Some of us used to feel sorry for her back in the 1990s when we thought she was the victim of a “vast right wing conspiracy”. No doubt the...
Tag - Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan’s Commercial Liberal Mafia always takes part warmly in non-stop character-assassination campaign of Asif Ali Zardari and tries to...
PML N had capitulated to the establishment by the night of 6th January. This capitulation was done directly by Nawaz Sharif whose public...
The last #PPP government of 2008-13 created a wheat surplus with its strong policies on agriculture. Pakistani exports were booming during the last PPP...
The chattering class’ irrational blindness to avoid admitting Imran Khan Niazi’s lifelong corruption
The chattering class’ irrational blindness to avoid admitting Imran Khan Niazi’s lifelong corruption Civil society types are forever spineless in...
The way Imran Khan treated his own team immediately after winning the 1992 World Cup and the way he abused and went after his own former bowling...
Kindly reconstitute your core committees and take out your protest rallies. After your Loin Nawaz Sharif capitulated, you have become even more...
Irony – when political orphans who cannot even win a local council seat demand inter-party elections
The only “party” in Pakistan that has inter-party elections is Jamaat e Islami – because they are the King’s Party and the results are...
PML N’s confrontation strategy has always destabilized Pakistan. While the region is on fire, Pakistan can not afford reckless adventures cooked up in swanky...
In its 52 years of history, PPP has always stressed the parliamentary path. This is a path of legislation, power sharing, provincial autonomy and...
پی پی پی آرمی ایکٹ میں ترمیم کے معاملے میں بہت ہی مشکل پوزیشن میں کھڑی تھی-ایک طرف بنا مشاورت اور اپوزیشن کی جانب سے متفقہ قدم اٹھانے کے مسلم لیگ نواز نے پی ٹی...
پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کی 52 سالہ سیاسی تاریخ کو اٹھاکر دیکھا جائے تو جب کبھی پارلیمانی سیاست یا بغاوت کا سوال سامنے آیا تو اس کی اکثریت نے پارلیمانی راستے کا...
The 2008-13 PPP government of Yusuf Raza Gillani/Zardari/Raja Pervaiz signed the Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline. This was immediately overturned by...
In what has to be a case of deep irony and dark comedy, Ijaz ul Haq is filing a character defamation lawsuit against Hanif. Did General Zia ul...
South Asians Against Terrorism and for Human Rights – SAATH Forum has become perhaps last refuge of commercial liberal section of Hussain...
آرمی ایکٹ میں چیف آف آرمی اسٹاف کی تعیناتی کے حوالے سے سپریم کورٹ نے جب گیند واپس پارلیمنٹ کے کورٹ میں بھیجی تو اگلے روز میں اپنے سیاسی گرو اور منجھے ہوئے...
One is amused to see those ostensibly on the PML N dole, pathetically trying to defend why their PML N surrendered. Again. PML N’s politics are...
بے نظیر بھٹو 21 جون 1953ء کے دن کراچی میں پیدا ہوئیں۔ ان کے والد ذوالفقار علی بھٹو سندھی سنّی خاندان اور والدہ بیگم نصرت ایرانی کرد نژاد شیعہ اصفہانی خاندان...
12 years ago, to this day, we in Pakistan experienced the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto. While the country mourned, the elites revealed...
So far, I have seen mostly PPP friends highlight and condemn this portion of the judgement that calls for hanging Musharraf’s dead body in...
There are good things about this verdict and then there are also other ominous warnings. The good things are fairly obvious. Pakistan’s Judiciary finally...
As one types this, exactly 5 years ago, on this day and within hours of this time, one of the worst massacres in Pakistan’s history was...
پچھلے دنوں کلاس میں سٹوڈنٹس کے سامنے وائٹ کالر کرائم کی گُتھی سمجھاتے ہوئے مجھے کافی مُشکل پیش آئی کیونکہ ان کرائمز کی مثالیں بہت پیچیدہ ہوتی ہیں، آج کے بعد یہ...
MALIK RIAZ: A thinker I respect likened Malik Riaz to Robin Hood. This is fallacious thinking on many counts. Here are a few: – Robin Hood...
میرا ہمیشہ سے یہ موقف رہا کہ پاکستانی لبرل کیمپ میں کمرشل ازم، موقعہ پرستی، علمی بددیانتی اور آدھے سچ کو بیان کرنے کا رجحان غالب ہے۔ اور لبرل میں...
This is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari standing in solidarity with DAWN after its offices were surrounded by a pro (PTI) Government mob. DAWN is a...
On every topic, Niazi rhetoric is not just insufferable and smug. It is plain ludicrous. From failed economic promises to hijacking credit for...
The only leader who is standing up for these students is #BilawalBhuttoZardari. #ImranKhanNiazi justifies this excess and suppression. And the...
So an extension was given. Kind of. The PTI got a bloody nose and were cut down to size. For months, the PTI-MQM-GDA Niazi regime wanted to...
In the Byzantine power tussle between the two warring factions of Pakistan’s establishment, the People as always, end up with losing. Some of us...
Elitist Left posers demand Freedom from Former President Zardari – himself currently a political prisoner of the Niazi regime! Recently I...
میں تین دن لاہور رہا – تین دنوں میں مجھے آسمان پر چھائی سموگ اور اردگرد فضا میں پھیلے دھوئیں،اڑتی گردنے جہاں سینے کی انفیکشن میں مبتلا کردیا وہیں اس نے میرے سر...
For years, we were being lectured by Patwari liberals that their leader Nawaz Sharif was “anti establishment” and that Maryam Nawaz was the...
Pakistan’s establishment welcoming Sikhs is a good thing. We all wish they had allowed Benazir to do this 30 years ago when she wanted to...
یہ ڈان نیوز کی ہیڈ لائن ہے نواز لیگ حکومت کے دوران شائع ہونے والے ایک خبر کی لیکن میڈیا میں موجود نواز لیگ کے حامی اور لبرل جو سندھ سمیت دوسرے صوبوں میں ترقی...
Most Pakistanis don’t want Nawaz Sharif to die because of medical negligence. But we are not the ones dishonestly propping up a cowardly crony...
نواز شریف علاج کے لیے بیرون ملک جارہے ہیں، مریم نواز گھر پر ہیں اور شہباز شریف بھی طبی معائنے کے لیے برطانیہ جائیں گے جبکہ مسلم لیگ نواز کی چار رکنی کمیٹی...
مولانا فضل الرحمان فرماتے ہیں کہ وہ اور ان کی پارٹی ترقی پسند ہے کیونکہ اس نے صوبائی خودمختاری اور اٹھارویں ترمیم کی حمایت کی- وہ عورتوں کے ‘جائز’...
So some of you may have heard about the anti-regime protests going on in Pakistan. Like everything, it is complex. The PTI Government has been a...
I am not in favor of PPP supporting JUI F march. At the same time, It is disgusting to see opportunists like #JibranNasir and his toadies resorting to fraud...
