The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is currently in the midst of both a grave leadership and administrative crisis. Yet it had not always been this way. For the party is borne of a glorious past. And it is one that took shape back on November 30, 1967 at Dr Mubashir Hassan’s Lahore residence. He was […]
Nawaz returns to ‘launch movement for rule of law’
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Lahore Sunday morning with his daughter Maryam Nawaz. On Dec 5, the two had left for London to see Kulsoom Nawaz, the former prime minister’s wife who has been undergoing treatment for cancer in the British capital for some time. They arrived at the Lahore airport […]
NAB court records testimony of five witnesses against Dar today
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court will record today (Monday) the testimony of five prosecution witnesses against Senator Ishaq Dar, who is facing a corruption reference pertaining to having assets beyond know sources of income. The testimony will be recorded by accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir in presence of National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) prosecutors and Dar’s lawyers. […]
Identifying exploiters and the exploited
On a national level, there are two classes in any given society: the bourgeois and the proletariat, or the peasantry in the rural agrarian economies. The bourgeois are generally privileged and educated people, while the peasantry is uncivilised and illiterate. But who do the socialists, who tend to look at social issues from structural angle, […]
Parliament should formulate all policies: Achakzai
SWAT: The constitution is not only a shred of the paper a social contract between the federation and federating units and citizens and the state. Under the constitution, an elected parliament should have monopoly over formulating policies of the federation, said Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chairman, said on Sunday. He was […]
Quetta bleeds again
Yet another terror attack struck the capital of Balochistan on Sunday afternoon. At least nine people lost their lives while 30 received injuries in a suicide attack on the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church. Last year, Easter celebrations had been marred by a deadly attack at Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park. The Christian community has been targeted yet […]
Misplaced priorities
Islamabad High Court (IHC) has warned the federal government that the Prime Minister and federal ministers may have to face contempt of court proceedings if the court’s order about taking anti-blasphemy measures online is not implemented. IHC Chief Justice Shaukat Aziz Sidiqqui made these remarks on Friday as the government failed to submit a compliance […]
Fearless drug trade
As many as 13 employees of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have been fired after they were found involved in a heroin smuggling case in May this year. The London bound flight had been inspected as per schedule and was cleared only to land at Heathrow airport, where security officials found 20 kilograms of heroin […]
Half-truths about Jinnah
I apologise to the readers for bombarding them with articles on Jinnah in recent weeks but this is because there is another effort underway to distort whatever remains of the memory of our founding father. As long as one can write, one will attempt to counter the lies and myths being created about Jinnah. It […]
A peek into the patriarchal media
Disclosures that made high profile dignitaries in politics and media uncomfortable, occupied a tangible space in the news in 2017. The media (that is seen by the sufferers as their voice against sexual harassment of women is largely, with exceptions aside) itself is a captive to hegemonic masculinity. This is evident by the under-representation of […]