There has never been the time that military in Pakistan ever came in power at its own for the heck of it. It was always there on the demand of public and the politicians of the time; when they felt that a group in power has crossed all the limits of their corruption and nepotism. [...]
The narrative and counter narrative about Ex-Adiala eleven is turning rather mysterious. They certainly were not the members of a squad that had won some sports world cup for Pakistan They were hardened terrorists playing ‘catch me if you can’ with our judicial system.’ They were involved in high profile terrorist act like attacks on [...]
Memogate issue is dead but it may be repeated again in some other shape as has been happening before in the checkered history of Pakistan. Some cases are not decided in the courts but the history notifies their judgments; as has been in the case of Mehran Bank Scandal of 1996. In the pages of [...]
Cheikh Justice must be crying in anger as the plane of Husain Haqqani, the erstwhile ambassador and hero of Pakistan sour into air as a free man and went abroad to once again illuminate the good name of the country. Kudos to the President and Prime Minister for bringing the lad home, putting him through [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
If you want to do politics in Pakistan, you have to toe the line of ISI and the establishment otherwise you would never be able to survive let alone succeed. That was so true in last decade and before too. And whenever you stop toeing that line, you either get maligned so much that you [...]
Following list is from the Mehran Bank case file which is the part of Asghar Khan petition in the Supreme Court. This list of the beneficiaries of Mehran Bank hasn’t been proved in any court of law yet, but allegedly this is very close to what was distributed by the ISI.
Islamic Republic of Pakistan is full of dramas; never ending chain of events get unfold without any halt. The frequency of events is so mind boggling that people sometimes lost track of what’s happening where and in this mumbo jumbo, media thrives.
As the memogate is loosing steam, mehrangate is ready to rock the Pakistan. The [...]
Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was abducted, kept in illegal custody, brutalized and eventual tortured to death. Some of us protested in outrage and screamed murder and suspected some agency’s hands in this killing, too. Our strong united demands forced formation of an inquiry commission. The commission has published its report without assigning guilt [...]
