The mirror review of the Trump’s last year in the While House shows his advisors had persuaded him he had been anointed by God to help the Jews regain their epic land and glory. He looked the other way while Prime Minister Netanyahu was unabashedly expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and provocatively declaring […]
Muslim Ummah And Pakistan – I
The Muslim Ummah is in a shambles. The civil wars in Yemen and Syria have not yet ended. Though an uneasy calm and peace characterizes the Arab-Iran relations after Saudi Arabia and Iran moved to reconcile, the war in the occupied land of Palestine has jolted many Muslim capitals exacerbating their security concerns. The genocidal […]
Delicate Security Situation on the Durand line
Pakistan, since its inception, has been unsuccessfully striving to have a friction-free relationship with Afghanistan. Both countries, more often than not, are described as inseparable Siamese twins with a sizeable Pashtun population living across the Durand line bound with each other by blood, linguistic, cultural and spiritual links and economic interdependence including the border and […]
The Passing Away of a Legend
Born in a royal family with his mother, Abida Sultaan, as the crown princess and his maternal grandfather, Nawab Hamidullah Khan as the ruler of the culturally rich, communally harmonious and economically prosperous state of Bhopal in India on 29 March 1934, Shaharyar Khan left for Pakistan at the age of 16. He never looked […]
Our politicians never learn any lesson – II
The opposition leaders formed the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA). Its no-holds-barred offensive election campaign poisoned the political landscape of the country. Their public insinuation that Late Bhutto was the illegitimate son of Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto was the most deplorable and despicable political and moral bankruptcy on the part of certain PNA stalwarts. The PNA leaders […]
Our Politicians Never Learn Any Lesson
The Supreme Court, in a recent verdict, admitted that Z A Bhutto was denied all opportunities for a fair trial in Nawab Ahmed Khan’s murder case. It, however, remained shy of overturning its earlier judgement. In the course of the mock trial of Late Bhutto, many known local and foreign jurists had extensively dilated on […]
Zardari in the Presidency
Mr Zardari’s deal with the PMLN for a coalition government in the federation paved the way for his second entry into the Presidency. He is the first civilian leader to have been elected to this august position for the second time. The PPP would have some other constitutional positions besides the provincial administrations of Sindh […]
Voiceless Nation
As a nation, we are facing a perennial threat to our existence. Our economy is on the cusp of collapse and the politics are in disarray. The state institutions are at loggerheads functioning for cross purposes. The Constitution is losing its sanctity. The populace is in misery overwhelmed by poverty, disillusionment and hopelessness. There is […]
Back to PDM-2
As the Election Commission of Pakistan is winding up the process of elections, the protests by PTI, GDA, JUI, Jamaat Islami and Balochistan nationalists against rigging are getting louder. It is gratifying that the two mainstream political parties, Pakistan Muslim League and Pakistan People’s Party, have evolved a midnight consensus for power sharing in a […]
Post-election Situation
The credibility of general elections has been seriously damaged. The voting trend until late at night showed a clear victory for PTI. However, the outcome of polls in the morning resulted in a hung parliament necessitating a coalition government with the participation of the partners of the erstwhile PDM regime with MQM’s elevated parliamentary strength. […]