I cannot stop tears welling in my eyes as I just read a news line that governor Punjab Salman Taseer has said that President Asif Ali Zardari will remain head of state until 2018. That clearly means that after 2018 he won’t be here to keep his blessed shadow over our headless necks.
I am dumbstruck [...]
Unfortunately, in Pakistan any common citizen who faces charges and the period from “mulzim” to mujrim” or “baygunah” till the time he is not proven, the person has to go through humiliation, mental and physical tortures, degrading insults moreover his family and relatives suffer and go through the same pains. Now I respectfully ask honorable [...]
Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]
A LAW graduate of the Punjab University on Saturday refused to receive a gold medal from Governor/Chancellor Salman Taseer, registering his protest against the silence of the PPP government over the May 12, 2007, incident in Karachi.
The top position holder of session 2004-07 of LLB programme, Muhammad Shahid, went onto the stage but did not [...]
Laws are made in the light of the constitution of the country and adhere to the majority of the land. Pakistan is 98% Muslim country and all of them are agreed on the point that they take it as a crime if somebody abuse their religion and religious figures.
It is also agreed that there have [...]
I still remember the insults and derogatory remarks hurled by the governor Punjab Salman Taseer on the protesting lawyers in the streets for the restoration of the judiciary. The threats by the Salman Taseer still resonate in my ears and he was on the ardent supporter of Musharraf and then Zardari in their efforts to [...]
If history is any guide, we shouldn’t be expecting any good in the near future from the new alignments of the politicos on the country, which are almost at loggerheads. Within the coalition of PPP led government, the ANP and JUI-F have pulled the daggers out and slinging mud without any pause. ANP is also [...]
The in-tandem attacks in the heart of Pakistan, the Lahore city are yet another reminder that those running the country in Islamabad have either lost all control or have no genuine interest in curbing militancy in the country. This reminder is ringing alarms for quite a time now and now it seems that we have [...]
It is now the mood of optimism that follows the reinstatement of Shahbaz Sharif as the chief minister of Punjab. Everyone now is expecting that now a new, brighter chapter will open in the lives of people in the Punjab province. Especially people are expecting to get back their cheap roti and they are also [...]
