The first gathering of Tehreek-i-Insaf at Minar-i-Pakistan Lahore had turned the table of Pakistani Politics but since then, a lot of events have taken place resulting in negative impact on Imran Khan’s popularity among Pakistani youth and civil society. Lahore gathering was an eye opener for PML (N) because their vote bank was likely to [...]
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By Mazhar Tufail ISLAMABAD: Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf is finalising plans to launch his own political party in March, a source close to the former military ruler told The News here on Wednesday. [...] Renowned Lebanese poet Khali Jibran in one of his revolutionary poem Pity the Nation, says, Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose [...] Muhammad Ahsan Yatu I create an embarrassing situation for myself before the start of almost every wedding ceremony that I attend. I reach the venue on time, the time mentioned on the invitation card. The ceremony always starts at least two hours late. The place is usually a hotel. One can relax in the lounge [...] By Mohammad Malick It is bad enough being a reporter for it turns you into a cynic and an incorrigible snoop who tries finding the hidden curve even in a straight drawn line. It gets even worse when that reporter turns into a columnist and gets the opportunity to add [...] Maybe legislation is too serious a business for our legislators and maybe its time we lowered our expectations, or even better, dropped them altogether. How else do you rationalise the behaviour of our elected reps when on a private members day in the National Assembly (of all the days) the [...] By Mohammad Malick I have good news and bad news, so let’s begin with the good. The good news is that leader of the Upper House Raza Rabbani assured his Senate peers that the government was committed to implementing the in-camera security resolution and that the critically important and non-partisan [...] Dr Muzaffar Iqbal Just five months ago, Asif Ali Zardari was a nobody in Pakistani politics, albeit in the public arena, although he was fully operational behind the scenes. The exact nature of his involvement in Pakistani politics prior to the Dec 27th assassination of his wife remains unclear, but [...] پچھلے ہفتے رونماء ہونے والے دو بڑے واقعات قابل ذکر ہیں ۔ ایک یہ کہ ملک میں اچانک یہ افواہیں گردش کرنے لگیں کہ صدر پرویز مشرف کی روانگی اب ہفتوں کی نہیں دنوں کی بات ہے۔ دوسرا یہ کہ پیپلز پارٹی نے ججوں کا مسئلہ حل کرنے اور صدر کے اختیارات محدود کرنے کیلئے [...] Nasim Zehra If being part of the world system, the soaring oil prices and the global food shortage is eroding the Pakistani people’s purchasing power, the unstable domestic power scene too is contributing to Pakistan’s precarious socio-economic scene. Like all contemporary states and societies Pakistan’s [...] |
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