A life with Bhuttos on February 24, 2021Interview of Ambassador Wajid Shamsul Hasan about his book, ‘Life with the Bhuttos’. At long last much awaited book by one of the remaining journalistic icons—call you what you may— ‘Last of Mohicans’ has come out and because of my contacts managed to secure first of the copies from the publisher Zanobia Ilyas/Mujahid Barelvi in […]
The OIC blunder on March 3, 2019Well done, Prime Minister Imran Khan for your decision to release Indian pilot Wing Commander AbhinandanVarthaman on Friday as a peace gesture to India. It has been rightly and widely lauded on social media across the globe. In fact, your gesture moved millions of hearts. Through this act of kindness during the prevailing Pakistan-India crisis, […]
Turning prisons into reform cells on February 17, 2019Our rulers see an opportunity missed to reform the justice system and prisons once they are out of power corridors and feel the heat of the lingering trials and appalling condition of jails. Though they get the status of a VIP prisoner taking benefits of their influence and jail manuals, our former rulers see a […]
Be divided and rule on March 18, 2018Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz crowned Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif as its new president. The way Shahbaz Sharif was ‘elected’ the party president at its general council meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday does not exhibit democratic norms in the party. He was ‘elected’ the president unopposed. But his speech on the occasion hardly reinforced the narratives […]
India-US expanding ties seems to correlate with Pak-US dwindling relations on September 3, 2016This week, Daily Times looks to emphasise India’s expanding relationship with the US just when Pak-US ties are worsening. Pakistan is also increasingly isolated internationally, with Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Iran all not on the best of terms with Islamabad. To make sense of the situation, Daily Times talked to Wajid Shamsul Hasan Former High Commissioner […]
When hospitals make us ill on September 2, 2016A large number of people using items made from hospital waste, recycled or repackaged illegally at facilities in Lahore’s suburbs are at risk of contracting diseases the waste carries. If hospital waste is not incinerated properly, it can cause HIV, hepatitis B, C, A and E, diarrhea, typhoid, bacterial infections, UTI and intoxication. Not only […]
Reforming the Tribal Areas of Pakistan on September 1, 2016The demand for extending democracy to the tribal areas of Pakistan is not a new one. Often conflated with terrorism and border-fragility in international news, the Tribal Areas of Pakistan have become a symbol of Islamabad’s negligence in building inclusionary structures for a wide swathe of strategically located terrain governed by archaic laws that spark […]
INTERVIEW: The meeting of the worlds through our territory Dr Qais Aslam on August 31, 2016China has signed with Pakistan $42-72 billion worth of contracts for China’s investment in infrastructural and energy projects in Pakistan, linking China to the warm waters of Indian Ocean and beyond through Pakistan. This gives China an economic outlet to the Persian Gulf, Asia, Africa, The Far East, Australia, Europe and America, especially USA through […]
Political cartoonist: When reality just isnt good enough! on August 20, 2016Cartoons have been a standing feature of print media as well as an illustrative means of providing comic relief. With the evolution of participatory democracy, cartoons have evolved into political comment and are also an instrument of social debate. The advent of camera photography transformed print journalism; however, photographs could not be given the same […]
Terrorists are hiding in tri-border areas on August 19, 2016LAHORE: On January 19, Pakistani police registered a case against unidentified perpetrators of the January 2 terrorist attack on the Indian air force base in Pathankot. The first information report (FIR) is based on initial evidence, such as the Pakistani mobile phone numbers the attackers were said be in contact with. Based on a formal […]