Yasser Latif Hamdani

Justice Nisar’s tenure as Chief Justice went contrary to all that was known about him previously. Instead of being the cautious judicial conservative that he had been, he turned out to be an activist chief judge who intruded into every sphere of public policy, beyond what some argue is mandated by the constitution. In the […]

The government is planning a new mini-budget where it will impose new duties and taxes on smart phones (especially Apple products), leather goods, imported cars and the like. In doing so, Pakistan will no doubt fall foul of the WTO and this will turn out to be yet another hare-brained idea by our honourable Finance […]

The journey that Mr. Nawaz Sharif took going from the favourite ladla of the deep state to its most hated enemy in two installments – 1981-1999 and 2008-2014- may actually be shorter for Prime Minister Imran Khan. In my previous article, I had referred to His Excellency as the Fuhrer but on second thought, I […]

Recently the Government of Pakistan under Herr Imran Khan through NADRA added a fresh new oath to the Computerised National Identity Card forms to ensure that no Ahmadi would ever register as a citizen in this country. Till now Ahmadis had been able to register as citizens of Ahmadi faith simply by refusing to sign […]

The great tragedy of Islam in Pakistan is that it has found self styled champions in people who are so utterly dishonest and disreputable that they have in the process alienated the rational and reasonable Pakistani from Islam. One such dishonest and disreputable person is a former civil servant and now a TV show host. […]

At the outset one must ask Prime Minister Imran Khan this: Sure you want to make a Riyasat-e-Medina or establish a rightly guided caliphate, by all means do it but what is the point in ascribing to Jinnah these ideas when he never used any such idea ever? The 1943 session of the Muslim League […]

What had led to the partition of India has nuanced reasoning and to put the long story short, Jinnah had wanted a consociational Indian state where the Muslim minority would have an effective share in power. This scheme was unacceptable to the Congress and they called Jinnah’s bluff in a game of high stakes political […]

On the Higher Education Commission’s data base, one finds two PhD theses on Jinnah, one discussing his leadership skills and the other his brief time as the Governor General of Pakistan. Both are quite mediocre, badly researched and based on literature review of only a piddling subsection of the biographies on Mr Jinnah. It would […]

The poor performance of our successive parliaments when it comes to coming up with legislation that helps all Pakistanis regardless of gender, religion or ethnic origin is self-evident. If you take out the reserved seats for women and minorities, the makeup of the parliament, National Assembly and Senate combined, is majoritarian Muslim male. Thus the […]

Just before partition of India, the founding father of this country Mr Jinnah attempted to woo the Sikhs to the new state by offering them 40 percent guaranteed representation in Pakistan’s Armed Forces, Judiciary and civil services. He also offered them an autonomous region Patiala — within the Pakistani federation. If that was enough Jinnah […]