Shariq Kamal Siddique, District Police Officer (DPO), Bahawalnagar, has been summarrily removed from his position, and surrendered to Centre after he refused apologizing to the local MNA for arresting his aide who had thrashed policemen at a check post....
When Khurram Rashid, District Police Officer (DPO) of Abottabad, was descending down the winding hilly pathway towards the ill-fated village of 'Maqool Payin' located few kilometers off Donga Gali, he had a sick feeling in his stomach. It looked...
Many of us remember the 'All Parties Conference in London' in the July of 2007. Then it was supposedly an alliance of the democratic parties against the dictatorship. Many of us believed it; though I am sure there were...
We have heard that PM Nawaz will undergo Open Heart Surgery on Tuesday, 2nd June - May Allah grant him complete recovery and health to be able to perform his job and execute his responsibilities.
However given his position as...
In the morning of 27th April, Pakistani public was bombarded with the front page stories in leading English and Urdu papers of a media group closely aligned with the government, stories that claimed that International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...
For the past six weeks, PPP leaders have been playing the ‘Punjabi gallery’ and playing well with rhetoric, acrobatics of emotion and feigned anger to present themselves as an ‘opposition’ to the reign of Nawaz Sharif. Moment of truth...
A question was asked in US State Dept briefing that given accusations of corruption and demands by Pakistani Political parties that PM Nawaz Sharif resign, what will US do? Will it continue to support the democratically elected Prime Minister...
“They were five men, they dragged me out of the house, they kicked me like a football, and then they poured gasoline on me and set me on fire; I recognized ‘Master Shaukat’ and yes, Arshad….” These were more...
Shah Mehmood Qureshi while talking in my program on Dunya News on Fri, 13th April hinted that Zardari has lost control on PPP; he argued, albeit cautiously, that Zardari is no more running the show and Bilawal is setting...
Islamabad - Today, Tue, 10th May, PM Nawaz Sharif finally met his military chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif. This photo-opportunity, with the other Sharif, was desperately needed by PM Nawaz as it was increasingly being discussed in media and political...
Panama Cat is out of the bag! PM Nawaz gave his 'Commission of Enquiry' that will or can investigate everyone 'rich' in Pakistan except himself. This is called a 'potential sixer'. Will this be caught at the boundary or...
Recently White House issued US President Barack Obama's income and tax records. These were really interesting. American President in 2015 had a gross income of US $ 435,000/- out of which $395,000 was his official salary as President and...
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This week, hundreds of thousands of people across Pakistan ended up watching the documentary “Dinner with the President” co-produced by acclaimed filmmakers Sabiha Soomar and Dr Sathanathan.
Sabiha is Pakistani but her co-producer, Dr Sathanathan, is Sri...
I have spent several sleepless nights in the last few days. Yes! the burning of, 19 year old, Maria was gruesome, was shocking and hard to digest. One shudders to imagine the pain, the fear the stink of burning...
Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, completed her 19 - 20 minute speech at United Nations General Assembly short while ago. She spent first 9 minutes talking of the need to fight poverty, talking of the 400,000 plus toilettes which...