Successive governments had promised to make Pakistan a modern, democratic and progressive Islamic welfare state, according to the vision of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It is, however, ...
Since 2004, the CIA-led drone attacks on Pakistan’s tribal areas have caused huge losses of life and property. Apparently, successive governments have strongly condemned this gross violation of ...
The fate of the 2013 elections till early this year was uncertain. The law and order situation in Balochistan, Karachi and KPK, the Lahore Badami Bagh inferno, threat of terrorism and failure of the ...
One can only understand an issue, in its comprehensiveness, by looking at the whole picture; for parts are merely deceptive. Pakistan’s political leadership after the death of Quaid-i-Azam ...
The call by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee spokesman, Raza Haroon, for an indefinite shutter-down strike in Sindh came like a bombshell. Its most alarming aspect was that trade ...
Had he been a Pakistani citizen, Justice Markandey Katju would have faced Article 6 of the constitution for sedition because what he has written about Pakistan and its Founding Father Quaid-i-Azam ...
The Pakistan National Forum (PNF) organised a series of meetings to discuss the various aspects of parliamentary elections, reportedly, scheduled for March 2013. The forum is represented by all ...
Under normal circumstances, the nation should be looking forward to the next general elections. The Parliament completes its tenure in March 2013, when a caretaker government would take over. Thus, a ...
The Supreme Court judgment in Asghar Khan’s case has raised important questions about a junior army officer obeying or disobeying an unlawful command of his superior officer. A debate over the ...
The Pakistan National Forum’s ‘National Security Special Committee (NSSC)’ held an urgent meeting on October 18, 2012, at Lahore. Its agenda was to review the emerging geopolitical ...
After the fall of Dhaka, Pakistan should have changed its foreign policy. But since Pakistan was dependent on the US/West for its economic and military needs, it did not do so! On June 3, 1949, ...
According to Al-Jazeera, “factory fires in two major cities in Pakistan have killed at least 314 people and injured dozens more, including some who had to leap from windows to escape the ...
Pakistan is fast approaching a situation where internal and external challenges have started threatening its existence. Despite this, the country’s top leaders are least bothered about ...
On August 4, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared the Contempt of Court Act (CoCA) 2012, passed recently by Parliament, as null and void. Though several legal and constitutional experts, including ...
Pakistan emerged on the map of the world as an independent state on August 14, 1974. Just three days before its independence, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah addressed the Constituent Assembly of ...
The confrontation between Pakistani state institutions is unlikely to end soon, which may lead to a critical situation during the month of July. All major organs of the state, namely the executive ...
Pakistan is a black hole for American aid,” said Gary L. Ackerman during a House Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee hearing, recently: “Our tax dollars go in. Our diplomats go in, sometimes. ...
On May 19, the National Security Special Committee (NSSC) of the Pakistan National Forum organised a meeting to discuss the grave internal and external challenges facing the country. A large number ...
As if the prolonged hours of loadshedding and inflation, the deep political divide between PPP and PML-N and the ongoing standoff between the judiciary and the executive, were not enough to cause ...
The PML-N Quaid, Mian Nawaz Sharif, while briefing the media on April 27 in Lahore, declared that the office of Prime Minister has become vacant after the Supreme Court verdict in the contempt case. ...
On Saturday, a grand ceremony was organised in Lahore in the honour Mr Majid Nizami, Editor-in-Chief of Daily Nawa-i-Waqt. It was attended by well known personalities, besides members of the civil ...
The internal and external challenges gathering on Pakistan’s horizon seem ominous. According to the latest press reports “The President continues to take shots at Sharifs” The ...
Recently, a report by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), headed by Senator Raza Rabbani, tasked to compile recommendations for “new terms of engagement” with the US ...
The ongoing energy crisis did not erupt overnight. After the Indus Basin Water Treaty (1960) with India, a formula for the division of the waters of the main rivers - Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, ...
The intra court appeal filed by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani against “the decision of the apex court to frame charges in the contempt case”, has been rejected by the ...
February 2, 2012, will be remembered in the history of the Supreme Court of Pakistan when a seven-member bench, headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, could indicte the country’s Prime Minister, ...
Pakistan is undergoing a strange phenomenon of changing, even retracting, policy statements at the highest level of government, which has on several occasions led the country into embarrassing ...
The year 2011 is behind us. In the New Year, nothing dramatic is expected of the government that could constitute a break in the routine of ruling the country that it has been following. A virtual ...
Since the Abbottabad raid on May 2, 2011, several events have occurred threatening not only Pakistans internal stability, but also its territorial integrity and sovereignty; the tragic incident was ...
Pakistans Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, reportedly, has suspended the chain of command system in order to enable senior officers on the posts to take appropriate action, if Pakistani ...
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