Right from today on 23rd March 68 years ago, All India Muslim League in it’s Minto Park Lahore meeting passed “Lahore resolution”, which later on shaped as “Pakistan resolution” . Apparently it was the beginning of a journey without any obvious destiny as after the second world war & the demands of the subcontinent masses, [...]
Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan in his speech to Sindh High Court Bar in Karachi a couple of weeks ago asked the lawyers community to forget the May 12 massacre in the heart of Karachi but the million dollar question is this that weather the nation should also forget that terrible day?
It was sheer terrorism under the [...]
At last the newly elected national assembly members will get oath under the amended constitution of 73, but my concern is neither the ongoing confrontation between the top leadership of PPPP nor the eminent confrontation between the parliament & the president house but my bad luck is this that i won’t be seeing the well [...]
Pakistan is burning for the last few years in particular Pakhtoon belt. Not a single day passes with out any bomb blast, suicide attack, rocket firing & hand grenade being blasted or thrown on security forces.
There are many aspects to the recent blood shed in our beloved country but the US attacks on Bajur’s seminary [...]
The people of Baluchistan are keeping a close eye on the meetings between different party leaders in Islamabad regarding formation of a new government & are expecting much more from the new government.
Here people including Baloch nationalists have welcomed Zardari’s statement in which he said that Baluchistan would be given her due rights & [...]
For many observers not too much familiar with Baluchistan the victory of PML Q is a shock but for the locals it was expected. Most of the seats which the PML Q has won are those constituencies where the Sardars are much more powerful & the masses go with Sardars irrespective of the party [...]
Baluchistan has unfortunately the most low turn outs of voters during the last four general elections & there are obvious reasons for this low turn out. This particular part of Pakistan has been through many ups & downs & the common people had suffered the most.
The former dictator & field Marshal Ayoob Khan had stormed [...]
Last ray of hope for the reunion of two factions of JUI(F) vanished on Feb.8 when the premiere of the JUI Maulana Fazulrehman called upon the angry faction to withdraw it’s candidates for the MMA’s elected candidates, to which the angry faction was not willing & thus JUI(F) in Balochistan remain splitted in to two [...]
The people of Balochistan in general & of Quetta in particular had shown strong anti-American protests when their beloved son, Mir Aimal Khan Kassi was persecuted in Virginia USA in November 2002 on charges of killing two & injuring three CIA employees & then rushing back to Pakistan the very next day.
In Pakistan CIA was [...]
It is said that one of the very close colleagues of the late General Mohammad Zia-ul-haq once asked his junior officer about the quietness of people regarding the military take over, the officer could not afford making his boss angry & remained silent to which the mighty General Retired Faiz Ali Chusti said, “the people [...]
