Senate – 14 turncoats and their masters! on August 4, 2019The audacity, hypocrisy and double standards displayed by 14 senators with respect to the Senate Chairman’s Vote of ‘No Confidence Motion’ was a crude insult to my intellect, education and unwavering adherence to democratic values. How dare this political elite sit on TV screens day in and day out and lecture us on every aspect […]
The Chevening experience on October 3, 2018The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) selects future leaders from approximately 160 countries each year, via the Chevening Scholarship Programme. In 2016, I was among the future leaders selected from Pakistan to study a fully-funded one year course at a university of my choice in the UK. I chose the Queen Mary University of […]
Punjab CM’s Office – An open letter to IK on August 3, 2018Pakistan has finally tumbled past 25th July general elections with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf emerging victorious. This was a political bout of epic proportions. The greatest political fist-fight of our generation. It was like watching Ali vs. Frazier with much greater stakes – the lives of more than 20 crore Pakistanis hanging in the balance. […]
Stop comparing Jahangir Tareen with Nawaz Sharif! on May 18, 2018Both Nawaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen are undeniably ‘mammoth political entities’. However, the dissimilarities in their characteristics are manifest. Accountability must be across the board, but the media’s viciously synonymous treatment of ‘both entities’, since being disqualified under Article 62(1)(F), is an unfair presumption which will be robustly rebutted through an in-depth and holistic comparative […]