Tag: Bhutto
How Pakistan planned and prepared for the 1965 war against a...
Saleem Akhtar Malik l Planning and Preparation Force Ratios War plans are based on the threat assessment. Let us have a look at the relative force ratios...
Malala visits Pakistan for the first time in six years
News Analysis | Malala Yousafzai has come to visit Pakistan for the first time after six years. She arrived in Islamabad in the early hours...
PPP’s guarded approach to Nawaz’s confrontation with judiciary
News Analysis | Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari accused ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of creating deliberate confrontation between judiciary and...
I persuaded Benazir Bhutto against returning to Pakistan: friend
News Desk | Desmond de Silva, an old friend of former prime minister, the late Benazir Bhutto has revealed how he implored her not to...
Egoistic Nawaz replicates the Benazir case of 1998
News Analysis | In the post-indictment interview, Maryam Nawaz stated that ex-PM Nawaz Sharif is coming back to face the proceedings in accountability court. The...
Did Zardari’s ‘thug security’ cost Benazir Bhutto her life?
Ikram Sehgal | Those really guilty are shedding crocodile tears at the judgment pronounced in the Ms. Benazir Bhutto murder case while laughing themselves all...
Don’t pass the buck on Zia; political parties are far off...
Abdul Qayyum Khan Kundi l There were many talk shows, editorials and op-ed pieces about the martial law imposed on July 5th, 1977. There were...
Prime Minister Imran Khan?
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | This is a six part article which traces the phenomenal rise of PTI, the disillusionment that set in, internal party...
Is political instability rocking the Pakistani Boat?
Asif Haroon Raja | On October 12, 1999, a democratically elected government of PML-N was toppled by the military under Gen Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz Sharif...
The Devil inside every human invention…
Dr. Farid A. Malik | It’s the oldest fight in history. The age old idiom, ‘The devil is in the detail’ holds good for all manmade...
Bakhtawar Bhutto says “This is not Islam”; Ramazan bill attracts the...
The senate has recently passed a bill with which has attached severe punishments to eating and drinking in public during Ramazan. The bill is has...
Neither forgiven nor forgotten: Imran’s evolving strategy against Nawaz Sharif…
In an unprecedented move, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has announced that it will file a petition in the Supreme Court for the implementation of the 2012...
Judiciary of Pakistan: preserving democracy or saluting gangsters?
Ikram Sehgal | Governor Amir Muhammad Khan Kalabagh’s logic behind not closing down the red light area “Hiramandi” is very revealing, “If you ban them...
Quaid-e-Awam vs Kaptaan: ‘Andhi’ can only come from Lahore!
Farid A. Malik | It was November 1967; I stood face to face with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) at the YMCA Hall on the Mall....
‘Let Us Bury the Past, Not the Future’: Pakistan and Bangladesh
Ikram Sehgal | Time it is said heals all wounds. But in the case of Pakistan and Bangladesh, two countries that had buried the past;...
Has anyone been held accountable for the catastrophe that created Bangladesh
IKRAM SEHGAL | Despite the complex and demanding negotiations during the tumultuous days of March 1971, a positive outcome was possible and seemed near but...
China & Pakistan: Evolution of a Strategic Relationship that created CPEC...
Jamal Hussain| Much has been written about the ongoing Chinese Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and how its completion will provide a major boost to the...
2018 Elections will be pointless: without “major electoral reforms”
Farid Malik| If the next elections are held without major electoral reforms, it will be as futile an exercise as the ten elections held after...
Is PML-N a threat to democracy?
PML-N remains unbeatable in Punjab not because of its deeds but rather due to its misdeeds. Its manipulative mechanisms are well entrenched. It is...
Titanic of Pakistani Politics: PTI & PMLN; Upper Deck & Lower...
Dr Farid A. Malik | Most of you will remember the 1997 blockbuster by Producer and Director James Cameron. If you don't remember Cameron, you will...
