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 [...]
Zakir has been a chef for the last 33 years and during most of his life he has serviced the kitchen of Nawaz Sharif in Model Town, Raiwind Farm, and in Prime Minister House Islamabad. He left the job on health grounds last year and is living a quiet life in Lahore, but he never [...]
I am not huge fan of Nawaz Sharif but despite of my reservations about him I have to be fair and give credit to him for sticking to his principled stance of cutting the role of army and its affiliated agencies to their actual size and making their budget accountable and audited.
He seems to be [...]
Pakistan has always been ruled by the establishment after the death of the Quaid-e-Azam. After ruling for nine long years, the establishment was at its lowest ebb in the 2008. It had lost the public support, so much so that the military officers stopped wearing uniforms in the public.
Even religious parties were not happy with [...]
One thing which is quite refreshing is that nation-wide there is a consensus that NATO attack on Salala was a high-handedness of worst degree, and America has done an evil thing here and everybody in Pakistan is angry and very alarmed that US has even never apologized and Obama just showed his regret after eight [...]
I still remember those photographs of late Benazir Bhutto’s late mother Nusrat Bhutto with president Ford of United States dancing on stage. I still remember those pamphlets during early nineties exposing the nightclub dancer from Iran. From where all that stuff appeared? None other than Husain Haqqani, the then media manager of Nawaz Sharif produced [...]
Day by day; this news in the Media is becoming clearer that President, Asif Ali Zardari had the knowledge of raid on CIA compound of OBL at Abbotabad. From the operation timings point of view; it may be that he knew it vaguely but for sure President Asif Ali Zardari knew about the OBL fiasco [...]
Imran Khan’s biggest achievement which is really commendable in its very essence is the formation of cancer hospital in Lahore. But did he do it alone? His efforts and initiative and drive was there all the time, but was it a solo flight as he always claims?
No, many thousands people contributed to that great cause [...]
Pragmatism and practicality is not something to come by easily in our blessed land. In the impregnable foundation of this Islamic republic, the most available fabric is of rhetoric and claims and mere chat. When it comes to implementation, we budge and become horrified.
These days the buzzword is change and everybody is talking tirelessly for [...]
A nuclear bombshell has dropped in the midst of Pakistani politics and its time for PML-N to part with the principled politics and reach out to the establishment in this dire times and assure them of their support, as the intentions of the PPP has been exposed in broad day light by the infamous Mike [...]
