Malik Muhammad Ashraf

The management of foreign affairs is an arduous undertaking, in view of the fact that they are not conducted in conformity with the principles enshrined in the UN Charter but are orchestrated in conformity with the strategic and geopolitical interests. Principles, conventions and international laws are for the smaller and weaker nations while big powers […]

Civilized nations and governments ruling the state with a mandate of the people invariably show great respect for their senior citizens and take all possible steps to make their lives comfortable as a token of appreciation for the services that they rendered in the development of their countries. They are extended multiple privileges that reflect […]

In a video message to a webinar organised by Washington-based advocacy group, Indian American Muslim Council, last week, world-renowned scholar, author, and activist, Noam Chomsky, observed, “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West but it is taking its most lethal form in India.” “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist regime has sharply […]

Ever since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China in 1951, they have always been on the upward curve without seeing any hiccups. It is indeed a unique relationship that has now been transformed into infallible bonds between the two countries. It is an enviable synthesis of unchangeable geographical realities, inseparable long-term strategic, […]

The Indian security forces have been using ruthless force to suppress the freedom struggle of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K), which they launched in 1989 after having been frustrated by the Indian intransigence to grant them the right of self-determination. According to reports compiled by human rights organizations and other authentic […]

Machiavelli, regarded as the father of nationalism, is usually perceived as a proponent of politics divorced from conventional morality and bringing forth all means in the quest for political power, even the most unscrupulous. There are many takers of that view and in most of the third world countries including Pakistan, morality has no place […]

Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry had admitted that it was a mistake on the part of the PTI government not to hold new elections for local bodies during the first year of coming into power. He further confessed that the chief ministers have been resisting the restoration of the local governments. He deserves a […]

It is indeed a misfortune that peace, security and economic prosperity of the South Asian region remain hostage to innate Indian desire for hegemony, its continued occupation of IIOJ&K in contravention of the UNSC resolutions and her hostile posture towards Pakistan, more so since the advent of Modi regime in India. Indian designs to go […]

According to the Indian Independence Act, the rulers of princely states were given the choice to freely accede to either India or Pakistan or to remain independent. However, Lord Mountbatten, while speaking to the Chamber of Princes on June 25, 1947, said, “The Indian Independence Act releases the States from all their obligations to the […]

A two-member bench of the Supreme Court has ordered the Punjab government to restore the local government system by October 20. It also summoned the incumbent and former chief secretaries on the next date to answer why they failed to implement the court decision regarding their restoration. The apex court had ordered the restoration of […]