Malik Muhammad Ashraf

Notwithstanding Imran’s emphasis on rule of law from every convenient roof-top, what transpired at Zaman Park, when police and law enforcement agencies went there to carry out the implementation of the arrest warrants issued by Session Judge of Islamabad, was a horrendous portrayal of undermining writ of the state and making a mockery of judiciary. […]

A proverb advices, “Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.” It means that enlightened, well-intentioned and visionary souls have no place where ignorance is regarded as perfect happiness and it is a big mistake on their part if they try to remove it. Nevertheless, ignorance is universally recognised as a curse afflicting […]

Reportedly, an agitated crowd attacked a police station in Nankana on 11 February, pulled out a man accused of desecration of the Holy Quran from the lock-up and killed him. This tragic incident of mob justice unfortunately is not the first of its kind. A similar punishment was inflicted on Mashal Khan a student of […]

The Indian security forces have been using ruthless force to suppress the freedom struggle of the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K), which they launched in 1989 after having been frustrated by the Indian intransigence to grant them the right of self-determination. According to reports compiled by human rights organizations and other authentic […]

Machiavelli, regarded as the father of nationalism, is usually perceived as a proponent of politics divorced from conventional morality and bringing forth all means in the quest for political power, even the most unscrupulous. There are many takers of that view, and in most third-world countries, including Pakistan, morality has no place in the power […]

Needless to emphasize that Pakistan at the moment is meandering through an unprecedented economic crisis which is the cumulative effect of the inability of the successive regimes to effect structural changes conducive to macro-economic transformation, a greater focus on micro-economic achievements through excessive short-term borrowing that triggered snow-balling increase in current account deficit leading to […]

Yesterday, the nation celebrated the birth anniversary of Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan who created history by winning a separate homeland for Muslims on an ideological basis, which was an unparalleled event of the twentieth century. We will see a deluge of messages by the political leaders and eminent personalities paying tributes to the benefactor […]

It is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that the appointment of a new COAS has been made controversial. The architect of this controversy is the PTI chairman and former prime minister, Imran Khan, who maintains that since the political future of the country and its direction would be determined by this […]

Brazilian lyricist, an eminent literary figure and winner of several international awards, Paulo Coelho de Souza, described friendship as, “Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.” What he said is quintessential of the friendship between Pakistan and China, which is far beyond and above the […]

Irrespective of the fact whether some people liked or did not appreciate his pursuits as a journalist, particularly his irresistible propensity to hurl incessant flak at the establishment and the PDM leadership in the wake of the removal of Imran Khan from the Premiership as a result of a no-confident motion against him, the fact […]