By Asif Haroon Raja Imtiaz Alam is irreconcilable and incurable since he compulsively speaks negatively. He is among the small band of faultfinders in Pakistan that see everything in Pakistan through jaundiced lenses and spare no opportunity to portray Pakistan and its institutions as well as the Islamists (referred to as fundos, extremists and jihadists) in poor light. In a TV program on August 3, I heard ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Pakistan on August 3, this year to participate in the 3-day conference of the interior ministers/home ministers and other delegates of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member states, held in Islamabad. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit came at a time, when the tensions between Pakistan and India is running high in ...

by Asif Haroon Raja PPP-MQM 5-year rule in Sindh from 2008 to 2013 had devastated Karachi. The cosmopolitan city of lights was destablised by the MQM with the help of its target killers trained in India with an additional base in South Africa under a well calculated plan of India and its strategic partners to bleed Pakistan’s economic hub centre and crumble its economy. Well over 5000 innocent people had be ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Various forms of corruption have infected almost every sector of the country in such a way that it has now become a national problem. After the massive leak of the secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, the question of rampant corruption in Pakistan has again come into limelight, as the disclosed papers include the names of several Pakistanis, including the Prime Mini ...

By Sajjad Shauka tFrom time to time, controversy arises between Afghanistan and Pakistan when Afghan officials refused to recognize the Durand Line which is the 2640 kilometer long and porous border, situated between both the countries. The issue again came to the limelight on June 12, 2016 when Afghan security forces started unprovoked firing at Torkham border crossing, resulting in injuries to more than 1 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja After the mysterious death of Gen Ziaul Haq in a plane crash on August 17, 1988, the era of unstable democratic era commenced in which PPP and PML-N took turns. None could complete the mandated five years and each tenure ranged from two to two-and-half years. President Ghulam Ishaq and President Laghari used the axe of Article 58-2B, handed over to them by Gen Zia to fell the governments ...

By Ali Sukhanver The whole of Pakistani nation observed 20th of this July as a Black Day in showing solidarity with the helpless people of the Indian Held Kashmir who have been facing all kind of atrocities at the hands of the cruel Indian army for the last many decades. The history of these cruelties is replete with so many examples of callousness and pitilessness of the Indian authorities against the Kash ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control and Pakistan including rest of the world celebrate July 19 as the Day of Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan, as on this very day in 1947, the historical resolution was adopted by the by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Abi Guzar, Srinagar during an emergency convention at the residence of Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim K ...