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Of the several activities of our national life that have bearing on national security, two aspects, i.e., Defence and the Psycho-social, enjoy the status of National Power. These will be…
Now, even the conventional idiots will know that such situations cannot last long. The state is in crisis, the government is as well. An SHO will have more authority in…
One can’t help but be shocked by the rhetoric used by political leaders in TV programmes. It leaves the impression that all norms of decency, social value and Divine Edicts…
Pakistan’s health sector is in a complete mess and has thus failed to respond to the needs of the people, yet the federal government’s health sector reforms proposed in 2015…
For the past few weeks, we have been seeing and hearing about the horrific persecution of Muslims in the Arakan district of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Fanatic Buddhist monks and regular…
In a major scandal, ignored by both the judiciary and NAB, the last three major corruption references — Assets, Cotecna and SGS cases against former President Asif Ali Zardari have…
Pakistan needs to develop a well-thought-out, cool and calculated response to US President Trump’s Strategy on Afghanistan, which is a vague plan, and cannot be called a strategy. The fact…
Nawaz Sharif has to be appreciated that he has exposed the classes that were once against him and fought against his class. Today, they fight to defend the Nawaz Sharif…
There is a hilarious aspect to the Supreme Court’s judgment on Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification — it all started to find “billions” of corruption money from the political “godfather” and the…
I never saw or met Ghulam Fatima in my whole life, but for me she is a symbol of independence. I heard about her for the first time in 1971…
The Afghan War of Liberation has twice changed its course in a short period of three decades. In 1987, it was the ‘stinger missiles’, which forced the Soviets to withdraw…
The Supreme Court’s judgment that sent Nawaz Sharif home served as a dark moment for the PML-N and a source of salvation for the PTI. However, to an ordinary person,…
The Supreme Court of Pakistan formed the JIT, comprising officers drawn from government institutions for digging political dirt related to their elected Prime Minister. And as the investigations started, the…
The year 2007, was important in London politics. Now London used to give a scene outside the Islamabad Parliament. Pakistani politicians were seen in every cafe. Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz…
The six nuclear explosions that jolted the Chaghai Hills on May 28 and May 30 in 1998 left lasting imprints on contemporary world history. Not only did they set right…
On 23rd June, a traffic sergeant on duty at an intersection in a posh locality in Quetta was run over by a speeding Land Cruiser in broad day light. There…
From time to time, Pakistan has been hit by floods, famine, earthquakes, failed monsoons, locust and human-made disasters like war, and sectarian militancy.Al-Qaeda and all varieties of terrorism that followed…
The SC’s Panama verdict, including the dissenting notes, has fueled political bickering in the country but gave no solution to check corruption. The verdict contains variety of stuff for use…
The land mark judgment has been given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 20th April 2017, which is discrete enough as “not to send wrong signal” so that both,…
Now, it is being said that it was all lawyers’ fault, we had a lot of evidences but these incompetent lawyers got us killed. I am wondering from where the…
General Headquarters (GHQ) unanimously supported General (retd) Raheel Sharif’s joining the military alliance of 39 Muslim countries as its chief after incumbent Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had direct…
The other day while reading irrepressible Arunadhati Roy’s very substantive compilation The Hanging of Afzal Guruand the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament(December 2001), I came across…
Credibility of high powered Central Selection Board — which recommends senior level promotions in civilian bureaucracy — is in tatters after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently referred back dozens of…
While talking to PM Nawaz Sharif, President Trump complemented him with the words “He is a terrific guy” and now uses the same words for the Egyptian Dictator, General Abul…
There is a saying that if the rulers ignore the problems, pains and needs of their people, they are doomed sooner rather than later. The situation in Pakistan seems to…
Is the wheel rotating in opposite direction? Is this nation, whose home has been haunted by an uproar, once again on the brink of change? The people, I mean the…
Tall, strong and shady trees do not grow in thin air, shifting sands or swamps. Our sturdy Bunyan is a local tree which stands majestically in the firm soil through…
The National Accountability Bureau is all set to close two investigations into alleged corruption cases initiated during the Pervez Musharraf regime against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab…
Trump is an interesting personality, frank, outspoken with an impolite mannerism. He now is the President of the United States of America, elected after a tough election campaign where he…
We lost our social cohesion and civil anchorage, in fact, our place in history, when River Hakra, the legendary Saraswati, turned away from us thousands of years ago. It was…
