Iftekhar A Khan

The PTI government never looked as shaky in the last few years in power as it now appears. Leadership’s decision to embark on mass contact rallies, addressed by none less than the PM himself, seems to be a last-ditch effort to recover the lost standing of the party among the people. But mere bravado without […]

Why don’t the bureaucrats, so-called the civil servants or the servants of the people, want to retire when their service tenure ends? Instead, they want to hang on to their official positions for as long as they possibly can. Retiring gracefully at the end of meritorious service is characteristic of one’s high-mindedness. Those who retire […]

The prime minister warned that he would be far more dangerous when out of power than he is in power. It’s an ominous warning at his level that everyone seems to interpret it in his way. Although uncertainty among the public about the future existed for a long time, the PM’s dire warning further strengthened […]

A PMLN lawmaker introduced a bill in the Senate demanding the South Punjab province. South Punjab or Saraiki province had been a hot topic before the last election. Some won seats in the parliaments by proclaiming for a new province in South Punjab. More than three years in power, the PTI government has only been […]

Only one thing is certain in life and that is death. But if death approaches while waiting under conditions of increasing suffocation accompanied by the feeling of extreme helplessness, its intensity must multiply beyond imagination. Those who suffered the tragedy in Murree deserve our collective prayers. Articles appeared almost in all newspapers lambasting the negligence […]

A report by the Wall Street Journal has been circulating how the United States spent $14 trillion of taxpayers’ money on wars in the last 20 years and how the war contractors pocketed nearly half of this colossal amount. The WSJ collected the data from Brown University’s Cost of War Project. Although the university is […]

Those who scoured newspapers and remained glued to TV screens throughout the year that just passed would recall that most of the discussions and headlines didn’t have much to do with the public welfare. Most discussions pertained to point-scoring between the ruling party and the opposition. For the public, it meant living in interesting times, […]

The country is on the verge of bankruptcy if it’s not bankrupt already, as declared by Shabbar Zaidi, one of the top economic experts and former chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue. National borrowing has touched new levels, leaving every individual heavily under debt. Imagine, the burden of loan, every citizen, irrespective of age […]

Thousands of men and women have been staging protests for the last one month in Gwadar to claim their basic rights. Topping the list of their demands has been their right to earn their livelihood. In an ultra-conservative Baloch culture when women come out of their homes to protest for their rights, it signals appalling […]

By the time this piece appears, a lot would have been written about the most gruesome act that resulted in lynching Priyantha Kumara and torching his mutilated body. It was heartrending to watch after the barbaric event when his wife, Nilushi, displayed his picture in which he held his graduation degree. And as far as […]