The smouldering current tension on the horizon of the Karachi is not only very ominous for the city, but also very alarming for the country. Though almost all the major parties of the city except Jamat e Islami and Tehrik e Islami are out of the government, the big guns like ANP, MQM and PPP [...]
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 [...]
In the NA-55 constituency, things are not well for the chairman of Awami Muslim League, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who was earlier a very close aide of Pervez Musharraf, the dictator.
Sheikh Rashid had been winning from this Rawalpindi area for more than 20 years, but then he left Nawaz Sharif and joined the dictator and he [...]
So at last the sneering former dictator Musharraf has announced that he wants to play his role with the help of people’s power and yes through democratic way. Who knows democracy and its ways better than the dictators?
Just after two years of his departure, Musharraf is once again ready to jump into the practical politics, [...]
They are as usual making deadlines and forecasting about the last-whistle times for the departure of the President Asif Ali Zardari. The story which everyone out of the power and popularity wants to tell is that the Pakistan People Party is disheartened and disintegrating fast and would soon be nobody.
Those predictions and false hopes were [...]
Pakistan’s former prime ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto went out of this world in unusual circumstances and as is expected in Pakistan, their parties declared them martyrs.
Ask from Ijazul Haq, son of former dictator General Ziaul Haq who died in plane crash, and Ijaz would call his father a martyr. From the ashes [...]
President Zardari Asif Ali Zardari announced some days ago that he was transferring formal control over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. That came as a surprise to many and many jumped to the conclusion that it showed the mounting pressure upon the presidency in the wake of NRO and the deteriorating [...]
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 [...]
Target killing in Karachi is going on while the coalition partners in the Sindh government are bashing and then forgiving each other. Common poor people are dying on the roads by unidentified marksmen, and yet the authorities are dumbfounded and silent.
Under Anti-Terrorism Act, the Sindh Government has given Rangers complete control for establishing peace in [...]
Forecast of Quaid-e-Azam about Pakistan with reference to Provincialism,
( 28 March,1948,Dhaka)
“If we begin to think of ourselves as Bengalis, Punjabis, Sindhis etc. first and Muslims and Pakistanis only incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate.”
Above forecast of Quaid-e-Azam was truly proved when in 1971 Pakistan disintegrated, and now still Pakistani nation is still going on [...]
