Sorry, no admission!Sir, this is to inform you that today I happened to see one of clients-Saleem Ahmed who is detained in Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore. Saleem Ahmed’s mercy petition by virtue of Article 45 of the Constituti...
Misconduct at universitiesAfter the leaks of the NTS paper answer keys, another incident has taken place. Entry tests for the Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering Sciences and Technology Nawabshah were conducted on 19 Septem...
Gwadar needs waterSir: It seems that everyone in Pakistan has their hopes set on Gwadar. Everyone thinks that the Gwadar deep water port and CPEC will be able to save Pakistan from economic ruin. While that would be ni...
Kashmiris are the real stakeholdersOn October 23 this year the Indian government appointed Dineshwar Sharma, who was Director Intelligence Bureau, as an interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir. His appointment was immediately rejected by...
The Army speaks out, better get the messageThe Pakistan Army’s spokesman was almost forced by the developing situation to speak out on key security and political matters on national TV channels. What the ISPR director general said on Wednesday...
Arms licensesSir: Suspension of licenses for automatic weapons with a provision for being exchanged for semi-automatic weapons or being paid for with money is not safe in any way. World War I and II were both most...
Missing womenSir: Recently, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced some disturbing news. The news was that at least 12.1 million women are missing from the electoral roles. This is a shocking revelati...
Corporal punishmentSir: According to an Islamabad based NGO for the protection of the rights of the child 35,000 students in Pakistan quit school because they want to escape corporal punishment. On the other hand, the N...
Denigrating FaizThe third Faiz International Festival 2017 concluded recently in Lahore. By all accounts it was a roaring success attended, in all, by several hundred thousand people over two days. Every session was...
Cowardly Nawaz and democracyOf all the leaders that Pakistan has, Nawaz Sharif is the most cowardly. Since he was deposed up until now — he shouts of ‘hidden hands’ that only he can seemingly see. Their goal, he cries, it to der...
The mob, mobocrats and mobocracyI have been watching with utter dismay and disbelief that a nuclear power like Pakistan is so completely helpless and powerless in clearing its capital of a bellicose mob, hell-bent on challenging the...
Time to break the siege of IslamabadSit-in by extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik continues in Islamabad at Faizabad Interchange, resulting in disturbance of life in the city. The authorities have been unable to act against the protesting...