Tag: GHQ
Interior ministry puts ex-spymaster Durrani’s name on Exit Control List
News Analysis | The interior ministry on Tuesday placed the name of embattled former director general (DG) Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani, on Exit Control...
The presence of Aliens in Pakistan’s politics
Waqas Shabbir | Ousted Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, claims to be fighting aliens, who he is alleging, played a key role in his political ascendancy. Nawaz...
Qamar Bajwa to Iran: Cooperation necessary for regional peace
News Analysis | Foreign Minister of Iran, Javad Zarif called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters (GHQ) on...
Clash of titans: The political battle for NA-125
Dr. Farid A Malik | Hamid Khan of PTI and Khawaja Saad Rafiq of PML-N fought the political battle for NA-125. The outcome was disputed...
Pakistan Army contingent to be deployed to Saudi Arabia
News Analysis | Pakistan Army is sending a contingent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on a training and advice mission according to a...
Chief of Army Staff meets Ambassadors of Iran and Turkey
News Analysis | The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa met Mr Ishan Mustafa Yurdakul, newly appointed Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan and...
Why speculations over the Corps Commanders Conference should stop ?
News Analysis | Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired a Corps Commanders Conference on Tuesday at GHQ Rawalpindi. The meeting between...
Will Imran Khan lose 2018 elections?
Raja Waqas Shabbir | In recent times, image rebuilding has been a problem for Imran Khan. Despite losing NA-120 by-elections, PTI did make inroads into...
NRO: What it was and what it became?
Saleem Akhtar Malik l National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) stands prominently in the cliché ridden Pakistani society. Unmindful of the grammatical connotations, our political jargon has...
Nawaz Sharif: A dictator in disguise
Ahad Tariq | The world witnessed a smooth democratic transition in Pakistan’s Prime Minister Office when Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of Pakistan Muslim League (N) was sworn...
Morality and misplaced loyalty
Ikram Sehgal | Misplaced loyalty for corrupt individuals is not the only betrayal of the community but complicity in their crimes, it lies at the...
GHQ may save the day for Nawaz !
Shaukat Qadir | Soon after the investigations of the JIT began to extend to, virtually, the entire Sharif family and became increasingly intensive, rumors began...
The real owner of Avenfield Apartments: Hussain Nawaz or Maryam Safdar?
Panama Papers were released on 20th of April 2016 by International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ). Now, the Panama Case has reached its culmination...
The Al Capone formula?
Ikram Sehgal | This week the Panama case entered its last, and possibly decisive round. On May 16, 2016, the PM had unequivocally stated in...
America’s on again – off again romance with freedom movements
Saleem Akhtar Malik l Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the US gives many reasons to the Indians to chuckle and bask in the warmth of...
Ashraf Ghani’s blame game continues: What are Pakistan’s options?
Imtiaz Gul | Ashraf Ghani’s charged Pakistan-focused speech before the Kabul Process Summit on June 6 in the presence of a Pakistani delegation left quite...
Will Pakistan execute Jadhav before the final verdict?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The initial reports from Pakistan regarding the International Court of Justice’s interim order on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case give a sinking feeling. If...
A glimpse of the past: Was Pakistan ready to respond to...
Samson Simon Sharaf | When Narasimha Rao, the Indian National Congress (INC) Prime Minister, called for snap elections in 1996, it was time for Pakistan...
Are the people ready for another long-march against dictatorship?
Dr. Farid A. Malik | Having lived through two movements (1977 and 2007) and getting ready for the third (2017), I thought it was a...
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...
Civil-Military relations on social media: Has Pakistan turned into a laughing...
Imtiaz Gul | Pakistan’s state institutions have yet to learn the art of strategic communication. The confessional video statement of the once-dreaded TTP spokesperson, Ehsanullah...
GHQ meeting reaffirms pledges to defeat hostile agencies
A corps commanders’ meeting was held in GHQ on Thursday. The military commanders pledged to defeat the designs of hostile agencies through ‘whole of...
Will a NATO rethink on Afghanistan achieve more?
Imtiaz Gul| Are we seeing a US-led NATO rethink on Afghanistan and Pakistan underway? With the Indian policy of “isolating” Pakistan having outlived its shelf...
Who is going to be Nawaz Sharif’s new Army Chief?
News Analysis | Nov 23, 2016 Who will be Pakistan’s next Army Chief? This question is on the minds of political pundits from Islamabad to...
