Naya Pakistan is not different from Purana Pakistan on June 21, 2019Having realised that the PTI government and Prime Minister Imran Khan were under fire from the print and electronic media, Ramiz Raja, the cricket commentator, took to Twitter, to speak against talk shows and anchor and journalists for their destructive criticism. He tweeted: “What is gone wrong with our TV political shows and anchors? They […]
Fighting extremism with clarity on May 8, 2019Addressing a public reception in Chittagong on March 26, 1948, Muhammad Ali Jinnah said, “Brotherhood, equality, and fraternity of man – these are all basic points of our religion, culture and civilization and we fought for Pakistan because there was a danger of the denial of these human rights in this Subcontinent.” Unfortunately, the very […]
Crises in Venezuela on April 2, 2019American mainstream political parties Democrats and Republicans as well as politicians across the aisle do disagree on domestic policies, but they join hands when it comes to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign state which dares defy America or follow a different economic model or geo-political direction. Having done unimaginable destruction in Libya, […]
Accountability is on the rise and so are conspiracy theories on July 16, 2018The Avenfield case reached a verdict on July 6. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and her husband, Captain (retd) Safdar, were sentenced to 10, seven, and a year of imprisonment, respectively. The Accountability Court also ordered that the apartments in question be seized by the government. Nawaz’s sons, Hassan and Hussain, […]
Plagiarist at the helm of HEC’s affairs on May 22, 2018The plagiarism guardian — HEC has been left red-faced as its Executive Director has been caught red-handed in plagiarism. When the news of alleged crime of plagiarism by HEC ED Dr Arshad Ali hit headlines in the print media on 28 December 2017, the-then chairman HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmed had formed a fact-finding committee to […]
Judges in the line of fire on April 26, 2018The judiciary is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. While hearing high profile cases, uncompromising judges and their families are vulnerable to countless threats. This includes intimidation, kidnapping and assassination attempts through shooting and bomb attacks. The firing on the residence of Justice Ejaz-ul-Ahsen, the monitoring judge in the ongoing NAB references […]