One should give credit to the strategists of the Pakistan People’s Party who carved out a fine tactical approach to leash in their allies with some master strokes of aggressions, threats and warnings.
MQM was actually playing angels on various issues. They were enjoying the power, perks and privileges and yet they were criticizing the government. [...]
The present regime has done well to introduce the democracy in the Gilgit Baltistan area, which is one of the poorest and under-developed areas of the world, and most of the people doesn’t even know about the modern world. As this area is going for the elections, there is much hope among the masses, and [...]
Gilgit-Baltistan’s first election after attaining the province-like status is set to produce a hung assembly. Major mainstream political parties are likely to get a small part of the pie while a handful of seats would go to independent candidates.
The 12 November election is generating intense campaigns. The PML-N, the PML-Q, the MQM, the PPP, the [...]
Nawaz Sharif cannot go out anywhere in the province where his party rules, and he has reluctantly gone to the Gilgit Baltistan area for the election campaign. He hasn’t gone to Sindh, Balochistan and Kashmir for a long time now, and his rarely goes out to NWFP and Islamabad.
How he supposed to be a nationa [...]
