Dr Mohammad Ismail Khan

The political theatre in Pakistan has been heating up at a time when the sizzling summer heat has been subsiding. It is getting tougher for all the major political players and their parties. The man on horseback is giving sleepless nights to some of them while others are suffering due to their fattened egos. The […]

In recent local government elections, heads were broken instead of being counted for constituting the third tier of democracy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The people of the province took a keen interest in the local government elections because most of their problems are local. Members of the provincial and central legislatures are least bothered about the […]

There was relative calm for a few weeks. This let up in terrorist incidents made us believe that we had overcome the menace of terrorism. The leadership, both khakis and civvies, were over the moon for bringing back some semblance of normalcy to the war-torn land. However, all this was merely a lull before the […]

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a few days back, briefed senators about the progress made so far in tackling terrorism. However, the senators asked for more effective steps and expressed their dissatisfaction with the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP). NAP, now a faded memory, was adopted by the political leadership and fully […]

When our cricket team was seen losing match after match against Bangladesh, the wrath of the whole nation was directed against the players and management of the cricket team. From electronic to social media, the people were venting their anger, aroused by the dismal performance of our cricket team in the series against Bangladesh. Our […]

Recently, I came across a statement by the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the vernacular press about his government’s priorities. Addressing members of the provincial Assembly from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), he said that the people had not voted them into government to pave the streets, construct highways or to build flyovers but for […]

How unfortunate is the land where gloomy winters give birth to a violent spring? Violence of all hues and colours, ethnic violence, sectarian violence, religious violence and mob violence have all sprouted to ‘entertain’ our depraved souls. The raids, suicide attacks, operations, bombings and lynchings are what we waited for during the long, cold winter. […]

A cursory look at the Muslim world reveals that Muslims are at war with themselves and others. Muslim societies, with only a few exceptions notwithstanding, are marred by authoritarianism, sectarianism, religious extremism and obscurantism. The Judeo-Christian west led by the US is depicted as the primary cause of all the ills haunting Muslims across the […]

Our nation experienced democratic euphoria when General Pervez Musharraf was ousted from office and, later on, when Chief Justice (CJ) Ifthikhar Chaudhry was restored. Optimism about the future of democracy reached its crescendo after the passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment rousing hope that the rejuvenated legal fraternity, vibrant civil society, vociferous media and independent […]

The heartrending incident at the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar stirred our collective conscience as a nation and the state machinery moved into top gear to uproot militancy. The political and military leadership put their heads together to devise an effective strategy for bringing peace to the land. The moratorium on executions was immediately […]