It is said contempt proceeding will boost the popularity of the PPP and Gilani’s crime is nothing compared to what happened on Nov. 3 and May 12. State Institutions are jealously and possessively, orbiting on their axis, like stellar bodies in our solar system, without regard to the more important movement that keeps them moving [...]
During the PNA’s movement against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1977, an American diplomat’s phone call was intercepted in which he reportedly said: “The party is over”.
Notwithstanding the recent media hype about some imminent change ostensibly emanating from the memo and the NRO cases, does, after all not have the requisite sting to give immediate results. [...]
On 25th December, the nation celebrates the 135th Birth anniversary of Quid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Jinnah’s vision of Pakistan was, “There is no doubt that the future of our state will and must greatly depend upon the type of education and way in which we bring up our children as the future servants of Pakistan…What [...]
For Mr. Zardari it is a time of critical developments. Various factors in the outside world are challenging him strongly, and it seems he will have difficulty in maintaining his objective in whatever he may try to do. He will feel unusually discouraged at this time, and his vitality is at a low point. He [...]
On October 10, 2011, The Financial Times carried an article, titled “Time to take on Pakistan’s jihadist spies”, by Mansoor Ijaz, a well-connected American businessman of Pakistani origin, that was to create a great controversy.
Ijaz, known for his dubious character and bias against Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, claimed in the article that, on May 9, [...]
After completing the review of America’s ongoing ‘war on terror’ and related situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama addressed the nation from West Point, New York, on December 1, 2009, to announce: “.. as Commander-in-Chief, I have determined to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will [...]
Mian Shahbaz Shareef was high on pitch and the rhetoric,less on substance or road map. It seems PMLN has unlearned the art of opposition.It needs to go back to the primer. The first lesson being connecting and forming an alliance with people and parties opposed to the incumbent Zardari led PPP-Coalition Government.
With Shahbaz Sharif kind [...]
As the elections of the half of the members of Senate, scheduled for March 2012, are drawing close, the PML (N) is getting uneasy.
If no spanner is thrown in these elections, the PPP is set to increase its presence in the Senate and dominate it at least till the spring of 2016 when again half [...]
That’s why Nehru is quoted to have said, “ Jinnah is more intelligent than 110 Gandhi’s and 200 Abulkalams”. Master Tara Singh said “ Had Jinnah been a Sikh, he would have been worshiped by Sikh followers”
As a result of the on-going discourse and proceedings in the Supreme Court on the Karachi crisis, there has emerged a general consensus that the various mafias involved in extortion (bhatta-taking), kidnapping for ransom, drug peddling, arms proliferation, land grabbing and target-killings are either part and parcel of different political, ethnic and sectarian parties or [...]
