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PM Khan Vs Gen Ziaul Haq

PM Khan vs Gen Ziaul Haq

The big fear in the first half of 2018 was that there would be no election. Somehow, someone, somewhere would find an excuse to delay the election. The conduct of…

Confused agendas

The amount of confusion surrounding what the PTI and Imran Khan are precisely standing for continues to envelop the political thinking of the country. There is one point of view…

Imran Khan vs Ziaul Haq?

Some of the more effusive opponents of the current regime are prone to exaggeration. A most amusing bit of hyperventilation is when some claim with great confidence that the current…

Politics of generational change

Never before had we seen such an exceptional send off to prison by party enthusiasts than the way former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sent this week with love to…

An Officer And A Gentleman

An officer and a gentleman

I was walking towards the School of Physical Fitness (SPF) run by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), along with my uncle who coached the PAF hockey team there when I…

The Way To Genuine Democracy

The way to genuine democracy

In my previous articles I have advocated the need to switch to a presidential form of democracy. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah realised during his lifetime that the parliamentary system of…

Can’t We Go Back To The Pre-Ziaul Haq Days?

Can’t we go back to the pre-Ziaul Haq days?

The 1977 movement against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a calamity and the subsequent martial law, the path to which was paved by that benighted movement, was a catastrophe. Both events,…

The General And His Men

The general and his men

By now the name of Gen Ziaul Haq has practically become a metaphor for the darkest decade in Pakistan’s history. The patronage of militant groups may have a longer history,…

The Testimony Of A General

The testimony of a general

Part - I Lt-Gen Abdul Majid Malik passed away at age 96 in his native Chakwal on June 3, 2016. Among officers senior to Ziaul Haq, Malik was the one…

Legends Of The Mandate

Legends of the mandate

So someone has blown the whistle on high-flying beneficiaries of offshore companies/holdings. And among the lucky souls are our very own scions of the Mandate: the two sons, Hussain and…