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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…