Tag: Panama
Is PML-N going to face a leadership crisis?
News Analysis| Embattled Opposition leader in the National Assembly Mr. Shahbaz Sharif and his son Mr. Hamza Shahbaz, opposition leader in Punjab Assembly, are going...
My Fundamental rights are being violated, complains elder Sharif
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has once again complained that his basic rights, as a citizen of Pakistan, were being violated....
PM Abbasi and Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir lash out at NAB
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday lashed out at National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for launching a probe against ousted Prime Minister...
PM Abbasi Echoes ‘Aliens’ Syndrome, Gets Reprimanded By ECP
News Analysis | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, recently repeated the claims once made by the embattled Sharif family. These claims confirmed...
Shehbaz Sharif’s anger against NAB, SC is justified amid Punjab’s scrutiny
News Analysis | Shebaz Sharif, the Chief Minister of Punjab, seems to have been roiled by the activism of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the...
Imran Khan’s regular absence in key assembly sessions in worrisome
News Analysis | Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), failed, once again, to turn up for the sixth and last budget meeting, presented...
Ahsan Iqbal’s outburst against Chief Justice: Just another agonized PML-N member
News Analysis | Ahsan Iqbal, Federal Interior Minister, is the latest member of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz to lose his temper while discussing the judicial...
Nawaz’ contemptuous remarks make sense and so does superior Judiciary’s hesitation
News Analysis | Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is continuing with his anti-judiciary campaign, despite a ban by the Lahore High Court...
LHC’s ban on anti-judiciary speeches is real despite misinterpretation
News Analysis | Soon after the Supreme Court of Pakistan winded up a Suo Moto notice regarding the Lahore High Court’s verdict over the ban...
Nawaz Sharif may create the perception of winning public front, but...
News Analysis | Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, seem to be wading through one of the toughest patches of his political career,...
Can hypocrisy and intervention go side by side?
Jacob G Hornberger | Whatever bombs Donald Trump decides to use against Syria, one thing is for certain: the U.S. government has already dropped enough...
Is FATF a tool reflecting US, UK hypocrisy?
Waqas Shabbir | United Kingdom was an ally of the US when both countries put forward the motion to put Pakistan on the terror watch-list...
Why criticism on Khan’s marriage is unfair
Waqas Shabbir | Amid feverish media speculations, Imran Khan announced his marriage with a spiritual adviser - Bushra Wattoo in a simple- Nikkah ceremony held...
Zainab’s father lambasts AJK PM for his immature statements
News Desk | http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6daihf Haji Ameen, father of little Zainab condemned the immature statement of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider about the...
NAB files review petition against SC for rejecting to reopen Hudaibiya...
News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC)’s rejection of reopening the Hudaibiya Paper...
Astrologers claim Shehbaz, not Imran will be Prime Minister in 2018
News Analysis | Scores of astrologers and palmists have predicted that Shehbaz Sharif holds bright chances of becoming the Prime Minister in the next general...
Pakistan: Dethroning of a King by a court
Saad Rasool | The ongoing Panama Saga – which started in the Spring of 2016, when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released series...
More PML-N lawmakers leaving the party piles the pressure on Sharif...
News Analysis | On Tuesday, five PML-N lawmakers submitted resignations to their respective assembly secretariats in protest over government inaction against Punjab Law Minister Rana...
What is Nawaz Sharif’s “Narrative”?
Jan Achakzai | The Panama judgment was the red line for the ex-Prime Minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS), to cross by an institution, when it...
Exploring “Sharifism”
Raja Waqas Shabbir | Get ready world, after Capitalism and Marxism; we have a new entry, "Sharifism”. While addressing a massive gathering at college ground-Abbottabad,...
Justice Khosa excuses himself from Hudaibiya case & sets a standard...
News Analysis | Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, on Monday, recused himself from the hearings for the reopening of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills file, on the...
Will India resort to war with Pakistan?
Asif Haroon Raja| In the wake of a constantly deteriorating security situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) owing to heightened turbulence, exasperated and outraged Indian...
Momentum of Sharif family accountability increases; Hudaibiya scandal resurrected
News Analysis | Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered the formation of a Supreme Court (SC) bench, on Friday, to hear a...
Supreme Court issues detailed verdict of review petition; refuses to give...
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan issued a 23-page detailed verdict on the review petitions filed by the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif against...
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...
Former PM Shaukat Aziz finds his name in the “Paradise Papers”
News Analysis | Former prime minister, Shaukat Aziz found his name in the list of people in the Paradise Papers, released by the International Consortium...
ICIJ to rock the world today with the “Bermuda Papers”
News Analysis | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists( ICIJ) is all set to release the "Bermuda Papers" tonight. This was announced on the ICIJ...
Bailable arrest warrants issued for Nawaz
News Analysis | The accountability court on Thursday issued bailable arrest warrants for the former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif for his failure to appear in...
Tearing down fears about the rise of China
Mudassir Saeed Laghari| This July witnessed an intense level of escalated tensions, what came to be known as Doklam Dispute, between China and India. After...
Dar faces NAB for the 7th time; will he resign now?
News Analysis | Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar is undergoing a trial in an accountability court after appearing for the seventh hearing of the graft reference...
Sharif Family Corruption Trial: What is the role of Monitoring Judge?
News Analysis| On Friday, Oct 13, main opposition party, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf demanded the Monitoring Judge, of Supreme Court, Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan take notice of...
Political parties cross swords over the appointment of NAB chief
News Analysis l The government and the opposition have started consultations for the appointment of new National Accountability Bureau chief. The new head of the...
Nawaz versus Shahbaz: A battle for influence within PML-N
News Analysis | Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif advised his brother and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seek the advice of party workers rather...
Democracy under threat from Nawaz Sharif?
News Analysis | On Tuesday, ousted Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif was re-elected the president of PML-N, standing unopposed at the Convention Centre in Islamabad, reclaiming...
Will US be able to sustain its global dictatorship?
Jacob G. Hornberger | On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that...
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...
