ThinkFest caters to citizens’ need to engage with ideas on January 16, 2019As Aqil Shah opened Day 1 of Lahore’s ThinkFest with a bang, Dr Ayesha Jalal’s talk with Raza Rumi was an equally dazzling start to Day 2. Ayesha Jalal is one of the most respected academics from Pakistan and globally acclaimed for her work on South Asian history. Raza Rumi discussed the ban on Nandita […]
‘Kargil operation was planned to dethrone Nawaz Sharif’ on May 30, 2018LAHORE: One of Pakistan’s top journalists Suhail Warraich on Tuesday said that according to his assessment, Kargil operation had been planned to dethrone the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. While speaking at the book launch of senior journalist Nasim Zehra’s ‘From Kargil to the Coup – Events that shook Pakistan’ at a local hotel, Suhail […]
The FATA merger: pros and cons on May 30, 2018Both the National Assembly and the Senate have finally passed the FATA Reforms Bill, and as soon as the President signs it, FATA will be merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This is a welcome move for there should never be two different systems of governance or justice in a country. The extension of the Pakistani […]
‘Fired for political views’, Ammar Ali Jan to take Punjab University to court on April 15, 2018Prominent academic and youth activist Ammar Ali Jan on Friday announced in a Facebook post that he had been told by the Director of Punjab University’s (PU) Sociology department to “‘disengage’ from teaching or coming to campus. In other words, I HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM PU!” Ammar stated that he was teaching at the PU […]
‘Fired for political views’, Ammar Ali Jan to take PU to court on April 14, 2018LAHORE: Prominent academic and youth activist Ammar Ali Jan on Friday announced in a Facebook post that he had been told by the Director of Punjab University’s(PU) Sociology department to “’disengage’ from teaching or coming to campus. In other words, I HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM PU!” Ammar stated that he was teaching at the PU […]
How it culminated into the April 4 tragedy on April 3, 2018Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was arguably the most gifted politician Pakistan has ever had. Born to a sindhi Arain family on January 5, 1928, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a stubborn Capricorn who would get his way no matter what it took. In the end, it took way too much. Bhutto’s early years were spent in Bombay […]
Pakistani media channel involved in blasphemy campaign against govt called out by ISI on March 19, 2018Pakistani media channel 92 News has been alleged of supporting the Faizabad sit-in – which had ended with the resignation of the federal law minister of the country last November – by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The sit-in had been organised by a religious-political outfit Tehreek-e-Labbayk Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR), led by Maulvi Khadim […]
‘Will present Raza Khan by February 7’ on January 22, 2018LAHORE: Raza Mehmood Khan’s case on Monday took a positive turn as Deputy Attorney General Javed Kasuri assured that the missing peace activist will be presented before the court on next hearing, reported Daily Times. During the proceedings, Advocate General told Justice Malik Shahzad that Raza Khan’s whereabouts still remained unknown, upon which the judge […]
‘My son’s crime is that he feels the pain of others’ on January 7, 2018LAHORE: There was a grim silence in the hall as Mehmood Hayat Khan, the father of missing peace activist Raza Mehmood Khan, walked to the stage. As he started speaking in a dejected, yet firm, tone, at a citizens’ seminar at South Asia Media Centre on Saturday, many among the listeners were reminded of the […]
‘My son’s crime is that he feels the pain of others’ on January 6, 2018There was a grim silence in the hall as Mehmood Hayat Khan, father of missing peace activist Raza Mehmood Khan, walked to the stage with eyes of a small crowd of scholars, activists and students gathered at South Asia Media Centre fixed at him. As he started to speak in his dejected, yet firm, voice, […]