I am no fan of Imran Khan at all. I think he is too bland, immature, and superficial to be a serious candidate for any political portfolio, let alone leading a party. You may call it a stroke of luck or some manoeuvrings by the smart agencies of Pakistan, Imran is a popular leader now.
But [...]
Has the memogate scandal come to its logical conclusion, or has it fallen victim to euthanasia.
Notwithstanding any last minute gasps, Memogate is about to expire. The key protagonists - army, opposition and judiciary - have extracted their pound of flesh and decided to apply closure.( Najam Sethi -TFT CURRENT ISSUE| January [...]
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 [...]
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.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry, on 18th January 2012 ordered the release of seized assets of the Sharif brothers by dismissing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s appeal and upholding the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC). During the hearing, the court held that [...]
Disappointment and dejection was palpable among various TV talk show anchors and their armchair analysts when they came to learn that the Apex Court didn’t ironed out Prime Minister and threw him out of the court, or that there was no storming of the court, and things remained cooler and calmer.
Many anchors were beating the [...]
After listening to the news that Ex-President Pervez Musharraf is retuning back home during January 2012; it looks as ‘chicken is coming back home to roost’— but is that the case?
Musharraf may be maligned for many things being a dictator but there is no denial that present Pak government was installed under US directive by [...]
Irshad Salim – a consultant, journalist/writer and a motivational speaker, who is an American national of Pakistani origin living in New York and currently visiting Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on a professional consultancy assignment with a local contractor gave an informal talk to Pakistani expats, and said he still loves Pakistan, calling himself a “stranded [...]
“My greatest challenge has been to alter the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
Muhammad Younas
(Founder of Grameen Bank)
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely right. Ironically, the PML-N led by the Sharif brothers is in [...]
Habib Jalib was a great Urdu-speaking revolutionary poet based in Karachi and affiliated with Imroz Karachi. He was a staunch democrat and his verses are an asset for the democratic and depressed forces. He must be turning violently in his grave, when Shahbaz Sharif recites his verses in the public meeting and tries to prove [...]
