Tag: Illegal
Foreign content hijacking Pakistani channels
News Desk | On Sunday actors, directors and producers from Pakistan's drama industry protested against the illegitimate running of foreign content on Pakistani TV channels...
Dr. Miftah Ismail appointed Finance Minister just hours before presenting budget
News Analysis | In an unprecedented move, just hours before the announcement of the 2018-19 budget, the Government of Pakistan has appointed Dr. Miftah Ismail,...
Why did Bilawal label government’s full-year budget illegal and a pre-poll...
News Analysis | Echoing the concerns shared by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman...
PM Abbasi raised voice to ensure justice for people of occupied...
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi has raised the voice of people residing in occupied lands and stressed the utmost need for...
Catalonia’s Puigdemont granted bail in Germany
AFP | Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont was set to walk out of German jail early Friday, as judges freed him on bail after rejecting...
Military ‘terrorization’ of borders
Jacob G Hornberger | Immigration statists are celebrating today! Their icon, President Trump, has granted them their long-held wish. He has just announced that he...
Trump orders National Guard to secure Mexican border
AFP | US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the National Guard to deploy to America's southern border, ratcheting up pressure on Mexico and taking...
Gathering dark clouds: What should Pakistan do?
Asif Haroon Raja | Muslims of East Bengal were the worst affected region during the British rule and had ardently yearned for Pakistan to free...
Axact back in the limelight over fake degrees scandal
News Analysis | Pakistan based IT company Axact came back into the limelight after the BBC exposed a fake degrees scandal on Tuesday. The BBC...
BJP discrimination continues as Muslim dies in police custody
News Analysis | Tension prevails in India's northeastern state of Assam after violent protests engulfed the town of Dhula, some 100 km away from the...
Goa CM stance on beef highlights BJP’s double standards
News Analysis | In an apparent display of double standards, the BJP leaders of Goa and Kerala have promised a supply of beef to their...
Trump creating conditions for America’s waning influence
Junaid Ali Malik | There is a national debate going on in America over the Trump Administration’s foreign policy. The scholars and analysts are seriously...
Supreme Court makes Orange Line Train decision
News Analysis | On Friday, the Supreme Court was supposed to make its decision on the construction of the Orange Line Train project in Lahore....
Muslims in Asia protest against Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Reuters | Several thousand protesters in Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia rallied on Friday to condemn the U.S. decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as...
Paradise Leaks reveals the corruption and criminality of capitalism
Jaweria Waheed | The Paradise Leaks follow as a sequel to last year’s Panama Papers and offer an unusually vivid and skewed view of the...
Land mafia taking over Edhi properties
Nida Luqman | The Edhi properties is a non-profit, social welfare program in Pakistan, founded by Abdul Sattar Edhi. Abdul Sattar Edhi was a Pakistani philanthropist,...
PML-N’s controversial Elections Act challenged in LHC
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has challenged a provision of the Elections Act, 2017 before the Lahore High Court. The provision in question...
Indian minister vows to conquer AJK
News Analysis | Minister of state in PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh on Thursday claimed that there was no “Kashmir issue except taking back Azad Kashmir...
The illegality of Trump’s ‘Afghanistan war’
Jacob G. Hornberger | When President Trump attributed his flip-flop on Afghanistan to his team of military generals, who informed him that a withdrawal from...
Restoration of peaceful life in Syria
Sophie Mangal | According to the statements of local authorities, Zabadani resort town in Damascus province, which is located 25 kilometers from the Syrian capital,...
The LNG scam?
Ikram Sehgal | Vide their milestone judgment SCMR773 in 2012 the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) canceled all the contracts of Rental Power Plants (RPPs)....
India’s Supreme Court denies abortion for 10 year old girl
Last Friday, the Supreme Court of India refused to allow an abortion for a 10-year-old girl who is at least 28 weeks’ pregnant. The...
Growing hate for Russia in the U.S after Trump’s victory
Jacob G. Hornberger | There is so much I just don’t get about the anti-Russia brouhaha that has the Washington establishment, the mainstream press, the...
Yogi Adityanath’s First step: Bans Muslims from Selling Meat
Yogi Adityanath, the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, who is known for his vitriolic anti-Muslim language, has started in his first...
Trump pushes conspiracy theory that ‘millions’ voted illegally for Clinton
President-elect Donald Trump spent Sunday ridiculing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for joining a recount effort in Wisconsin, ending his day on Twitter by parroting...
