After the settlement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary and the issue of the Punjab government, the real issues are now in the limelight and that is good for the Pakistan. The restive situation in the Balochistan and the surrender of the government in Swat and Bajaur to the Taliban are the real issues in [...]
This video this week from Pakistan showing the flogging of a young woman by extreme islamists in the Western territories of Pakistan has enraged the mainstream public there, as it well should. The images, which have been broadcast repeatedly by private television news networks in Pakistan, have caused outrage [...]
Despair, grief, misery…this is what see around me…
Cheif justice, Long march, Nawaz dismissal…when that finishes a bomb explosion…then another…then an outrages video…that boils my blood everytime I see it…and then…another suicide explosion…then another…
Is this what our people worked, struggled, strived…& then sacrificed for?
Is this what we died for…?
When our people were massacred…like cattle…on the trains…on [...]
Beginning with the 3rd March attack on the SriLankan team that brought yet another embarrassment to the nation ,the month of March had a lot to offer.The undemocratic step of imposing section 144 to curb the Long march proved to be futile as the determined lawyers,the champions of human rights and the stalwarts of democracy [...]
US ignorance regarding the ground realities of Pakistan is a source of major threat to Pakistan, both in terms of its internal dynamics and external security concerns. Taking the internal dynamics first, there were the crude US interventions during the nation’s reassertion of its self in the context of the long march and the demand [...]
Its first time Chief Justice is going to office when there is no iftikhar_ch_01military rule in this country ,and thus different situations have different approaches.
Chief Justice surely would have this point in mind but most of us who have seen Judicial activism before March,9,07 and after 20 July 07 tend to forget it.
There are great [...]
Ex De facto chief justice of Pakistan, Abdul Hameed Dogar is made up of the same skin of which Zardari is hatched. Abdul Hameed Dogar belongs to that old school of people in Pakistan who are refusing to accept the change. They are filling in the footsteps of their predecessors while trying to maintain the [...]
By the evening of 15 March 2009, the Government had realized that it had lost the battle and had no option other than to concede the demand of the lawyers, the civil society and the opposition parties that the judiciary of 2 November 2007, with Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice, be restored through [...]
March has been the month of resolutions and change for the Pakistanis. This is the month of revolutions of all colors, red or velvet. On 23rd March, 1940, All India Muslim League held its annual session at Minto Park, Lahore and passed the historical Pakistan resolution.
The Pakistan Resolution stated: “No constitutional plan would be workable [...]
