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 [...]
I don’t subscribe to the notions that our military establishment has learned its lessons and all of a sudden have become pro-democracy and have started abhorring the dictatorship, and will never stage any sort of coup ever in the future. That is so naive and so preposterous.
I am sure the apatite for ruling the country [...]
Rehman Malik tried to implicate the leadership of PML-N and implied that Nawaz Sharif was behind the memogate conspiracy, and Nawaz Sharif paid Mansoor Ijaz to create fissures and confrontation between the military establishment and PPP government.
Military establishment refused to accept this excuse from Rehman Malik and demanded the head of the Husain Haqqani which [...]
Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani and ISI chief Shuja Pasha have given explicit warnings in words through ISPR to the government to behave, and they have also warned Gilani-Zardari duo with their action of changing the commander of the dreaded Triple One brigade.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani after holding a one-on-one meeting with [...]
