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Witnessing Mian Nawaz Sharif showcasing his smiles and cricket style in a community ground in Lahore and his legislators launching a well-orchestrated flurry of freestyle wrestling fracas and kabaddi kind of kicks and drags in parliament, evidently portend the morphing of Muslim League-Nawaz into a new mantle of martial sports. The spectacle of chuckles from […]

The indignation against the Supreme Court (SC) verdict implicating the unanimously elected premier swept a larger part of the nation, roiled a majority of its parliamentarians and has also stirred several serious questions about the judicial domain, dynamics, and its relationship with the executive as well as parliament. Protests torching tyres and copies of the […]

The glitz and glamour splashed by the renowned media accolades like the Oscars, Cannes and Emmys as well as the pageant of local Lux laurels have long faded and the year itself is ending but no awards unfortunately have so far been instituted or conferred upon our TV anchors despite their ceaseless prattle to inform […]

The chief justice (CJ) of Pakistan, despite innuendo from some quarters with regard to his incumbency, has quite heroically and unequivocally explicated the constitutional position and the duties of the armed forces and explicitly clarified that any action taken by the armed forces without the instructions of the federal government, would fall within the remit […]

The plight, passion, and promise of Pakistan cricket presently seems to be rather in the doldrums. Three of its aces have been imprisoned in London and suspicion surrounds even some of its other lacklustre international events. While the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) braces the tremendous burden of reincarnation, the fans would be missing the tides […]

Imran Khan’s show in Lahore, after all his harangue, hubbub and the rabble-rousing dharnas (sit-ins) to deter drones and dislodge the government was rather quite impressive, well organised and orchestrated. Shehzad Roy riveting together some disparate lines meant to impart a new mood to the event was a radical departure from the hortatory poems hitherto […]

Stopping the drone attacks on terrorist dens has been stirred into the most sizzling national concern and crucial policy agenda for the government. Most parts of the media had long trumpeted them as the most obdurate and wilful violation of our airspace, sovereignty and national honour and the cause of collateral damage that breeds more […]

Nawaz now not only has a new refurbished wig, renovated heart and less wrinkled face, some of the views recently ventured by him also appear to have been tempered by experience and introspection following his ouster and exile. He has, for instance, asked to repudiate the animosity against India, make the intractable generals and their […]

Maulvi Rafiq Tarar, an erstwhile jurist, exalted to be the president of the republic by Mian Nawaz Sharif during the days when his Abbaji’s shariah-soaked will ruled the roost, has recently requested the Lahore High Court (LHC) to excise the title ‘president’ affixed to General Pervez Musharraf’s name from all official records. This is really […]

In the lush vast manicured paradise expanse, cooled by the shades cast by the floating clouds and sprawling majestic oaks overhanging the limpid honey, milk, wine and water streams, were seated the two most illustrious and revered scions of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal, enthusiastically acknowledged as the poet pioneering the […]