Tag: Islamabad
Pakistan’s Pharma: An Industry Set to Rise
When in September of 2021 (16-17 Sept), Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan dashed to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to attend SCO’s 20th summit, there was another little-noticed...
Putin and Imran Khan: Speaking with one voice on Afghanistan?
Russian President, Putin, and Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan surprised the world when they spoke with one voice on Afghanistan during the just concluded 20th summit of...
What the world does not want to understand about Taliban & Afghanistan
London engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury is credited for producing the first-ever jigsaw puzzle around 1760. However, a further bit of research reveals that...
Pakistani Politics on edge and PMLN?
Pakistani politics enters mid-2021 amidst interesting national and regional developments; some of these are under the public radar – for instance, the fast-changing situation...
Asad Toor Affair: Exposed Unprofessionalism of Pakistani Media
What will be remembered as the “Asad Toor Affair” has badly exposed the unprofessionalism and moral bankruptcy of Pakistani media, civil-military fault lines of...
Premier Zhou Enlai: Modern China’s founding leader was a Great Friend of Pakistan
Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China. This foreign policy wizard and one of the sharpest strategic minds of...
Modi could have visited Pakistan in October 2021
India and Pakistan were engaged through backchannel for more than a year. Focus of discussion remained normalization in Kashmir and its change of status...
Pakistani Senate Elections: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
PM Imran Khan and ruling PTI are trying to establish the principle that senate elections – due in March – should be held through...
Khadim Hussain Rizvi: The Man and the phenomenon! Will this be the end of...
In November, Covid-19 claimed a very unusual and controversial life in Pakistan. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the founder of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), died on 19th November in...
Kashmir, Gurdaspur & Mountbatten?
Alan Campbell Johnson, in his famous book, “Mission with Mountbatten” writes – while trying to explain why Kashmir, amongst the princely states, represented a...
Pakistan’s NCOC: Birth of a powerful democratic institution
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a whole day at National Command and Operational Centre (NCOC) and I left with this palpable...
Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan
Peace Agreement signed in Doha between the US and Taliban is certainly historic and a moral victory for Pakistan. But New Delhi is bound...
Complex Kaleidoscope of Pakistan’s political theatre
Political system remained under stress from Peshawar to Karachi. It seems as if outgoing Chief Justice, Asif Saeed Khosa, had fired a “silver bullet”...
Why Govt must send “Judge’s Reference” to Supreme Judicial Council?
Many lawyers, members of Bar Associations, retired Judges and media commentators are now making a case that Govt. should not rush to Supreme Judicial...
How rogue lawyers are destroying courts?
How Pakistan’s judiciary is being undermined by rogue lawyers? Apparently this is not being understood by the top minds in Pakistan’s bar and bench....