NAWAIWAQT GROUP

    
    
Our Columnist
Dr Ijaz Ahsan

Dr Ijaz Ahsan


A new Pakistan

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | May 22, 2013

The most remarkable elections in Pakistan’s history have just concluded. Under the threat of violence and despite the use of bombs and guns, the people refused to be intimated, so strong was ...

Democracy is the best revenge

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | May 15, 2013

Our outgoing rulers were very fond of asserting that democracy was the best revenge. However, they forgot that the revenge can be taken not only by their party against dictators or assassins, but ...

Pervez Musharraf’s troubles

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | April 16, 2013

General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has returned from his self-imposed exile against the advice of many people. He plans to contest the upcoming elections. Perhaps, he’d be able to win them - from ...

Go after the terrorists!

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | December 28, 2012

In his article, entitled “Crimson tide”, Fahd Husain has very rightly described the river of blood flowing in Pakistan for the several years. The insurgents have killed 40,000 innocent ...

The PM’s election

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | June 26, 2012

As soon as the ousted Prime Minister’s back was turned, the Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) conducted raids to arrest both Musa Gilani and Makhdoom Shahabuddin, in connection with the ephedrine ...

A steel jungle

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | January 20, 2012

One had heard cities being described as concrete jungles. However, a jungle of steel is slowly growing before our eyes in our city, and spreading its tentacles far and wide. Lahore has a canal that ...

The Imran phenomenon

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | December 30, 2011

Not since the rise of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the late 1960s has the country seen a phenomenon like Imran Khan. It, maybe, smaller in scale, yet it is a phenomenon, nevertheless. At that time, the ...

Need for the Leagues to unite

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | November 14, 2010

Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali has recently met Mian Nawaz Sharif in an effort to persuade the latter to get his party, the PML-N, to join the Mutahida Muslim League. The Muslim League has nearly ...

Doings of the police

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | March 12, 2010

A DSP was suspended and five other policemen were arrested the other day after a video showing a police officer publicly beating suspects with a flat leather strap usually called chhittar, as the ...

Ghost schools

By: Dr Ijaz Ahsan | November 28, 2008

A letter to an editor shows the state of affairs in school education and makes very depressing reading. The letter reads as follows: "In our village Bootlianwali, Tehsil Minchinabad, District ...

NAWAIWAQT GROUP