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Last week, I discussed in these pages, the inadequacy of the opportunities the current political apparatus offers the ordinary citizens of Pakistan....
Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency in 2009 gave hope to millions across the globe. A man of colour, born to immigrant parents, getting elected to...
Among his many other children, 45 years old Bazaar Khan was especially proud of his 5 years old daughter; Shehrbano. Tending to the kitchen garden or...
Ask any Pakistani on the street and they would tell you that Pakistan had defeated India in Kargil. It is also an almost unanimous opinion that...
Recent months have seen tensions along Pakistan’s western borders rise to levels unparalleled in decades. While Pakistan continues to employ the...
Which party exactly has formed the federal government? Is it the PML(N) as its president; Shahbaz Sharif, just took over as the Prime Minster? But...
In 1985, during a session of the Senate chaired by Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a point of order was raised by Maulana Kausar Niazi. He waved a copy of the...
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who has been active on the political scene of Pakistan for more than four decades, is believed to be heading towards...
It was a spring evening in April 1986. The historic Liaquat Bagh of Rawalpindi was teeming with people. Jubilant workers of the Pakistan Peoples’...
The fact remains that Pakistan, a country spanning 796,095 square kilometres, currently houses a staggering population of 240 million people. Their...
In the mid-1980s, when I stepped into the field of print media, it was just a few months after the long era of General Zia-ul-Haq. Following an...
On April 4, 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister, faced the gallows in Rawalpindi’s Central Jail. As the noose tightened around his...
On March 11, 1992, Pakistan faced Australia in its famed Cricket World Cup campaign. Pakistan had already lost too many matches and only a win against...
February 8, 2024, has finally been announced as the date for General Elections in the country. According to the schedule, today is the deadline for...
Justice Umar Ata Bandial, the former Chief Justice of Pakistan, strived for several months to ensure the conduct of the country’s general elections....
This was not the first occasion in November 2016 when Nawaz Sharif, as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, promoted Lieutenant General Bajwa to the...
After winning the Cricket World Cup in 1992, Imran Khan had a significant purpose in his life: building a cancer hospital in his mother’s name....
First Scene: It was September 4, 2021, just over two weeks since the Afghan Taliban had seized control of Kabul’s government. In the lobby of...
Global Responses to Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Regarding the background of the mentioned legislation, an article on the website of the U.S. Congress...
The Origins of the Latest Dispute On the evening of August 23, 2023, at 5 o’clock, in the Skardu City police station in Pakistan, an FIR (First...