Pakistan has always been a player at the global stage since its emergence as an independent country in 1947. Unfortunately after the demise of founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, his colleagues quickly tried to grab their booty considering this country as a reward for the combined struggle of residents and migrants. Muslim League wanted the [...]
In the quest of meaning of leader I sometimes come across to many events, books, and people even, and that’s what happened again but this time I was not expecting it to happen. I was coming out of café after having some tea, few guys were standing there when I was passing by them one [...]
Jaswant Singh’s book Jinnah India Partition Independence has created quite a furor in India. The Hindu nationalists as well as the Congress secularists are outraged over its contents forcing expulsion of the author from BJP; the Hindu nationalist party known for demonizing the Quaid and viciously condemning the imperatives behind the creation of Pakistan. In [...]
The chaos that is spreading within the country is frightening and a result of bad or lack of governance on the one hand and US intrusions and questionable activities in Pakistan on the other. In the first instance, there is no civilian governance infrastructure to take over and govern the “cleared” areas in Malakand – [...]
Pakistanis at home and abroad will be celebrating on August 14, 2009, their 62nd Independence Day.. Pakistan came into being because the Muslims considered themselves as a separate entity from the majority Hindu community. The day, which is rejoiced, is also a reminder of the services and sacrifices of the Muslim leaders and their followers.
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In the last 62 years, much ingenuity has been spent to explain the concept of Pakistan as envisioned by the Quaid and Iqbal. But the question that haunts us even after 62 years of attaining freedom is that how close have we come to the actual translation of our founding fathers’ vision into reality? There [...]
In 1948, just before the cabinet meeting, the ADC inquired from Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, “Sir what will be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?”
Quaid-e-Azam looked up and replied sternl, startling the ADC: “Whichever of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before leaving his home or when he returns home. [...]
As if really Zardari cared for it, the staff of the President House put the photos and portraits of Benazir Bhutto at every imaginable places in the President House just to appease the diehard workers of the PPP. As at every occassion in the presidency, the cameras doesn’t fail to relay the pictures of Benazir [...]
My God, you maybe thinking, this guy has really lost it now, what does he wants? What nonsense he keeps on writing? First he was teaching us about our Islam, and then he was spreading rubbish about beards and now, this? This is too much, you must be saying, this guy is a public nuisance [...]
March has been the month of resolutions and change for the Pakistanis. This is the month of revolutions of all colors, red or velvet. On 23rd March, 1940, All India Muslim League held its annual session at Minto Park, Lahore and passed the historical Pakistan resolution.
The Pakistan Resolution stated: “No constitutional plan would be workable [...]
