The depleting water resources associate with them a fear that politico- regional conflicts will emerge in much intense form. According to the reports of World Bank and Asian Development Bank, Pakistan is one of the most water stressed countries in the world. The next five years are really crucial as it is apprehended that Pakistan [...]
“The audience watched in awe the circus where harlequins faint and cry, and jokers await their cues as thieves in the dark. Mesmerized the cobra danced in the ashes, eyes glistening blankly, tongue darting like a ventriloquist’s puppet with no thought of its own. They clapped and danced merrily, pierrots of the centre stage. Secretly [...]
The short order and the detailed judgement of the Supreme Court has at least done one favor to the political horizon of Pakistan. It has told all of who care where the premier Yousuf Raza Gilani stands. Those who were speculating about rifts between President and the Prime Minister should know better now.
The columnists and [...]
It was bound to happen. The bad blood between the two institutions of Pakistan is very natural course of events. With Asif Ali Zardari as president and with Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice, the showdown between these pillars of the state is not something strange or out of context.
Asif Ali Zardari cannot get free [...]
Clash is on, arms are out. Supreme Court has dished out its detailed verdict upon the infamous NRO, and the government has returned the recommendations of chief justice after making objections on it. The government ministers and governors are out making all kinds of threatening gestures. President himself is out to garner some votes before [...]
I have been hammering the fact in these pages that it’s ridiculous to even think that there are any rift between the president and the prime minister and it’s even more ridiculous to thinkt that the premier would ever stand in front of the flooding of corruption.
The fact of the matter is that the corruption [...]
Unfortunately, in Pakistan any common citizen who faces charges and the period from “mulzim” to mujrim” or “baygunah” till the time he is not proven, the person has to go through humiliation, mental and physical tortures, degrading insults moreover his family and relatives suffer and go through the same pains. Now I respectfully ask honorable [...]
The biggest problem with the present regime in Pakistan is that it’s corrupt. Not a single person is out there who can claim that he or she is clean. The bunch of ministers and advisors who were selected by the President carry lots of corrupt baggage and now the Islamabad is buzzing with their fresh [...]
The rift between Army and Asif is worsening. Army has adopted the policy of just remain silent, wait and see how much aggressive and foamy the president can get. Just like a bull in the fighting ring, President is watching many red clothes and getting aggressive and hyper and cursing the hidden hands as the [...]
