Nisar the enigma political on July 28, 2017Federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is upset with his party leadership because, as he made clear on Thursday, he has been excluded from consultation process on Panamagate scandal. Nisar wants to know why was he excluded from such consultations, and whether it was because of the stance he had adopted in the party […]
Nisar the enigma political on July 28, 2017Federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is upset with his party leadership because, as he made clear on Thursday, he has been excluded from consultation process on Panamagate scandal. Nisar wants to know why was he excluded from such consultations, and whether it was because of the stance he had adopted in the party […]
Two nations, one ethnicity on July 21, 2017Most countries in the world have border problems with their neighbours. Some of these problems have led to wars; some big, some small and some had remained just about in-between. In many case, these problems have, with mutual consent, been consigned to the back-burner as countries in dispute conducted normal business on political, economic and […]
Khan (con) spiracy? on July 13, 2017The worst that was expected of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was foolproof confirmation that the London flats were bought in early 1990s with tax-evaded money laundered out of the country by Mian Sharif. This would have absolved Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of any wrongdoing and the sons being non-resident Pakistanis and no office holders […]
Stepping down may be the best option for Sharif on July 11, 2017The much awaited JIT report is out and on the face of it, its findings appear too devastating for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his close family. As expected, PTI chief Imran Khan has welcomed the report and demanded that the Prime Minister should immediately step down. The ruling PMLN has rejected the report, calling […]
Gunfight at Himalayan chicken neck on July 6, 2017Accusing China of ‘instigating’ the recent military stand-off in the high Himalayas Indian Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has bragged that India today was very different from what it was in 1962. Next, Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat in the same context boasted that India could take on a “two-and-a-half front war”, possibly referring to […]
China and Trumps Indo-Pak meddling on June 29, 2017Pakistan has termed as “completely unjustified” the US move to declare Syed Salahuddin, chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. India on its part said, “It does vindicate India’s longest-standing position that cross-border terrorism is behind disturbance created in Kashmir since last year.” The US, however, seems to have done what it […]
An insiders view on Pak-India ties on June 22, 2017Washington seems to be mulling over the idea of winning Pakistan’s cooperation in Afghanistan by helping it resolve its India problems. This is one of the options being looked at by the US strategists trying to find a way out of the 16-year long Afghanistan quagmire for America. The other options seem centred on forcing […]
Adjusting to a whirling world order on June 15, 2017Let us stop looking at China through the eyes of our 1960s’ generation. It is no more a country fenced in under a bamboo curtain looking out only through a narrow Pakistani window. It has gone global. Today, China is an economic giant, second only to the US in size. With India alone, the size […]
The Panama jitters on June 8, 2017No matter who prompted him to issue such dire threats to no matter who, Senator Nehal Hashmi needs to be taken to task for what he did. If he had done the mischief on his own its consequences for him should be even severer. In case he was prompted then the prompter should be identified […]