By Moeed Pirzada
Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, Malaysian prime minister has taken keen interest in JF-17 fighter planes. After Pakistan Day Parade, in which he was national guest he took time to examine a JF-17 plane. Standing next to its cockpit...
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What is Polarization? I suspect most of you or perhaps most in Pakistan don't fully understand what it means. Polarization is when a society or polity splits in extreme ends, without a connecting middle ground. Pakistan...
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Lies, denials and propaganda don’t change realities. Truth has a nasty habit of sneaking out. And sometimes it even bombards. In the last two weeks it blasted like a hailstorm on Bush administration’s Afghanistan policy.
First it...
Pakistan’s monthly power outages among highest in Asia: Asian Development Bank
KARACHI: Pakistan needs massive investment in energy infrastructure as the country endures one of the region’s highest numbers of power outages, causing heavy losses to industry, said the Asian...
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Storming Ptv; Barbarians at the Gates: Entering PTV was Wrong: But the situation we are dealing with is now full of all "wrongs". Marching to the Prime Minister House is also wrong, sitting endlessly on Const....
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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While Imran Khan’s government showed a robust activity on all fronts, be it the economy, accountability or clean and green Pakistan; nothing matches the speed through which it positively moved inside the complex foreign policy arena.
Engaging the...
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...
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BENAZIR Bhutto was a gifted progeny of a remarkable mind. Confronted by a three-decade long adversity and tragedy, she displayed an uncanny ability to redefine and remerge. There is no doubt that she stood head...
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Egyptian Crisis is increasing! though by now there is little doubt that the US was behind creating this "military coup" (while US and EU are still trying to reinvent English language and dictionary by not admitting...
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Main purpose of that website is to collect all my past writings from Dawn, Khaleej Times, Daily Times, Nation, Pakistan Today, The News, Guardian, Policy Papers, Pique Magazine, Herald, Newsline at one place in chronological order. And...
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Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr AQ Khan’s recent pronouncements implicating President Musharraf and the army in clandestine nuclear proliferation, and the storm that erupted once again demonstrated the country’s deeply polarised politics.
Western writers and columnists had often...
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Just posted the program in which Jan Achakzai of JUIF & Asif Hasnain of MQM were bent upon throwing PTI out of Assemblies on a point of principle and Ayesha Gul Lalai kept fighting but despite my...
Sunday 24th April probably deserves a small footnote in Pakistan’s political history.
With Imran Khan of PTI announcing a ‘Campaign against Corruption’ from Fatima Jinnah Park in Islamabad; Jammat-e-Islami organizing a ‘Dharna’ (Sit Down Protest) against Corruption in Lahore, with...
Pakistani Establishment & Nawaz Sharif: Fighting a Noora Kushti? by Waqar Ahmed
Nawaz Sharif has either outsmarted and defeated the Establishment or both are fighting a 'Noora Kushti' for public consumption? This provocative piece is a note written by Waqar...