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 ...

[urdu] نغمہ حبیب پاکستان میں سیاسی لیڈر اکثر سیاسی گرما گرمی پیدا کر دیتے ہیں اگر یہ گرما گرمی مثبت ہو تو تب تو درست ہے یعنی سیاسی جلسے جلوس، عوام تک اپنا سیاسی منشور پہنچانا یا اپنے ترقیاتی پروگراموں سے عوام کو باخبر رکھنا۔ایک دوسرے پر تنقید کرنا بھی سیاست کا حصہ ہے اور تنقید اگر تعمیری ہو تو یہ سیاست کا مقصد اور سیاست دانوں کا قبلہ درست رکھتا ہے حکومت کو کھلی چھٹی نہیں دیتا کہ جو چاہے کرے بلکہ اپوزیشن کی ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Altaf Hussain founded All Pakistan Muhajir Student Organisation (APSMO) in June 1978. This platform raised slogans of Muhajirs socio-politico-economic grievances and their persecution by other ethnic communities. After the birth of MQM in March 1984, the party made strenuous efforts to control Karachi through acts of violence. For this purpose, it divided the city into sectors and nomin ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past few years, gang warfare, criminal activities and target killings have taken the lives of thousands of persons including the personnel of the Rangers and Police in Karachi. A number of terror-related incidents including sectarian violence have also resulted into several casualties. Therefore, the Present Government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the targeted operati ...

 سیّد ناصرر ضا کاظمی جذبات سے مغلوب اعمال کا نتیجہ ہمیشہ ناکامی ‘ نامرادی‘ پچھتاوا اور ندامت ہوا کرتا ہے پاکستانی فوج اور پاکستانی سپریم انٹیلی جنس ادارے آئی ایس آئی کے خلاف اپنے دل کا کثیف زدہ غبار نکال کر ایم اکیو ایم کے بانی لیڈر الطاف حسین جیسے آجکل معافی ‘ معذرت انتہائی معذرت اور اندرونی پچھتاوے کی کمزور تاویلیں پیش کرنے میں اپنی خاص شہرت رکھتے ہیں ایسی ہی کچھ پچھلے دنوں یکم ؍ اپریل اور2 ؍ اپریل کی درم ...

By Ali Sukhanver  Last September, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif paid a visit to Karachi to observe himself the actual situation of Karachi, the financial hub of Pakistan. In consultation with the law-enforcement agencies, he approved the urgently required strategy to curb violence. It was then decided to start a broad-spectrum operation against all those who are involved in any kind of cr ...

By Ali Sukhanver It was really something very painful to watch on the TV screen, a very smart man of yesterday repenting over his cruelties and regretting his past and appealing for a little delay in execution on his death penalty. Was Solat Mirza a criminal by birth? Did his parents know at the time of his birth that one day their beloved son would be pushed behind the bars for his cruel activities; certai ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Altaf Hussain, founder of MQM in 1984, and its chief was given political asylum in London after he fled from Karachi hospital in May 1992 because of life threats from his colleagues in his party. He was later awarded British nationality in 2002 and allowed to establish MQM International Secretariat in London. All the runaway MQM leaders involved in dozens of criminal cases in Pakistan we ...