Wajid Shamsul Hasan

My association with Bibi (Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto) covered a span of over three decades until her death. My affinity with her father Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from my student days as a fan until I became a journalist—made it easier for me to get very close to Bibi after I was introduced to her by […]

Since the critical matters of the state have become extremely grave by inapt handling by various rulers especially the present team of Prime Minister Imran Khan that it is now much too serious a situation to be left in the hands of the generals or their toady civilian politicians. Not that, we should initiate a […]

Month of December is both auspicious and inauspicious. In this month we have had many developments of far-reaching consequences. Generally speaking, it is very auspicious for humanity. It was on Christmas Day Holy Jesus Christ was born as a messenger of God to deliver the world of all its evils. On this day until than […]

She agreed with me that since GIK, General Aslam Beg seemed to have made up their mind to get rid of her she should talk to them to wrap up things and forget about making a speech on August 14. She agreed with me. Next day we left Karachi for Islamabad. Later in the evening […]

Movember 16 Elections in 1988 was a land mark event in the politics of Pakistan especially related to the future of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and democracy. Mohtarma had no doubt won the elections after long struggle, intrigues and conspiracies of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, his coterie of generals, bureaucrats and ISI who were hell bent […]

Pakistan has always needed strong institutions even if we had strong men in power. The way things are developing leaving two of the strongest men in power is a manifestation of their helplessness.  No doubt analysts who think themselves to be all knowing about national issues do not actually know much about them. Indeed, democracy […]

With the passage of time history becomes more re-vealing as previous records lose prohibition of time limitation for public exposure. American classified cuments after their declassification have revealed that Liaquat Ali Khan refused to offer Pakistan as a base for the Anglo-American operations for toppling the government of Prime Minister Dr Mossadegh who was not […]

Greatest tragedy that has hit us hard can be at best be described by Professor KK Aziz’s as murder of our history. We lost no time in engineering our history by charlatans who grabbed straight and disfigured Jinnah Sahib’s vision to fall into the hands of usurpers who distorted and disgorged it. He refused to […]

It is unbelievable to know that two countries with relations deeper than the seven seas and higher than the Mount Everest could get entangled in logger heads. Ever since Imran khan got selected into power, his foreign minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi has not been successful to muster the support of OIC countries to corner India […]

In what is being described a fantastic track record of exceptional ‘hip-beating performance’ in last two years, when his most wealthy minister Azam Swati had to resign from his cabinet post in the initial days of IK government to allow public accountability to take a natural course following a controversy over transfer of IG police […]