If you ask me then after casting my vote on 18th February, I thought that now the things will become rosy and hopeful in a jiffy and the change would be swift and drastic, and the mandate would blossom in split time.
More than one month has passed. President Musharraf is still there on the throne [...]
Well, I am all for the restoration and reinstatement of the deposed judges and I am a very ardent supporter of the free judiciary, but I would like to divert the attention of the newly elected and oath-ed members that the fire of stomach doesn’t get satiated with the judiciary, rather it needs roti and [...]
Pakistan is knocking on the door of democracy, while the forces of status quo are trying desperately to pull it back. The elections which occurred on 18th February have ushered a a new dawn heralding a richly hoped transformation repudiating the massively skewed previous government of PML-Q under the stern eye of General (r) Pervez [...]
Pakistanis are seething with anger and they are asking each other as who is there enemy and who is killing their children and their families, and who is blowing himself up without discrimination in the markets and the offices of this country?
Whether these are the agents of International powers who want to see Pakistan unstable [...]
Poverty is the worst of the evils. It could make a human animal, and it could devastate a society. While our rulers and leaders haggle over the intricacies of power games, people in Pakistan are burying their children alive, because they cannot feed them or provide them any medical facilities or anything else.
In Mamoo Kanjan, [...]
Since the independence of Pakistan, many elections were held, some under military coups and some under the rule of law. The voters turn out remained below 30% of the total registered voters except the turnout was above 40% in 2002 elections as mentioned by the Musharaf regime.
People don’t go to the poling stations for many [...]
When would we start learning lessons from the mistakes of others? Before we started fighting terrorism in our country, we have had burning and glaring examples of US fighting the same kind of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s exactly not the ditto copy of what we are facing in our tribal region and in [...]
His name is Saif Ullah. Mr. Saif Ullah sells fruits or vegetables on a cart near a bus stop. He has four children, two of them are school going in small classes. His reply to some questions as below:
‘I live in a rented accommodation consisting only one room and a very small shed. The rent [...]
