‘10 billion trees project will bring a revolution’ on July 4, 2019Ministry of Climate Change will be releasing funds to KP government for payment of salaries of the staff under 10-Billion Trees Afforestation Project (10-BTAP), Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Amin Aslam said while talking to media on Wednesday. He was briefing a delegation of media persons on the project status and achievements under […]
Pakistani progressive thinkers stand for strong democracy, healthy civil-military balance on December 17, 2018WASHINGTON DC: Prominent progressive thinkers and human rights defenders from Pakistan have expressed their grave concern over Pakistan’s drift towards authoritarianism and weakening of country’s civilian institutions as a consequence of systematic expansion of the military’s control over public policy. These views were expressed during a conference titled ‘Pakistan: After the Elections’, organised under the […]
Is govt deliberately taking a collision course in Senate? on November 16, 2018After almost a month of perpetual exchange of heated words between Federal Minister of Information and some members form the Opposition benches, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani finally gave a ruling that the House had not witnessed in its recent history. Fawad Chaudhry, the minister concerned, was barred from entering the Senate chamber for the rest […]
Enforced disappearances: how the state of Pakistan has failed on August 30, 2018On the eve of International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 2018, there is very little — if anything — that the government of Pakistan could offer to the people of Pakistan as good news. People are still going missing, the state is still unwilling to investigate cases of enforced disappearances, the perpetrators still […]
A Cabinet of ‘Change’? on August 19, 2018The newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan announced his 21-membered federal cabinet yesterday as a first step of implementing his decades-old slogan of purported ‘change’. The cabinet for now consists of 16 ministers and 5 advisors as per the list issued by the Prime Minister’s Office. Under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the cabinet members cannot […]
WAF concerned over serious rigging allegations on August 7, 2018The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) has expressed concerns on reports about mismanagement and alleged rigging in the general elections of 2018. The representatives of the Forum maintain that the kind of pre-poll engineering witnessed recently can undermine the legitimacy of the elections with serious repercussions on Pakistan’s efforts to transition into a well-functioning democracy. Speaking […]
Elections 2018 and the political chessboard on July 27, 2018The complete results of the general elections for national and provincial assemblies are still awaited, however as per the unofficial projections Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the largest political party in the National Assembly and provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while second largest in provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh. In Balochistan, […]
Gazain Marri released from house arrest after the intervention of high court on July 20, 2018ISLAMABAD: Baloch politician Gazain Marri was released on Thursday from his seven days long house arrest after the order by the Balochistan High Court. The order came as the court disposed of the petition filed by Ms. Shehrazad Marri, wife of Nawabzada Gazain Khan Marri, under article 199 of the constitution. A two-member bench of […]
Election being engineered in Balochistan: Gazain Marri on July 19, 2018 The upcoming elections are far from free and fair. They are being managed openly, and the results have been decided already. These views were expressed by Gazain Marri, son of legendary Baloch politician Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, popular for his Marxist leanings, in a telephonic interview with Daily Times from a house in Kohlu […]
Interim regulation is a stopgap measure, can be revoked sooner than expected: Sartaj Aziz on June 9, 2018Islamabad: The FATA Interim Governance Regulation 2018 was a stopgap measure, which could be replaced very soon, Sartaj Aziz, the chairperson of the FATA Reforms Committee, said on Friday. He was responding to arguments put forth by Kamran Arif, the vice chairperson of the HRCP from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at a consultative meeting. Arif had said […]