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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I know many of my friends who are an ardent supporters of Imran Khan and his PTI, but they also become frustrated and angry and doubtful over the statements and the actions of their chief star.
It is true that Imran Khan sometimes frustrates even his own supporters. For instance, many of his supporters are wondering [...]
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 [...]
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaafs miraculous insurgency reminds me of the sudden rising of Islami Jumhori Ittehad (IJI) with 9 stars in the early nineties. Nation was crazy for the IJI and that political alliance swept the country thunderously from one corner to the other. Later we learned that ISI was the mastermind, executor, fundraiser, and custodian of [...]
US-led Northern Distribution Network (NDN) transiting provisions to coalition forces in Afghanistan comprises of 70% of the NATO supply, while Pakistani routes provide only 30% of them, and as the blockage of NATO supply lines continues in Pakistan, US has finally agreed to a total overhaul in Pakistan and their talks with the Pakistani establishment [...]
Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali was elected to the National Assembly from Kasur in 1994. In 2004, he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the National Government led by the PPP from 1993 to 1996. He has now joined Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) of Imran Khan.
Makhdoom [...]
