Tag: Pakistani politics
The end of PML-N and PPP
Ajaz ul Haque | The Irony of Ironies - a former Prime Minister is sent to prison for corruption and a JIT serves a damning...
Who & who are fighting Imran Khan?
Haider Raza Mehdi | Just look at the enemies surrounding Imran, the Supreme Court, NAB and the Army! Nawaz Sharif, Asif Zardari, Asfandyar Wali, Achakzai, Fazal,...
Food businesses encourage customers to vote on 25th July
News Desk | The General elections 2018 are scheduled on 25th July and people are eagerly waiting to witness a peaceful transition of a democratic...
NAB contemplates on airlifting Nawaz, Maryam from airport to Adiala Prison
News Desk | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to air-lift former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz from airport to...
Shehbaz Sharif presents PML-N’s manifesto; offers promises and hope
News Analysis | Pakistan is all set to hold the general elections on July 25, 2018. Political parties are persistently working on their respective strategies...
PML-N all set to grant ticket to a convicted murderer
News Analysis | Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentary board has apparently approved the ticket for the convicted murderer from Kotla to contest in the upcoming...
Workers protest infront of Imran Khan’s residence; police, rangers deployed
News Analysis | The capital administration authority has made a request to the Interior Ministry for the deployment of rangers at the residence of Pakistan...
Nawaz claims that July deadline in NAB cases can hamper party’s...
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday claimed that Supreme Court’s decision to extend the deadline for one month to wrap up the...
SC dismisses petition seeking Sheikh Rashid’s disqualification
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday announced its verdict in favor of Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Ahmed Rashid in the misdeclaration of...
“Seasonal birds” in Pakistan’s political arena
Farid A Malik | ‘Khooti Rahi Bur Thalay’ means “the donkey remained under the tree.” the first time I heard this Punjabi proverb was in...
Abbasi calls oil and gas sector a great achievement of PMLN...
News Analysis | On Wednesday, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi praised his government for overcoming challenges and making revolutionary progression in the oil and gas...
PM Abbasi asks for a national dialogue on civil-military relations
News Analysis | The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has successfully completed its tenure of five years despite all political and economic challenges the party had...
Under trial to exert pressure on Nawaz, alleges Maryam
News Analysis | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, on Tuesday, said she and her father have been dragged into fake corruption cases...
Nawaz Sharif takes credit for making Pakistan an atomic power: issues...
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif once again informed the nation about his contributions for Pakistan. Nawaz was speaking at an event...
Amid internal grouping, PTI to kick-start awarding tickets
News Analysis | The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has announced on Sunday that party will start distributing the tickets on May 31. PTI which is considered favorite to win...
Come n’ save me, before I fall apart
Waqas Shabbir | A picture of Shehbaz which went viral in the social media, which reminds one of Arash’s famous hit: I’m so lonely broken angel, I’m...
PML-N denounces PTI’s first 100-day Plan
News Analysis | Reacting sourly to the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) ambitious agenda to change policies in the first 100-days of governance , the ruling Pakistan...
World Bank refutes media claims of money laundering allegations against Nawaz
News Analysis | World Bank has categorically denied the reports floating in media regarding “world Bank’s Remittances and Migration Report of 2016, which focus on...
Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister: Who & How?
Kanwar M Dilshad | The formal process of choosing the caretaker prime minister kicked off in mid-April, following a meeting between the Prime Minister Shahid...
MQM: Existential Crisis or Cross Roads into the Unknown?
Dr. Moeed Prizada | MQM-Pakistan’s lackluster performance in the Senate Elections of March 3, 2018, has sent shock waves across Pakistani politics. Dr. Farogh Naseem,...
Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan’s Iron Lady
News Desk | Pinki as she was known to her father, became at the age of 35, the first woman to become Prime Minister of...
Is PTI’s future as a political entity hanging in a balance?
News Desk | Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar is examining the cases of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan and the Secretary-General Jahangir...
Has Imran Khan kicked-off his campaign against Asif Ali Zardari?
News Analysis | Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan has once again lashed out at the top leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),...
Khawaja Asif: Nawaz Sharif is being punished for wanting friendship with...
In a session at the Asia Society in New York, USA, Khawaja Asif, Foreign minister, stated that Nawaz Sharif staked his political career for...
CPEC: Is the sovereignty of Pakistan being compromised?
James M. Dorsey | A leaked long-term plan for China’s massive $56 billion investment in Pakistan, projects the goals of the Beijing’s One Belt, One Road initiative...
Was Ambassador Haqqani implementing the policy or making it?
Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan | Very interesting facts have come out in open since our erstwhile ambassador to the United States, Mr. Husain Haqqani, wrote...
Watchers responses to General Musharraf’s debut on Bol TV
Former President and a retired general of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, has chosen media as his post retirement career with weekly show ‘Sab Se Pehle...
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...
Panama Papers: Why ‘Commission’ should be rejected?
Moeed Pirzada | Panama Cat is out of the bag! PM Nawaz gave his ‘Commission of Enquiry’ that will or can investigate everyone ‘rich’ in...
Off floods, lion & the monkey…!
Moeed Pirzada | Off Floods, Lion & the Monkey:- Once upon a time a Lion was going on vacations; Monkeys demanded that since they have...