Inayatullah Rustamani

The Federal Budget was presented this month. The startling fact was that no relief was announced for the 50 percent of people below the poverty line in Pakistan. This was the second budget of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government. The poor people always eagerly wait for a year for the budget to hear about […]

The cold blooded murder of a married and three-month pregnant woman, Farzana Parveen, 25, outside the Lahore High Court (LHC) by her parents and relatives on Tuesday made headlines in the national as well as the international newspapers, and the electronic media. This shameful and inhuman act drew severe criticism of the weak laws for […]

India is the world’s largest democratic country. This is our neighbouring country. Both Pakistan and India obtained independence from British rule on the same day. They still have many things in common as well as in contrast. Poverty and illiteracy dominate them. However, democracy is strong in India and very fragile in Pakistan. The main […]

These days, street politics is in vogue in Pakistan. Big and small political parties are resorting to mass demonstrations against the elected democratic government. The people who lead street politics now never even once took to the streets against a dictator. In a democratic setup, there is hardly any room for street politics in the […]

Inevitably, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Pakistan a polio-exporting country and has imposed travel bans on its citizens. WHO’s Emergency Committee members and its expert advisors held a two-day meeting on the alarming spread of polio on April 28 and 29 in Geneva. The meeting declared 10 countries polio-infected, including three countries as […]

Democracy is the only form of government widely accepted worldwide. This is because democratic government is based on elected representatives and is run by them. The electorates have full authority to reject representatives who failed to perform in their last tenures during the next polls. The solution for all of Pakistan’s ills lies in the […]

Eight countries of the world have atomic capability. They have between them enough nuclear bombs that a sudden outbreak of atomic war could play havoc with all humans on earth. Generally, nuclear bombs are considered deterrence against foreign aggression. The unchecked aggressive acts of the majority of the powerful countries, mainly veto empowered United Nations […]

The relentless terror strikes in the last few weeks presage the fact that peace is unlikely in Pakistan even with a ‘successful’ ceasefire between the government of Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, has been bathed with blood twice after the so-called ceasefire. The first attack was a suicide-cum-firing inside a […]

Saudi Arabia has provided $ 1.5 billion to the government of Pakistan. Apprehensions and misgivings are widespread over the ulterior motives behind this big sum of money. The Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan and the finance minister have stated to the opposition parties, the media and the nation that the money has been ‘gifted’ to […]

The law in Pakistan is weak and so it is subject to frequent abuse at the hands of powerful people. This state of the law allows powerful people to violate human rights. The declining human rights situation in Pakistan, if the reports of international and domestic human rights NGOs, the international and domestic press, and […]