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Kulsoom Nawaz’s win in the NA-120 by-elections has made one thing clear: PML-N’s support-base is not only intact, it is also determined to fight for its electoral preferences. Although the NA-120 win was expected for the ruling party, it will send a message across Punjab that Nawaz Sharif’s core support is not leaving his side […]

Foreign policy has never been Pakistan’s strong point, but the situation seems to be particularly alarming this time around. Events since Donald Trump’s August 21 speech threatening Pakistan of dire consequences for its ‘continued support for regional terrorism’ have made two things certain: First, that the Americans are serious about using economic and military pressure […]

US President Trump laid out his plans for Afghanistan last Monday, and they don’t look good for Pakistan. The President stuck to his strong-man persona and threatened to cease all monetary assistance to Pakistan if it continues to provide shelter to ‘agents of chaos, violence and terror.’ Going a step further, he praised India’s role […]

What Nawaz Sharif experienced on GT road a couple of weeks back is the solidarity of the masses towards the leaders who challenge the establishment. Time and again, the masses have put their weight behind any leader who has rebelled against the deep state throughout our history. Before Nawaz Sharif, the mantle of anti-establishment politics […]

You must have heard of the idiom that those who dig a pit for other will fall in it themselves. When our establishment digs a pit, it takes the entire nation down and still doesn’t learn a lesson. The latest scheme that the establishment is working on is, destroying the fragile political system of the […]

Probably the most shocking aspect of Panama verdict is the disdain with which the judges treated an elected Prime Minister during the hearing. Far from the unbiased adjudicators that they are supposed to be, the judges showed public contempt for the entire Sharif family by equating them with the Sicilian Mafia. Such behavior forced some […]

  The Joint Investigation Committee (JIT) report has put the PMLN under tremendous pressure, with increasing calls for the Prime Minister’s resignation. Keeping politics aside, the argument is that the Prime Minister’s name is now tainted given the accusations made by the JIT and he should resign to sustain the sanctity of his office. Another […]

Khawaja Saad Rafique’s latest back-to-back tirades during PML-N worker conventions are meant to send a clear message to the powers that be: we will not take it lying down anymore. Khawaja Saad Rafique, as many would know, is probably the only major leader in PML-N with firm roots in masses, and is adored by the […]

Sanity took a sigh of relief on Sunday as the globalist Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election, with a staggering 65 percent of votes, against the populist Marine Le Pen. Francoise Hollande had won the presidency with only 52 percent of popular vote in 2012 and Nickolas Sarkozy with only 53 percent in 2007. […]

The last couple of weeks have been pretty rough for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Every passing day throws a new challenge for him with another big issue consuming media and public attention. The saga over the Panama Papers verdict was far from over when the Indian businessman Sajjan Jindal’s meeting with the prime minister made […]