If you have to gauge the plight of Pakistan, see its railway. Its littered with mismanagement, nepotism, corruption, high-handedness, apathetic leaders, and rampant ignorance.
Asif Ali Zardari gave Railway on contract to ANP’s Bilour, and Bilour looted the railway to his heart’s content. He recruited thousands of people from his constituency without any process or merit. [...]
In recent years, due to the judicial activism of the chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chuadhry, the top court in Pakistan has acquired a central place on the national horizon which cannot be missed. The Supreme Court looms over our political landscape like a giant, and perhaps immovable object.
But sadly enough, this judicial activism and the [...]
It seems that the days of political peace have at last ended in the country and as the main opposition party PMLN decides to come on the roads and starts attacking the government, things have started boiling everywhere.
President Zardari’s investment in MQM, ANP, and PMLQ is now being tested. For now, MQM and PMLQ are [...]
The present Supreme Court has been insulted so many times that now I wonder that the word insult-of-judiciary possesses any merit. On daily basis, the government either out-rightly refuses to carry out the orders of the Apex court, or they just use the delaying tactics to tease the courts.
So this daily exercise of insulting the [...]
War is gruesome regardless of time and place. Civilians are the most suffered ones. There is one thing which is called as collateral damage and then there is another thing which is systematic use of violence, torture and power to subjugate the people.
The United Nations says torture is practiced systematically in some Afghan [...]
For the last many years, we have been suffering by the hands of Rajas and Qamars and Gilanis and living lives like a stone age species. Load shedding has choked the life in Pakistan. There is no business and hence no jobs, and the private sector has gone dead.
People have lost their jobs and business [...]
When Hamid Karzai landed in New Delhi, India was expecting from him some real and bitter Pakistan bashing but to their horror Karzai called Pakistan his twin brother. That also amazed Pakistanis, because Afghan officials were blaming Pakistan and its ISI for the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, after US-Pakistan tension started over Haqqani Network.
If somebody [...]
A special corps commander’s conference held under the chair of Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to discuss the country’s security has sent the clear message and some shivers to the Washington. GHQ has also ordered the trembling political leadership of Pakistan to take [...]
I don’t think that Hina Rabbani Khar was made the foreign minister to reveal the charms of Pakistan on the outside world. For that purpose, Zardari could have appointed Asma Arbab Alamgir or Kashmala Tariq or any chick from their own party, who are more charming and cute than Hina. Hina is surely not a [...]
Yes, Mr Justice, you are not a holy cow, and neither are your aloof and respectable companions. Justice is dignified and their custodians too, but they are not the untouchables at all. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry needs to earn his restoration fast now. His retirement date is fast approaching and fingers [...]
