Myanmar’s Buddhist leader is a coward, unlike bin Laden: JeM on September 12, 2017ISLAMABAD: The latest issue of Jaish-e-Mohammad’s (JeM) weekly magazine Al-Qalam lashes out at the extremist Buddhist monk who has been labelled as ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ by global media. “This Buddhist terrorist is called ‘bin Laden of Buddhism’, while he is in fact ‘bin rat’,” says the leading column, which regularly appears in every issue of […]
An attempt to change balance of power in SA on August 23, 2017Much-awaited ‘South Asia Policy’ by US President Donald Trump is finally out. While some would call it an old rhetoric repeated over and over again by the US in last seventeen years, for others it might be a change from beating about the bush to a non-nonsense approach soaked in American war-fatigue, eagerness to remain […]
United we stand on August 22, 2017ISLAMABAD: There exist no fissures between the civil and the military leadership. Pakistan Army is a professional force and it is aware of the fact that it is subservient to the Constitution and works under civilian authority, Maj. General Asif Ghafoor, Director General ISPR, said on Monday. He was addressing a massively-attended press conference in […]
Hindus are part of our history, MLord on August 13, 2017A video clip of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar speaking on the occasion of a ceremony to mark the anniversary of attack on Quetta’s lawyers fraternity is doing rounds on social media. “Two Nations Theory was the basis of Pakistan’s creation”, he said. While explaining what the theory meant, Justice Nisar went on to say, “Sir […]
A cabinet tailor-made for 2018 elections on August 5, 2017The much-awaited federal cabinet was sworn in finally on Friday with an expansion and slight reshuffling. With just a bird’s eye view of the new cabinet, one gets a strong impression of the PML-N as a fallen-but-not-dead party that appears to be in the mood to strike back at adversaries and challengers. Also visible in […]
Sunnat-e-Khaula on August 3, 2017Islamabad: The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly launched a magazine for women. The copies distributed online show its title as Sunnat-e-Khaula – that translates into The Ways of Khaula (R.A). Hazarat Khaula Bint al-Azwar is prominent among Muslim Arab warrior from the 7th Century. She had fought side by side with her brother Hazarat […]
History repeated, not made on July 30, 2017The protracted judicial drama against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family ended with a verdict disqualifying him. The apex court also ‘directed’ National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to prepare and file references against Sharif and his family members to be tried before the accountability court on all the counts that the report of Joint […]
Whats wrong with the verdict? Everything on July 29, 2017The judgement is in. The jury unanimous. But that doesn’t mean that the Supreme Court’s decision to tell Nawaz to go in no uncertain terms comes not without its fair share of surprises. For amidst all the cries lauding the ruling as a triumph for Pakistani democracy – we must remind ourselves that nothing is […]
Whats wrong with the verdict? Everything on July 29, 2017The judgement is in. The jury unanimous. But that doesn’t mean that the Supreme Court’s decision to tell Nawaz to go in no uncertain terms comes not without its fair share of surprises. For amidst all the cries lauding the ruling as a triumph for Pakistani democracy – we must remind ourselves that nothing is […]
PM gets special report unveiling conspiracy on July 14, 2017A special report has been submitted to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the so-called conspiracy allegedly being hatched against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government, at the behest of the ‘establishment’. Besides delineating the political situation evolving in the wake of the Joint Investigation Team’s report submitted in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the report […]