BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI No handouts, no whitewash! [caption id="attachment_15167" align="alignright" width="455"] Pakistani residents cast their votes at a polling station in Islamabad on May 11, 2013. Pakistanis queued up to vote in landmark elections, defying Taliban attacks to cast their ballots in polls marking a historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo c ...

افغان حکومت اورحزبِ اسلامی کے معاہدے کے بعدپہلی مرتبہ حکمت یار باقاعدہ طورپرکابل آنے کی تیاریوں میں مصروف ہیں تاکہ وہاں بیٹھ کرآئندہ انتخابات میں حصہ لینے کیلئے اپنی سیاسی سرگرمیوں کاآغازکیاجاسکے جس کیلئے ان کی آمدسے قبل ان کی حفاظت کیلئے حزبِ اسلامی کے وفادارچارسوسے زائدکمانڈوزکی تربیت کاآغازکردیاگیاہے اوران میں سے ایک سو کمانڈوزحزبِ اسلامی کے سربراہ کی حفاظت کیلئےمامورہوں گے۔حزبِ اسلامی کے ماہراورپرانے فو ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja MQM’s fascism The MQM under Altaf Hussain reigned supreme in urban Sindh from 1988 till March 2013. It expanded its political power by introducing the cultures of dead bodies filled in sacks, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, torture cells, target killings, no-go areas and strikes to paralyze the city. Despite its policy of fascism, terrorism, blackmailing tactics and imperiousness, and ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, General Raheel Shrif along with Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong has inaugurated the grand opening ceremony of the strategically vital Gwadar port on November 13, 2016. The Gwadar Port currently has 11.5 meters depth, however; it would be more deepen uptill 14 meters and will enable docking of larger ships with a deadweight tonnage of up to ...

BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI Imran Khan pulled out the plug on the November 2 dharna at the eleventh hour, reposing faith in the judiciary upon its taking up the case and converting a protest day into one of thanksgiving. This act of Imran Khan was stated by many to be ‘umpire’ guided or blamed on his naiveté at reposing trust in promises made. Others made fun of how he had failed his supporters and lesser numbers ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The political temperature that had begun to boil from 28 October onward became menacing on the following three days, but mercifully it scaled down dramatically on the evening of November 01 after Imran Khan (IK) decided to call off his much hyped foray into Islamabad (Isbd) on November 2. IK led PTI had been drumming up the Panama papers scandal since April 2016 and straining their lungs ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Imran Khan (IK) and his partner Sheikh Rashid pursuing politics of agitation since mid-2014 are once again on a rampage and are determined to lock down Islamabad (Isbd) and seize power by force. Their tantrums have shot up the political temperature to a boiling point and has intensified uncertainty and insecurity. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak along with PTI ...

By Sajjad ShaukatWaging a prolonged war in Afghanistan, the US and other NATO countries have realized that after the withdrawal of foreign troops, Afghanistan would be thrown in an era of uncertainly and civil war. They realize the fact that there is a co-relationship of terrorism or stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Therefore, US-led developed nations which also spent billions of dollars for the devel ...