When apples were oranges on January 5, 2017When Ambassador Teresita Schaffer called Husain Haqqani a man with golden tongue, she must have missed the conversations with another contemporary, Mushahid Hussain Sayed. Both gentlemen – rather unique characters of Pakistani politics – used to engage with each other in heated debates at the palatial residence of Begum Abida Hussain in mid 1980s. The […]
When apples were oranges on January 5, 2017 When Ambassador Teresita Schaffer called Husain Haqqani a man with golden tongue, she must have missed the conversations with another contemporary, Mushahid Hussain Sayed. Both gentlemen – rather unique characters of Pakistani politics – used to engage with each other in heated debates at the palatial residence of Begum Abida Hussain in mid 1980s. […]
Zardari guarantees complete five-year term to PML-N regime on December 28, 2016ISLAMABAD: The announcement of former president Asif Ali Zardari to become member of the National Assembly guarantees one thing – successful conclusion of five-year term of the current assemblies. Though he promised to put an end to the “Mughal emperor” rule in the country, his decision would be interpreted as offering a helping hand to […]
Chaudhry Nisar: an indispensible companion? on December 23, 2016Post 2002 general elections the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) shrunk to a 19-seats party in the National Assembly. A year before that all key members of Sharif family had conveniently struck a deal with General Musharraf to begin a rather secluded yet luxurious life in Saroor Palace of Jeddah. Left behind to face ire of […]
Justice delayed is justice denied? on December 9, 2016All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. The 70-year-old Orwellian delineation of hypocrisy in Stalin regime would best describe the ‘House of Sharifs’ and, perhaps, the country’s judicial system. Balzac believed that laws were spider webs through which the big flies passed and the little ones got caught. Earlier, Voltaire […]
Commerce Ministrys inactivity stalling TDAP since April on November 18, 2016ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce has been unable to provide six names to the prime minister for establishing the Board of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) despite seven months having passed. Sources told this scribe that TDAP work has been stalled for the last seven months due to a non-functioning Board as many important […]
Hillary likely to become first woman president on November 8, 2016WASHINGTON: Americans write history today by most likely electing the first woman president in the history, after Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton got a clean-chit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over her alleged emails scandal. However, the event would not be as euphoric as it was, in 2008, when the American voters elected first-ever […]
FBI tightens noose around Clinton on November 1, 2016WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained a necessary warrant to look into thousands of emails, they found in connection to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The computer, reportedly used by Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin, contains around 650,000 emails. The investigators would probe if any of those emails breached the […]
Indian diplomat living in federal capital without visa for six months on August 29, 2016ISLAMABAD: What could be more ludicrous than the fact that an Indian diplomat has been living in Pakistan without a visa. Whether it is an administrative hiccup or inefficiency of the ministries of interior and foreign affairs, illegal presence of the Indian national in the federal capital has raised serious question marks. A Foreign Office […]
Nawaz advised to grant three-year extension to Gen Raheel on July 14, 2016ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s core team has advised him to grant a three-year extension to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif who is retiring in November, official sources told Daily Times. Publically, the government has been claiming that neither has the COAS sought an extension, nor did the government gave it serious […]