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court petition challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Amendment Act, as she is critical of CAA. Responding to her, India’s Foreign Minister S. Jai Shanker strongly rebutted her criticism, saying that the body (UNHCR) has been wrong and is blind to the ...

نغمہ حبیب امریکہ افغانستان میں تقریباً بیس سے سال جنگ لڑ رہاہے اور پاکستان اتنے ہی سالوں سے اس پرائی جنگ کی سزا بھگت رہا ہے۔ ہزاروں جانوں کی قربانی اوراربوں روپے کا مالی نقصان الگ۔ دھماکوں اور بد امنی نے پاکستانیوں کے شب وروز کے معمولات کو بُری طرح متاثر کیا تجارت، صنعت، معیشت، ترقی سب جھٹکوں اور دھکوں سے چلتی رہی اور ہم اُس9/11 کا خمیازہ بھگتے رہے جو نہ پاکستان سے ہوا تھا نہ پاکستانیوں نے کیا تھا لیکن افغا ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The people of Jammu & Kashmir are grateful to Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations for having spared time in Islamabad, in the midst of myriad pressures, to discuss the very grave situation in Kashmir – a situation of a threat to the peace and stability of the South Asian Subcontinent and also of continuous and massive violations of human rights. Altho ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Speaking at the inauguration of a four-day program of the International Mother Language Institute at Shegunbagicha in Dhaka on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day on February 21, this year, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid claimed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans had vision of Bangladesh in 1948 on the basis of Bengali language. At the same time, sh ...