Tag: Dawn Leaks
Info wars against Pakistan: What should be our counter-strategy? – Saad...
Saad Rasool | Over the past ten days, the local and international media (especially the social media) has been abuzz with talk of Finance Minister...
LHC issues bailable arrest warrants for PM Abbasi in high treason...
News Analysis | The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a bailable arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for failing to appear...
Stephen Sackur jolted Dawn’s CEO Hameed Haroon: reality behind ‘impartial’ media...
News Analysis | Globalization has made journalism an interesting and equally challenging profession for journalists and media house owners. The latest interview of Hameed Haroon,...
Thank you Nawaz Sharif for showing your real colors
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi| If anyone had any doubts about this man, Nawaz Sharif's sanity and desperation to save his wealth and from going to...
Imran open to Chaudhry Nisar joining PTI
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has invited the ostracized Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar to join his party while...
Ch. Nisar says he won’t work under “juniors” and threatens to...
Former Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar threatened the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that he will make the Dawn Leaks report public if the party doesn’t...
Was Nawaz condemning or defending Trump’s Tweet?
News Analysis | The deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed a press conference today in Punjab House Islamabad. The apparent purpose of the press conference...
Nawaz Sharif: hungry for power at all cost
Shiffa Yousafzai | They say all is well that ends well but for Nawaz Sharif and Co., it never ends well. Nawaz and his Unhappy Endings Term #...
Will technology help give Pakistan free & fair elections?
Yasser Awan | PTI (Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf ) has lost NA-120 election, as predicted by many political analysts. The constituency has long been a...
Spat between Nisar and Rashid spells trouble for PML-N
News Analysis | Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Pervaiz Rashid's criticism of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar on Friday has caused quite a stir inside...
Accountability or regime change?
Raza Rumi| Another déjà vu moment is knocking at our doors. The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on the Panama Leaks case implicating the...
Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
Ikram Sehgal | The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions...
Nawaz’s Machiavellian politics behind Nisar’s new found love for the Army?
News Analysis | On Tuesday, the Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, defending the government’s drive against social media activists, said the government would not...
The battle at Hague: Is India trapped in its self-woven net?
Asif Haroon Raja | Pakistan is on the hit list of India, Afghanistan, and the USA supported by NATO and Israel since 2002. The enemies...
Crackdown on social media draws ire from all quarters
On Saturday, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested 5 social media activists and brought them in for questioning. The 5 individuals were linked with...
Pakistan Army: The hope that got shattered
Saad Rasool | The Dawn Leaks issue has fizzled out, almost as inexplicably as it arose. And, in the aftermath, a significant fraction of Pakistanis...
Dawn leaks and ISPR’s sensible move
Raza Rumi| Pakistan’s military leadership, by issuing its latest statement on the Dawn Leaks issue through the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), has done the democratic...
Nawaz-Jindal meeting: Friendship, diplomacy, or something else?
Marriyum Aurangzeb, State Minister for Information has clarified newspaper reports earlier in the day that said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of...
Everything turns legit under the banner of ‘preserving democracy’
Ikram Sehgal | Such is the terror of possible retribution by those in governance that even a man of AD Khawaja’s conscience and inherent integrity...
How Dawn Leaks ruined Pakistan Army’s credibility
GVS Analysis | On May 10th 2017, the nation witnessed a historic compromise between the civil and military establishment over the “Dawn Leaks” issue. In...
ISPR’s new clarification: Saving democracy or compromising national security?
Amid speculations of widening rifts between the civilian and military leadership over Dawn Leaks, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Wednesday stated that the...
Government sticking to its guns: Dawn leaks matter resolved
UPDATE: The ISPR has released a statement proclaiming that it withdraws its previous tweet rejecting Government's notification on Dawn leaks. It has further stated that the...
Dawn leaks scandal nearing its resolution?
“Notification on Dawn Leak is incomplete and not in line with recommendations by the Inquiry Board. Notification is rejected,” According to sources, the Punjab...
Dawn Leaks: Government’s next cover-up strategy?
Ikram Sehgal | Facing the storm unleashed by the leaking of the Cyril Almeida story, “Act Against Militants or Face International Isolation, Civilians Tell Military,” the...
Dawn Leaks notification: Is the PM side-stepping from real case?
Imtiaz Gul | Government’s actions based on the JIT report on Dawn Leaks (dismissal of two technocrats) has unfortunately resuscitated the latent fault lines in...
Tariq Fatemi Rejects Inquiry Committee’s Allegation; Implications?
Tariq Fatemi, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, who has been forced out, apparently due to his role in "Dawn Leaks" has categorically rejected...
Govt. to release ‘operative part’ of Dawn Leaks inquiry
The government has decided to make public the ‘operative part’ of the report submitted by the inquiry committee on the “ Dawn leaks ”...
BREAKING: Rao Tehseen to take Nawaz Govt. to court over dismissal...
Principal Information Officer (PIO) Rao Tehseen has stated that he will challenge the findings of the Dawn Leaks inquiry commission in court. He said...
The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again…?
Najma Minhas| The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again, following the events of Saturday, 29th of April. The inquiry into the “Dawn Lies*”, at...
Why DG ISPR’s Tweet saves the Army?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery| In a tweet, the Director General ISPR, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor termed the notification on Dawn Leaks as "incomplete" and not...
ISPR bombshell rocks PML-N establishment
On Saturday, in a tweet by DG ISPR, the Army rejected the notification issued, earlier the same day, by the Prime Minister’s office regarding...
Clandestine Indian visit sparks outcry
On Wednesday, TV news anchor Arshad Sharif reported a rumor that was circulating in Islamabad that a 3 member delegation had flown in from...
Will the DAWN leaks Commission report find the actual ‘Leak’ ?
The interior ministry has confirmed that the Dawn Leaks inquiry report would be officially submitted on Wednesday, to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and then...
Panama JIT: Has Army been trapped?
Moeed Pirzada | On Monday, Pakistan Army, pledged to play its role in the Panama Investigations, by participation in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) as...
Corps Commanders Conference discussed “Dawn Leaks”: Importance?
ISPR Press Release issued after the 200th Corps Commanders’ conference held in GHQ on Thursday,March 9, 2017, mentioned that the issue of Dawn leaks...
PM Nawaz’s appointment of new Army Chief: Significance & Challenges
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on 26th November, appointed Lt. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Inspector General Training & Evaluation, as Pakistan Army’s 16th Chief...
