PTIs quest for opposition leadership on October 4, 2017After the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif – the Leader of the House in the National Assembly – the office of the Leader of the Opposition seems to be the next target of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Last month, the party had reached out to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) which was once labelled by […]
No One Killed Benazir! on September 10, 2017They took almost a decade! Still, the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court’s decision on the assassination of the First Female Prime Minister of the Islamic world has caused great shock and anguish. The pain I felt on 27th December 2007 has been reprised on 31st August 2017. Hearing this judgment another example of a flawed Criminal Justice […]
Foreign policy lessons from Bhutto on September 2, 2017 “The Pakistani nation is a brave nation. One of the greatest British generals said that the best infantry fighters in the world are the Pakistanis. We will fight. We will fight for a thousand years, if it comes to that….I find it disgraceful to my person and to my country to remain here a […]
No surprises from Trump on August 27, 2017“We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars; at the same time they are housing the very terrorists that we are fighting, it is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilisation, order, and to peace”. (President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump). Seriously? This is what we get […]