Iftekhar A Khan

When the elections were announced for Feb 8 and some lodged petitions to postpone them for various reasons, a large majority in the country is worried more about its living conditions, which are worsening with time. It’s disheartening for any sensitive and thinking citizen to see our country sinking economically and mouths to feed rising […]

The nation, in the last few years, has been passing through a stage when anxiety was written large on most faces. The worry so manifested varied from one class of society to another. Broadly, if we divide society into four main classes, the feelings of anxiety for each class could be perceived in its true […]

Mian Nawaz Sharif’s return to the base has made his followers happy and his opponents morose. As a politician, he has much to recount in terms of his achievements during the years he was in power. It’s human nature that whatever one possesses is taken for granted. For example, if the Lahore-Islamabad motorway didn’t exist, […]

Israel’s behaviour is symptomatic of a rudderless country outside the ambit of international laws. Will Israel’s genocidal attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed about 500 people and injured innumerable others, including children, cause any embarrassment or shame to its ‘ironclad’ supporters? Or will Israel dropping white phosphorus bombs in Gaza’s thickly populated areas, […]

How many times in the past was the PIA placed at the verge of privatisation but it survived? And how many times PIA’s competitor in loss-making, the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), was put up for privatisation but it also survived? Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in February this year demanded the government to privatise […]

The bomb blasts in two mosques on the day of the birth of the Holy Prophet when the faithful gathered to pray was the most unfortunate event. The blast in a mosque in Dist. Mastung, Baluchistan, killed 52 people and injured 70 others. Simultaneously, another blast took place in a mosque in Hangu in Khyber […]

When wanting to meet a senior government official one is often informed by the office staff, “The boss is in the meeting.” Meetings in government offices and secretariats are a routine matter. Most of these meetings are held over a cup of tea and knickknacks or followed by a meal. Meetings of the bureaucrats are […]

The fuel prices have recently shot up. The unit price of electricity is already high and beyond the paying capacity of the majority of the population. Never before has one dreaded so much to receive the monthly electric bill as it is now. High prices of both together are having a devastating impact on public […]

The September 11 anniversary has just passed quietly without any international coverage. But it rekindled the memories of 9/11 (2001) when the World Trade Centre in New York was blown up supposedly by the foreign invaders. The ‘clever and resourceful’ Arab invaders hijacked American passenger planes and smashed them against the twin-towers and the Pentagon. […]

When ordinary citizens protest on the roads with highly inflated electricity bills, it means the national economy is sinking and warrants urgent attention by the government. Even if the unelected government cared less about the public pressure caused by inflation, the public hardships would not lessen. Recently, the departed PDM government blames the previous PTI […]