Pakistani cricket legend and opposition politician Imran Khan predicted that his party will sweep the next national elections and he will become the country’s next prime minister.
The 59-year-old cricketer entered politics 15 years ago when he founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and struggled to translate his sporting fame into votes. But his political fortunes changed in [...]
When we do the tawaf around the Kaaba, during the pilgrimage or the Umrah, or even as a sunnah, we always start and finish at the eastern corner of the Kaaba where the Black Stone is placed. It is recommended to kiss the Black Stone or touch it at the beginning and as we start [...]
A fresh election is the only way to prevent a coup that no one wants. Pakistan’s first coup was led by a civilian. When the bureaucrat-turned-Governor General Ghulam Mohammad arbitrarily & capriciously and illogically dismissed Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin on April 17, 1953 he was a little apprehensive about intervention by Queen Elizabeth II of [...]
Between Oxbridge and partridge, Imran Khan could have lived happily ever after, milking the first and shooting the second, a Lord of Swing wafting on privileges due to a legitimate national hero who brought home the World Cup in 1992. He could have taken the soft route to power. Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq invited him to [...]
War against corruption remains an integral and vital cog of the PTI drive for change. What is grotesque and monstrous is the manner in which some of the major political players and their hired lieutenants are trying to trivialise this mother of all evils. Even the most corrupt of them have come out brazenly and [...]
Barley:
Good in fever, while use in a soup form.
Dates:
The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said that a house without dates has no food. It should also be eaten at the time of childbirth.
Figs:
It is a fruit from paradise and a cure for piles.
Grapes:
The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) was very fond of grapes - it [...]
How desperately we need a change, all of us know. But how to bring it? Who will bring it?
I may be considered psychotic if I suggest ‘miracle.’ But why not?
I know nothing novel and original is left to be said about ‘how to bring change?’ Some of you may be panicked to see the old [...]
It is the easiest thing to criticize and condemn, but we want to make it very clear that a planned and designed incident cannot undermine our country, neither its army and nor its intelligence agencies. We all standby our country and salute our forces who have a history of long sacrifices and have protected our [...]
