Mohammad Jamil

A French-Tunisian drove a lorry at high speed into a crowd celebrating the country’s national holiday, and enjoying the Bastille Day fireworks along the Promenade des Anglais seafront in French city of Nice, killing 84 people, injuring more than 100. Police shot and killed the driver. French President Francois Hollande in an address to the […]

The prime minister of Pakistan had a reason to be away for his medical treatment in London. But at this point when the country faced multifaceted crises, the decision of President Mamnoon Hussain, Senate Chairman, and acting president Raza Rabbani to leave for umra is not understandable. The Speaker of the assembly was supposed to […]

The Middle East peace Quartet — the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — released its report on Friday stating, “The Israeli policy is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution.” The report recommended that Israel should stop building settlements, denying Palestinian development and designating land for exclusive Israeli use […]

Poverty is indeed the most serious challenge, as it is the basic reason for hunger, disease, extremism, crimes and other malaises in a society. A common method used to measure poverty was based on incomes or consumption levels whereby a person was considered poor if his level of consumption of calories fell below 2,300, or […]

Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday by a court in an espionage trial in which six co-defendants were handed death penalties. The Cairo Criminal Court upheld the death sentences of six members of the Muslim Brotherhood members, and awarded life imprisonment to two others. Life imprisonment in Egypt is […]

After the election in which Ashraf Ghani became the president, Pak-Afghan relations seemed to be on a positive trajectory, as Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders had thrown all support behind Ghani’s efforts to bring peace to his war-ravaged country. He had indeed reciprocated and taken steps to soothe Pakistani concerns about Indian influence in Afghanistan. […]

Reportedly, the fifth meeting of 12-member committee on the Panama leaks, which was held on Saturday, remained inconclusive. The government team has rejected Terms of Reference (ToR) framed by the opposition, and has presented its own ToR, which will be discussed in the committee meeting on Tuesday. Whereas the opposition demands investigations against the Sharif […]

After partition of the subcontinent, the Communist Party of India (CPI) sent some of its Muslim members led by Marxist intellectual, Sajjad Zaheer, to Pakistan with a view to fostering ties with labour leaders, student union leaders and leftist politicians to pave the way for communist revolution in Pakistan. Zaheer formed the Communist Party of […]

It could be said that political parties that uphold their ideology, on being elected to power implement their manifesto and deliver, tend to grow bigger. On the other hand, parties that flagrantly disregard their manifesto and aspirations of the people, do not honour their commitments, and if their leaders are accused of being involved in […]

For quite some time, the US government and media have been painting Pakistan in the most ignoble colours. What Obama administration could not say it straight it says through its mouthpieces — The New York Times and The Washington Post. Baseless stories are published to mislead the world, and accusations are levelled against Pakistan and […]