Khaled Ahmed

This year again, as school exams begin in Sindh, cheating during papers has taken hold. Teachers who look after the exams as invigilators actually do the cheating: they look the other way as students take out their notes and copy answers supplied them beforehand. They allow cellphones into the examination hall despite prohibition and the […]

Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Mr. Ajay Bisaria was at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday and said Indo-Pak trade could reach its potential of $30 billion, as estimated by the World Bank if the two sides eased visas for their traders. The two neighbors trade only $2.2bn directly while smuggling accounts […]

Many thought Nawaz Sharif was wrongly dismissed as prime minister. Not only did his party think that he had been done in by a biased Supreme Court, even his prime foe Imran Khan said on TV that the verdict of the Court against Sharif was a “weak verdict”. Then well-reputed Justice Faez Isa of the […]

After the Senate upset, Pakistan’s TV astrologers are unwilling to predict victory for Nawaz Sharif in the June general election — even if the stars point to his victory. It is almost certain in everyone’s estimate that he and his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) will disappear from the political landscape like so many earlier […]

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi is wanted by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad but is absconding and no one knows where he is. The Supreme Court is also hearing a case against him relating to the November 2017 violent “dharna” that disrupted life in the twin cities Islamabad-Rawalpindi for 20 days. Although it is […]

We don’t know how the United Nations’ 6th World Happiness Report calculated that Pakistan is ahead of India, China, Iran, and Afghanistan on the ranking table of happiness. But ask anyone on the Pakistani street and you will be hit with more unhappiness than anywhere else in South Asia. If you watch the TV channels […]