by Asif Haroon Raja Two-Party Rule & Military Rule ZA Bhutto gave birth to PPP in 1967 and Nawaz Sharif (NS) to PML-N in 1990. NS was groomed and patronized by Gen Ziaul Haq. The 2nd democratic era witnessed the two mainstream national political parties, PPP and PML-N at loggerheads from 1988 onwards till Benazir Bhutto in self-imposed exile and exiled NS signed Charter of Democracy (CoD) in 2006 during ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Imran Khan’s (IK’s) rising popularity IK’s xenophobic vows to defeat all his political opponents, criticizing Gen Musharraf and ridiculing Gen Bajwa, threatening the state institutions, censuring the US, and promising to break the status quo, and to make Pakistan a genuinely free country made his cult supporters euphoric. Placing him on the high pedestal of a Messiah, they once again got ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Change of guards After the nerve wracking drama on April 9 and melodramatic ending at midnight, the PTI regime had to throw in its towel and hand over the reins of power to the opposition. On April 11, the opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif (SS) was elected as the new PM unopposed since the PTI boycotted the voting. SS straightaway announced a relief package in the form of 10% increase in ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Amidst the ruckus created in the parliament lodges on 10 March on account of the Ansarul Islam militants of JUI-F entering the building and taking over its security to protect Maulana Fazlur Rahman, which was duly covered by the media, the TV channels splashed the breaking news at about 7 pm that the DG ISPR will hold a press conference at 8 pm. In the wake of political turmoil created b ...

نغمہ حبیب ہمارا معاشرہ اس وقت کس طرف جارہا ہے یہ ایک بہت بڑا سوال ہے جو ہم کے سامنے دھرا پڑا ہے ۔ ہم میں سے اکثریت اس دکھ میں مبتلا ء ہے اور اس پر اعتراضات اٹھاتا رہتا ہے لیکن ہر ایک دوسرے کو اس کا ذمہ دار سمجھتا ہے، کوئی نہ اپنی ذمہ داری محسوس کرتا ہے نہ پوری کرنے کی لیے تیار ہے ۔ اگر انہیں یہ احساس دلایا جائے تو اسے قبول کرنے کی بجائے الٹا چور کوتوال کو ڈانٹنے لگ جاتا ہے ۔ اگر ہم معاشرتی بے رہروی سے بات ش ...

By Admiral Afzal Tahir I claim political neutrality and ask you to consider this. The political developments in Pakistan over the last two years cast a profound impact on the recent developments in our region. Change of political government post 2018 elections must be considered a godsend. Pakistan had been continuously losing diplomatic ground over the ten-year period of PPP and PMLN governments. All the c ...

نغمہ حبیب پی آئی اے کے پاس بتیس جہاز ہیں اور آٹھ سو باسٹھ پائلٹس ہیں کیوں اس کا جواب اگر عوام کو دیا جائے تو بہتر ہو گا میرے خیال میں لاکھوں میں تنخواہ لینے والے ان پائلٹس کو روزگار فراہم کیا گیا تھا یہ اور بات ہے کہ یہ ادارہ مسلسل خسارے کا شکار رہا۔اب ذرا پی آئی اے کے ماضی کی طرف جائیں تو معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ یہی ادارہ ملکی وقار اور عزت کا باعث تھا اسی ادارے نے آج کی کئی کامیاب ائیر لائنز کی بنیاد ڈالی یا اُسے ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID-19 is rapidly spreading in Pakistan, some political entities are creating obstacles by creating controversy over 18th Amendment. Regrettably, they are doing politics over this sensitive issue. In this regard, on April 28, this year, the leader of the opposition parties, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, president PML-N Shahbaz Sharif and J ...