CM’s self-employment scheme – a success story
Today, more families of Punjab will join a journey to the prosperity and self-respect, set for them by their loving Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the form of CM's Self-Employment…
The PTI’s Shahbaz Sharif
There is only one requirement for Imran Khan’s pick for the chief minister of Punjab: s/he has to be better than Shahbaz Sharif. Better administration, better optics, and better at…
Lahore’s ruin at Shahbaz Sharif’s hands
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has struck a blow for the preservation of the Punjab capital's heritage and against the incremental tendency of the province's PML-N government, and especially Chief…
Of CMs, roads and destinies
Guess what CM Shahbaz Sharif is tweeting these days: “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Well, considering that the CM is obsessed…
Season of the likeminded
Certain terms typically belong to our political arena and are not heard anywhere else. The ‘likeminded’ and the ‘forward bloc’ are the twin brothers constituted by politicians having identical thinking…
A system for the people
The suggestion in some circles to replace the current democratic system with that of a presidential one seems to have triggered a debate about parliamentary politics. Sceptics believe that the…
Irredeemable ordeal
In first week of March this year, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar passed instructions to relevant departments to improve traffic conditions for the public. While emphasising upon removing congestion on…
State of doom
Half a century ago, noted philosopher Professor Alfred North Whitehead, prophesised: “In the conditions of modern life, the rule is absolute; the race which does not value trained intelligence, is…
Filibustering and resigning
The Advocate General of Punjab (AGP) during Shahbaz Sharif's previous tenure as Chief Minister (CM), Khawaja Haris is now defending former PM Nawaz Sharif and his family in the PanamaGate…
A new conflict
No one with even a modicum of political consciousness will disagree with Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa’s assertion that we as a nation are confronting a hybrid conflict where the…
