By Brigadier (Retd) Asif Haroon Raja During his 2024 election campaign and after assuming office on January 6, 2025, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. This promise resonated strongly with American Muslim voters in seven key swing states, significantly contributing to his electoral victory. Portraying himself as a peacemaker rather than a warmonger, Trump nonetheless reigni ...

By Zaheerul HassanFrom Midnight Friday 13th to 17th June 2025, Israel made multiple strikes on eight Iranian cities. Meanwhile with her excellent intelligence outfit, Mossad crippled defence by conducting covert sabotage operations on missile launcher positions, air defense sites, carried out car bombing to target nuclear scientists, even inhuman actions like bursting water pipeline of Iran. In retaliation; ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The short and intense war between the two arch rivals - India and Pakistan- has changed the geopolitical calculus of South Asia. Its reverberations are felt in South Asia, the Middle East and the whole of the globe. Creation of Pakistan on 14 Aug 1947 was a miracle of the 20th century. Pakistan becoming the first Islamic nuclear state in May 1998 was another miracle. Achievement of spect ...

By Zaheerul HassanIndia attacked Pakistan’s territory between 6th, 7th and 8th May 2025 night at nine places, 31 innocent civilians’ martyred and 61 people including children and women injured. Three innocent children were martyred in Bahawalpur and Mazzafarbaf. The details include: Ahmedpur East, Masjid Subhanullah — 13 martyred | two 3-year-old girls, seven women, four men. 37 injured | nine women, 28 men ...

By Asif Haroon RajaDonald J. Trump of the opposition Republican Party won the presidential race against the ruling Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in November 2016 who had three million more votes than Trump, but lost in the Electoral College having 538 decisive votes, in which Trump secured 306 electoral votes. Electoral College is confined to few right leaning States where till recent whites ha ...

Rejoinder to Praveen Swami by Asif Haroon Raja Praveen Swami in his apparently innocent and well-meaning article titled ‘The Time might have come for India and Pakistan to talk’ has made designed distortions in the recent past history of the two archrivals. Messages have been conveyed in a subtle way under the guise of revival of talks and friendship. The motivation behind writing this article is the floati ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the US-led Western countries which spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan held a series of international conferences in order to bring stability and peace in that war-torn country with the aim of starting withdrawal of NATO forces in 2013, which had to be completed in 2014. They had agreed that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be achieved there. Hence, these countr ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indo-Pakistan unabated antagonism Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of the Partition in 1947 which was left behind by the British and it has bedeviled Indo-Pakistan relations. The two arch rivals went to war thrice over Kashmir and reached the brink of war several times even when both acquired nuclear capabilities. Armed Kashmiri uprising erupted in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in summer ...