If implemented without challenge, Pakistan’s National Security Policy (NSP) will inevitably weaken Pakistan’s armed forces, compromising security before the Ummah’s enemies. Such weakening of Pakistan’s defense is aligned to the US policy of preventing Pakistan from being an obstacle to the rise of India as the regional hegemon, so as to confront China and the region’s Muslims on behalf of Washington.

On 9 January 2022, the embattled Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi in Colombo, requested the lightening of interest-based debt repayments to China. Over the last decade China has lent Sri Lanka over $5 billion for highways, ports, an airport and a coal power plant, as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, now the island nation is currently…

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on 27 December ordered the destruction of the twenty-five-year old Madina Masjid on Tariq Road, Karachi, that is used by thousands of worshippers, five times a day. The secular judiciary arrogantly and insensitively ordered the destruction of one of the houses of Allah (swt) to restore a park upon which it is built, on the grounds that it is an “illegal mosque.” 

On November 27, 2021, the Sindh Assembly passed the Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2021 in which the majority powers of local bodies have been transferred to the provincial government. With its majority in Sindh province, the PPP thus took the development funds of Karachi into its own hands.