Appellate Tribunal allows Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to contest polls

News Analysis | Appellate Tribunal (AT)  has allowed former Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to contest election from NA 53. Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kyani...

Punjab Cabinet approves interim budget

News Analysis | The provincial cabinet gave approval to four month budget of the fiscal year 2018-19. All the decisions are being made with the consultation...

PML-N leader questions gross nepotism within the ranks of his own party

News Analysis | Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Islamabad chapter, General Secretary Shujaur Rehman has challenged selection of ex Chief Minister Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif as PML-N...

The deadly loop of circular debt haunts power sector under PMLN’s watch

News Analysis | The former government of PML(N) has failed to recover the dues of Rs 860 billion from the defaulters of power companies. The government...

Dear PPP: ‘Pann chewing Karanchi’ or Karachi, problems remain the same

News Analysis | The former chief minister Sindh, Murad Ali Shah, lambasted former Punjab chief minister and president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) - Shahbaz...

Nawaz, self-declared defender of democracy, remains absent from election process

News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that ‘rigged’ and ‘manipulated’ elections are not desirable for the development of democracy in...

PTI demands arrests of Ex Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, for corruption

News Analysis | The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has demanded the caretaker government and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to arrest ex Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Will NAB’s red warrants bring ‘penthouse pirates’ to justice?

News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau is contemplating a move to request the interior ministry to start the process to issue red warrants for...

Who wants to blow up NAB headquarters for doing its job: asks Accountability Chief

News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal says that the watchdog is receiving threats that its headquarters would be...

Imran Khan all set to woo voters in Mianwali after acceptance of nomination papers

News Analysis | An appellate tribunal of the Lahore High Court has set aside the decision by Returning Officer (RO)  rejecting Imran Khan’s nomination papers...

Bangladesh’s democratic erosion: how democracy assistance can help

Steve Cima | Bangladesh has drawn global attention as it struggles to manage the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by nearly one million forcibly displaced Rohingya...

Kashmir: India’s Human Rights violations from “pellet guns” to “Killer gangs”?

Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) has been dreadful for three decades. The Indian intelligence agencies have been running...