Tag: #pakistan
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”...
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....
Zaidis Photographers: Pakistan’s Majestic Kaleidoscope!
This odyssey that takes us back into the British era starts at the beginning of the 20th century when two brothers – Syed Wazir...
Dr. Christian Turner, Welcome to Pakistan!
GVS welcomes Dr. Christian Turner CMG, the new British High Commissioner to Islamabad. He was announced as the replacement to outgoing High Commissioner, Thomas Drew, in...
Imran Khan: Facing the World at UNGA
On 28th September, a day after, PM Imran Khan’s speech at UNGA, I was at a dinner in Islamabad’s posh F-6/3 sector. The host was a corporate...
Kashmir Tragedy – An Identity of Eternal Pain?
Somewhere in October 1947, my mother, Najma, who was then four, was part of a refugee caravan in between Jammu and Sialkot. She was...
Indian occupied Kashmir: Internal, bilateral or international?
Comments of Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister, on Kashmir, during his meeting with US President, Donald Trump, at Biarritz, France, describing it as a...
Imran Khan: From “Man on Container” to Prime Minister
August has many important transition points in Pakistan’s history. The country was carved out of the British Indian Empire on 14th August 1947. Gen....
Qatar & Pakistan building long term relationship
Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was in Pakistan for a brief one-day visit in the third week of June 2019....
Why Jadhav became so important for India?
Prominent Indian journalist, Praveen Swami, in his groundbreaking piece, “India’s Secret War” (Frontline, 16 February 2018) raises an interesting question: “Thirteen Indians are being...
Lawyer Movement: What it was, what it wasn’t? Reflections twelve years on
Lawyers Movement or “Adlia Bahali Tehreek” (Restoration of Judiciary) occupies an important chapter in Pakistan’s colourful political history. Kickstarted on 9th March 2007, when...
Trump had hoped to meet Imran Khan at Davos?
World Economic Forum (WEF) top management kept hoping till the very end that Pakistani PM, Imran Khan, may be persuaded to join the Forum’s...
Global Village Space: A journey of 21 months
What happened, where, how and when? These are the basic, the primal, the fundamental questions we are supposed to ask in the news industry....
Pashteen’s PTM: A ‘Rights Movement’ or a new ‘Regional Agenda’?
Ahmed Khan, (not his original name) waits in his car behind a long line of other vehicles, for his turn to be checked. He...
MQM: Existential Crisis or Cross Roads into the Unknown?
Dr. Moeed Prizada |
MQM-Pakistan’s lackluster performance in the Senate Elections of March 3, 2018, has sent shock waves across Pakistani politics. Dr. Farogh Naseem,...