The Pakistan People’s Party has become a political and electoral juggernaut in Sindh. Except on a few occasions, it has remained electorally ascendant in the province since its inception. No political party or alliance has ever had enough popular support to challenge its political and electoral dictatorship. Over the years, the electorates of Sindh have […]
Who hurt Pakistan?
The political and economic scenario in the country since February 2023 has been, to say the least, painfully disturbing displaying the depth of the unabashed disregard of the ruling elite and the state institutions towards the constitution, rule of law, and fundamental human rights. Though the nation has been in a sort of perpetual disarray […]
The NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine
Casually dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans that enhance his boyish looks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has pursued the NATO leaders from Bucharest to Vilnius for his beleaguered country’s membership of the military alliance. The success has so far eluded him. He is not daunted by his failed attempts. Seemingly, the European allies including […]
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Failure in Afghanistan
Pakistan, since its inception, has been unsuccessfully striving to have a friction-free relationship with Afghanistan. Though 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, the Afghan leaders had, for unfathomable reasons, no qualms in obstructing the membership […]
A Voice in the Wilderness
We own a country of 230 million people. We have a strong and large army; possess nuclear weapons, rich resources including vast agricultural lands and a reasonably large industrial base; a well-recruited and well-trained civil service; and a large network of higher educational institutions. We produce hundreds of PhDs, professors, economists, engineers, and technology experts, […]
National Security Council
For the past year, the nation is on a political cliffhanger. We witnessed the rising political tempers; a phenomenal increase in the popularity of the PTI leadership; the diminishing political fortunes of PDM; the increasing reliance of the coalition regime on the coercive instruments of the state to face the sole opponent’s juggernaut; a gross […]
The Marauding Elite
Notwithstanding the complexion of the pre-partition All India Muslim League dominated by dynastic elite–knighted landlords, feudal chiefs, sardars, nawabs, sajadahnashins–led singlehandedly by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and whatever the rationale behind the creation of Pakistan, the common people of this part of India and East Bengal played the central role in forcing the All India Congress […]
Hoping Against Hope
A country of 230 million people-endowed with rich natural resources, fertile lands, rivers, hardworking and resilient people, vast markets, strategic location, a long coastline, seaports, strong military strength, and economic potential-has been hijacked by a greedy elite masquerading as leaders who have been clawing bit by bit its flesh and making it hollow from within. […]
To Hope and Sanity
We recall the PDM had promised to end the stagflation; arrest the inflation; bring down the prices of petroleum products and utilities; stop the devaluation of the Pak currency; rehabilitate the economy; stabilize the political situation; turn the vituperative politics into a decent and civilized political contest; follow the constitutional path and the rule of […]
An Era of Despair
The high inflation, the shrinking individual and national savings, the increasing unemployment and poverty, the gnawing hunger, the helplessness, the crumbling law and order, the intensifying political tussle, the shameful abuse of the state’s coercive power in dismantling and creating political parties, the torture of political workers, the gagging of media, the falling credibility of […]