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The recent call by some politicians, retired generals and columnists for the military to step in and take charge of the country is absurd. These handful goons never allowed democracy to flourish and take roots for some vested interests. These people who are calling for this kind of change have...

Malik Ishaq was accused of being the key planner of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team. His associate accused namely, Javed Anwar, Abdullah and Ubaidur Rehman had been arrested from Shahdara. It was claimed that the men had confessed to their involvement in the cricket team attack. Some...

Response It was Gen Ziaul Haq who had started making the Pakistan Army a true Islamic Jehadi Force when he assumed the office of the Army Chief in 1976. This concept was developed further when he became Chief Martial Law Administrator and the President of Pakistan after military coup of July...

The ugly face of religious intolerance showed its true colours once again in PNS Mehran and CID building in Peshawar and Hangoo. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility, which comes as no surprise as almost all the terror attacks carried out in Pakistan can be attributed...

PTI is rightly called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Idiots. They know it very well that they have no bases or political roots in Pakistan. All they do is either use their idiotic tongue or now, throw stuff at other people. I wish they had done the same when they used to ride on Musharraf’s lap and...

During his recent visit to Karachi, PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif was talking to media persons after visiting the Quaid’s mausoleum. He said that Pakistan must not take aid from other countries (especially the US) as after taking aid from countries, Pakistan has to follow their policies. Instead...

Geo is a goon of black mailers and unfortunately following Geo some other channels are also trying to adopt the same style. Geo News TV is a leader in sensationalism and lopsided reporting in Pakistan, and that most other TV channels uncritically imitate Geo TV’s unethical and unprofessional...

No legislation prevents the president from holding the office of the president and that of the party head and the issue is moral, rather than constitutional and this is the reason why a full bench of Lahore High Court had not directed President Asif Ali Zardari to leave the office and only...

Imran Khan has been an inconsistent and immature politician ever since he started his political career. He thinks that he would bring a change in Pakistan by winning the upcoming elections but this is just what he thinks because the people do not trust him completely. They have questions in mind...

It is time that the army establishment must change its mindset if it really wants to make Pakistan a prosperous, welfare state and wants to gain the trust of civilians, which has been badly shaken after the Osama Bin Laden killing operation. Osama was responsible for killing around 35,000...

Jamat-e-Islami was stunned and shocked and angry when during and after the Peshawar sit-in against the drone attacks by NATO forces, the Imran Khan took all the credit and got himself glorified in the media. There was not a mention of Jamat-e-Islami and they didn’t like it at all, and as...

The way Southern Punjab has been ignored for the last sixty years makes it plausible for the segments of society to demand a new province. With that demand echoing from other parts of country like Hazara and even from the Bahawalpur, there needs to be a serious debate as what is actually legit...

Difficult economic decisions cannot be taken by the government alone. It needs the support of the major political parties because these decisions require economic and administrative restructuring. Unfortunately, the opposition parties and one of the PPP partner parties, the MQM, do not want any...

I am deeply saddened by this tragedy, but I am also disgusted by those who continue to hide their own blasphemous faces behind the blasphemy laws, who use violence to mask their own cowardice. I am disgusted that Salman Taseer was one of only a few brave enough to stand up to the religiously...

Zardari Cemented Pak-China Relations: It is reported when President Asif Ali Zardari appeared at a Pakistan-China renewable energy forum in Shanghai on July 10 this year; he rekindled a vision of his assassinated wife - former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto – who had envisaged gas...

Sehbai even says that CM Balochistan was asked if he is being pressurized by Zardari, only to have the CM reply that the answer is no! Why does Sehbai report the CM’s reply “as an afterthought”? Is it because he is trying to influence readers not to believe the CM’s own word? Shaheen Sehbai may...

Pakistan’s judiciary and the media seem critical of the present government; the media wants to create its own hegemony and the judiciary wants to maintain and sustain its legitimacy over and above parliament. The government has to accommodate these two and accept their legitimacy. If not...

When the senior Bhutto, the greatest leader ever produced by Pakistan was alive, even the government newspaper, The Pakistan Times used to write against him. It has been the tradition of the media that it has always wrote against the Pakistan People’s Party and its leadership. Our media...

TTP has promised more attacks on security and government officials. Such grim announcements and brutal massacres should not come as a surprise as the past week has demonstrated just how determined the militants are to step up their game now that the military’s attention has been diverted...

Issue of donor fatigue is also very important. To me, the first and foremost reason of donor fatigue is global economic crisis. All governments in the world, specially the rich ones, are undergoing a belt-tightening phase and persuading them to donate will be harder than usual. Secondly, the...