TLP and State on April 19, 2021The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) came into existence when after the murder of Governor Punjab, Salman Taseer, the killer Mumtaz Qadri was judicially hanged in 2016. Within two years of its establishment, the TLP, bagged 2.2 million votes in 2018 elections. It emerged as the fifth largest party in popular vote count. Despite its getting so […]
Indo-Pak links and Kashmir on April 12, 2021In 2018, India and Pakistan restored their links as Prime Minister Imran Khan took the office. They exchanged delegates. It was a backchannel process while both sides saw positive developments so that the region should shed off tension. But in August 2019, the revocation of Article 370 which accorded Kashmir special status, ditched Indo-Pak links […]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on April 4, 2021Pakistan’s history, spanning over 74 years, sees only two names whose personality has left perennial impression on our society, motivating people to speak, to live and to move forward. One of them is the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammd Ali Jinnah who undertook untiring efforts to materialize the dream of a separate homeland for the […]
Unscrupulous Politics on March 29, 2021Yousuf Raza Gilani from Pakistan People’s Party has been elected the opposition leader in the Senate and with it, the ways of PML N and PPP are parted, perhaps for good. PML N was trying to designate Azam Nazeer Tarar for this position but Mr. Zardari threw a spanner in the works, foiling PML N’s […]
Dispersed Opposition and Peace Offer on March 22, 2021These two parties are like chalk and cheese. Their unnatural alliance came into being only to topple the government of Imran khan. Otherwise the politics of PML N and PPP falls poles apart. Nowadays political parties stand for criticism for the sake of criticism. They have no vision or plan to guide the government and […]
PDM-Falling Apart on March 15, 2021During the Chairman Senate elections, the opposition parties have once again come a cropper. Though in majority, they, second time at a trot, have failed to get their chairman elected. Ninety-eight members of the Upper House voted for the elections of the chairman and the deputy chairman. Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani got 48 votes while his […]
Perfidious Politics on March 7, 2021The elections of 48 Senate seats have been concluded. Barring the one, all seats have yielded the expected results. Yousaf Raza Gillani and Hafeez Sheikh vied with each other for the general seat of the Senate form Islamabad. In the tightly fought contest, Yousaf Raza Gillani, the ex-boss of Hafeez Sheikh (Hafeez Sheikh has worked […]
Indo-Pak Links and Hafeez Sheikh on February 28, 2021Pakistan and India are neighboring states. Common saying goes that we can change our relatives but not our neighbors. Therefore, Pakistan has been trying to live with its neighbors peacefully. But unfortunately, our neighbor, India which is hostile to us, has policy to plague us. After years of tension between both the countries on the […]
Senate elections and political failure on February 21, 2021Till the publication of these lines, the Supreme Court of Pakistan may have decided if the Senate elections are to be conducted through open ballot or secret ballot. Basically this issue should be settled by politicians through mutual agreement but unfortunately it was taken to the SC. Now all politicians resort to point scoring, hurling […]
Indian Conspiracies and the Role of Pak Army on February 15, 2021Pakistan’s neighboring country, India tries, on one hand, to bring home to the world that it is epitome of secularism; while on the other hand; it violates international rules not only on global level but also on local level. It ceaselessly remains busy in hatching up some or other conspiracy against Pakistan. India goes on […]