Imran Khan’s rise in popularity and the impressive turnout at his Lahore and Karachi public meetings is no mean feat and has stunned many. Conspiracy theories abound. Is the establishment and ISI propping up the PTI to achieve some new objective, is a hot topic of debate. While everyone is asking the million dollar question [...]
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 [...]
Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have spent many years in Pakistan’s political wilderness. Despite his platform for change and condemnation of the incessantly corrupt Pakistani political culture, PTI has had very little to show for itself in Pakistan’s political system.
Gaining support by appealing to populist politics is the easy part and has served [...]
Change keyword is the new fad in Pakistan just like iPhone and Facebook. If you are young and in Pakistan and you are on Facebook, you have to show your support to Imran Khan, whether you know what the vote is or not. This fad is going to stay here for a while, until we [...]
It was on the cards and it surprised no one when Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi resigned from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as well as National Assembly memberships.
Despite of the fact that Qureshi has left PPP, he is still a very important person in the Pakistani politics and leaving PPP is not going to [...]
Well more rightly Shah Mehmood Qureshi is about to join his former and original party PML-N. Politics is the power game and with Javed Hashmi riding the solo train and Yousaf Raza Gilani enjoying PPP premiership, PML-N is trying to get its footstep in strong fashion in the Southern Punjab and what better way that [...]
Qureshi Sahib is sounding more and more like some one with the “sour grapes” syndrome. Undoubtedly, as a Foreign Minister he had a considerable clout. He was seen with world leaders and made his efforts to portray the Pakistani image abroad, to the best of his ability. To some extent, he was seen as being [...]
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi – the Pakistani Foreign Minister – was on an official visit to the Kingdom during this past week. During his two-day tour here he met with his Saudi counterpart – Prince Saud Al-Faisal who had invited him to update him on the recent visit of the Indian Prime Minister – Manmohan [...]
When Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Gen Ashfaq Kayani, and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi got off the plane in Washington to conduct what was called the “strategic dialogue” with the US last week, they carried a 56-page shopping list asking for money, arms… and more money.
That has been the norm for US-Pakistan dialogues in the [...]
The present dispensation is making us a laughing stock. There is no coordination among the government ministers, advisors, premier and the president whatsoever. Nobody knows what to say and where to go and what actually is the center of gravity.
President has his own qibla and the premier has his own. The administration is divided, confused [...]
