By Asif Haroon raja After the false flag operation in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, India blamed Pakistan, ISI and Hafiz Saeed led Lashkar-e-Taiba for the attacks (1), and suspended composite dialogue with Pakistan that had been renewed in February 2004 as a consequence to Indo-Pakistan peace treaty and a commitment to resolve all disputes including Kashmir issue through talks. Since then, India pushed aside ...

By Sajjad Shaukat It is most lamentable that by ignoring the modern global trends like renunciation of war, disarmament, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development, India’s endless nuclear programme has endangered the regional security. In this regard, India test-fired its longest range surface-to-surface nuclear ballistic missile Agni-5 from the Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on D ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Various forms of state terrorism by the Indian forces have continued unabated by the Indian security forces on the innocent Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in wake of sieges and prolonged curfews, including arrests and detentions of the Kashmir leaders. Since July 8, 2016, Indian security forces have martyred more than 600 innocent persons who have been protesting against th ...

Book Review By Brig Asif Haroon Raja (Retired) I was invited by Muslim Institute Islamabad as one of the speakers to attend book launching ceremony of a book titled “Separatist Movements in India” (in Urdu) authored by eminent Tariq Ismail Sagar. Let me at the outset compliment Mr. Sagar for his commendable effort in writing this well-researched book “Separatist Movements in India”. What is heartening to no ...

نغمہ حبیب 26 جنوری 2018 کو بھارت نے ایک بار پھر اپنا یوم جمہوریہ منایا۔ بھارت میں حکومت جمہوری ہے اور یہ جمہوری حکومت ظاہر ہے وہاں کی اکثریت یعنی ہندؤں کے ہاتھوں منتخب ہوتی ہے یعنی اکثریت کی حکومت اکثریت کے لیے اکثریت کے ذریعے اس میں اقلیت کے کچھ نمائندوں کے نام تو ضرور آجاتے ہیں کام یا حصہ ان کا حکومت میں کہیں نہیں یوں جمہوریت کا تسلسل قائم ہے اکثریت حاکم ہے اقلیت محکوم اور محکوم بھی ایسی کہ جسے آئے روز حا ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, unbridgeable trust deficit existed between Pakistan and the United States because of America’s double game with Islamabad. But, President Donald Trump’s flawed strategy in South Asia, based upon anti-Pakistan moves, has taken the Pakistan-US ties to point of no return. It is notable that during the heightened days of the Cold War, despite Pakistan’s membership of the U ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, 26the of January is being celebrated by India as the Republic Day. But, the day is being observed by the Kahmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and all over the world, including their Pakistani brethren as the Black Day in protest against Indian illegal occupation of Kashmir. This time, the very day has come at time when the people of Kashmir have accelerated their ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The pro-Israeli US President Donald Trump whose extremist policies have accelerated the domestic extremism in the US, will take the country to the “state of nature” when there was a “war of all against all”. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which monitors hate group and other extremists throughout the United States and exposed their activities to law enforcement agencies, media and the p ...