By Asif Haroon Raja Change of guards After the nerve wracking drama on April 9 and melodramatic ending at midnight, the PTI regime had to throw in its towel and hand over the reins of power to the opposition. On April 11, the opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif (SS) was elected as the new PM unopposed since the PTI boycotted the voting. SS straightaway announced a relief package in the form of 10% increase in ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Amidst the ruckus created in the parliament lodges on 10 March on account of the Ansarul Islam militants of JUI-F entering the building and taking over its security to protect Maulana Fazlur Rahman, which was duly covered by the media, the TV channels splashed the breaking news at about 7 pm that the DG ISPR will hold a press conference at 8 pm. In the wake of political turmoil created b ...

By Ghulam Nabi Fai The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, confirms the human rights of women as an ‘inalienable, integral and indivisible part of human rights.” The Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action, both are an outcome of more than two decades of collective efforts of the international community. NGO’s and civil society at large, and their who ...

By Asif Haroon Raja A person wearing glasses Description automatically generated with medium confidence"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." - Frederick Douglass The US administration under the hegemony of Milit ...

By Asif Haroon Raja‘Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine, suborned and then subjugated, Russia becomes an empire’. BrzezinskiWestern Pledge to GorbachevOnce the Soviet Empire built by Lenin-Stalin began to totter after the defeat and ouster of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in Feb 1989, followed by fall of Berlin wall, the 14 Soviet Republics and the Soviet satellite states start ...

By Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal The betrayal and the punishment Muslims are the only people on the earth assigned to work as the viceroy of the Almighty Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la. It is indeed the highest honour that a human can ever imagine. This is the only reason that makes a man or woman to bear the title of a Muslim. The term “Muslim” is the emblem of total surrender to Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la. So it signifie ...

By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal Morality or immorality never remains hidden. It becomes more visible when one gets superior weapons or wins a war. The USA invented nuclear weapons before anyone else. Such a weapon of mass destruction gave the USA the ultimate opportunity to display its worst immorality before the whole world. The USA dropped those bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima of Japan and torched both the citi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India China clash and Pakistan Global upheavals The recent times have seen upheavals at the global, regional and domestic levels. At the global level, much against the expectations of a thaw in the strained relations between the US under Joe Biden and China-Russia, ego and arrogance have come in the way of the change. The US considers China to be the chief threat to its global monopoly s ...