Dr V P Vaidiks talk on Pak-India relations on June 4, 2013The future of relations between Pakistan and India hinges on the future of the Kashmir issue. This was the conclusion of the talk, “The future of Pak-India relations”, given by Dr V P Vaidik, Chairman for Indian Foreign Policy and an ex-editor of The Times of India. On the evening of June 1, the talk […]
The British Home Office and Pakistani students on May 28, 2013In the United Kingdom (UK), the UK Border Agency (UKBA) is an agency of the Home Office that looks after the UK’s immigration affairs including student visas. After the change of government in the UK from Labour to Conservative in May 2010, a secret pilot study was conducted by the UKBA on the direction of […]
Sheikh Rashid, TV talk shows and the PTI on May 21, 2013 After Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, the politician who has been most benefited by the general elections 2013 is none other than Sheikh Rashid Ahmed of the Awami Muslim League (AML). With that, the media’s darling and TV talk shows’ spice, Sheikh Rashid, is back in parliament. Sheikh Rashid contesting the election from NA-55 […]
The electronic media and general elections 2013 on May 14, 2013The general elections of 2013 have laid bare the weaknesses of the electronic media especially pertaining to its commentator aspect. The results of the elections have shown that the number of seats being assigned to each political party (just a couple of days before the elections) by analysts (who used to appear on various TV […]
Reorienting the British High Commission on May 7, 2013When overseas students land in the United Kingdom (UK) for studies, the UK’s universities arrange reorientation courses for them. The year 2013 suggests that the British High Commission in Pakistan also needs reorientation especially when the issue is of its obligations towards overseas Pakistani students. The obligations begin the moment the Commission receives the student […]
Problems with the British Council Pakistan on April 30, 2013On April 14, 2013, on the page 07 of one of Pakistan’s most circulated Urdu dailies, a full-page advertisement on an education counselling fair for September 2013 intake was published at the upper-right top of which the four-dot logo of the British Council was also prominent along with the words ‘in cooperation with [the] British […]
Pak-Afghan relations: the fear of strategic repulsion s on September 4, 2012Life is a conflict between one’s intent and one’s fate. No one knows this truth better than Pakistanis. Interestingly, Pakistan has also been trying to synchronise its intent with its fate.Regarding its western border, the prevalent intent of Pakistan is based on three main presumptions. First, the military operation in North Waziristan has not taken […]
Lost by the government, gained by the judiciary on July 3, 2012Pakistanis are still experimenting with democracy. How many prime ministers will be sacrificed to prove a point is the latest experiment. A new type of judicio-democratic history is in the making. One school of thought advises the higher judiciary to restrain itself from falling hard on the incumbent government while the second school of thought […]
The NRO affair on June 26, 2012Is the fate of the new prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf going to be different from that of his predecessor is the question reverberating in Pakistan? More replies are in the negative thereby meaning that the destiny of the new prime minister has been preordained: sudden death. The Supreme Court (SC) has set June 27 […]
Media-gate and the Chief Justice of Pakistan on June 19, 2012Money matters. More money, more matters. One such matter has surfaced to illustrate the deceptive and malicious face of the electronic media. On June 13, a talk show on a private TV channel was telecasting something like the performance of Begum Nawazish Ali who was concealing Ali Saleem under her feminine facade. The truth-hiding strategy, […]