Why media is tossing the issue of Shahbaz Sharif’s statement is not surprising and its not surprising too as why the PPP, PML-Q, ANP and MQM are also making such a hue and cry. They rarely get a chance these days to tease PML-N. Media needs some issue and this is the latest and most [...]
Activists of the PML-N and the PML-Q clashed with each other during the election campaign for PP-111, Gujrat, by-polls here on Sunday.
MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed and other PML-N leaders, along with party workers, were passing through the Main Muslim Bazaar in connection with the election campaign of the [...]
In 2008, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed got some 15000 votes, while the Aamir Fida Paracha of Pakistan People Party got away with 35000 votes. Javed Hashmi of PML-N won by taking some 76000 votes.
Then in next by election in this same constituency, Sheikh Rashid was nowhere and Haji Pervaiz of PML-N won by taking just 25000 [...]
Though this is the 21st century but i see nations like Pakistan threatening to enter stone age unless there is some miracle. At the moment, economic growth seems to be stagnant and we have entered a time and age where there is no water or electric power. There seems to be a shortage of everything [...]
The last two to three days have been very encouraging for Pakistan People’s Party’s position in the current situation where some ‘elements ‘ were hoping of ‘good news’ soon. Two to three supportive developments have ‘spoiled’ the mood of the ‘well wishers’ of the President Zardari and PPP. Ali Ahmed Kurd, leader of the lawyers’ [...]
Misery surely acquaints a man with strange bedfellows and the same misery compels the bed fellows to change the beds a the spur of the moment. National Reconciliation Ordinance, a dead horse for some and a ticking time bomb for many, has sparked the national politics.
The truth is that if even PPP tables the NRO, [...]
The host and the cameraman and the whole technical team and the spectators across the Pakistan and abroad were shocked, stunned and baffled and then excited as the Pakistan political ladies exposed each other. Kashmala Tariq, a fast friend of Humuyun Akhtar Khan, another politician called Firdous Ashiq Awan of PPP a “lota”.
Firdous Ashiq was [...]
After getting assurances from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that no one is going to hang him, former dictator Pervez Musharraf is also checking his chances to actively take part in politics of Pakistan, first from London and then if the response gets warm, from Pakistan. He has tasted the power, and like his predecessors, [...]
Looking at current situation of lawyers-media clashes and lawyers fierce attitudes now a day, I feel compelled to write on whole lawyers’ movement that Pakistanis have seen and experienced during last few years, from a different perspective. Chief justice Iftikhar M. Chaudhry was suspended by Musharraf on March 9th, 2007. Thanks to our “courageous” print [...]
This was 14 August, our Independence day. Day passed hung between despair and hope—in tears and laughter, full of emotions and enthusiasm. I was thinking that Pakistan is an Ideological State. The theorist set forth the rules that in ideological states it is a system of beliefs or ideas which, operates through “ideological State apparatuses” [...]
