By Sajjad Shaukat During the first anniversary of 2013 general elections in Pakistan, on May 11, this year, country-wide protest rallies led by leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI), Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT), Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and Jamaat Islami (JI) were held against the rigging in the elections, demanding a corruption-free state, instead of a system that brought corrupt politicians in parli ...

By Brig®Mehboob Qadir Pakistan must be a unique country where her Defense Minister launches repeated malicious attacks on his own armed forces, keeps meaningfully quiet when they come under sizzling smear assault from a tainted part of media and acts deaf  on a written defamation complaint by the country’s premier intelligence agency, again, under his care. This is most likely a minister who cannot, perhaps ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indira Gandhi after breaking Pakistan into two parts in 1971 chuckled that India had avenged 1000 years of humiliation and sunk two-nation theory in the Bay of Bengal. Mir Jafar’s treachery committed in 1757 was repeated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971. He was the Mir Jafar of 20th century. While Mir Jafar had connived with East India Company to hand over Bengal to Lord Clive, Mujib con ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Every thing became crystal clear when foreign media, NGOs and human rights groups reactivated their campaign against Pakistan, its army and especially Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) by projecting the so-called propaganda of the Geo TV by favouring the misconceptions of its anchor and journalist Hamid Mir who was severely injured on April 19, this year when unidentified gunmen opened f ...

By Sohail Parwaz More or less a decade back, when one evening after the day’s hassle I was doing the habitual net surfing that I came across a website named, ‘The petition on line’. The title sounded interesting to me so I opened the site and found yet another page where I found a tall list of frustrations of people, mostly with pseudo names. The petition on that page was by a scoundrel named Jamal Uddin wh ...

Agrarian distress does not figure in the ongoing elections Inderjit Singh Jaijee At a rally in Sangrur (Punjab) women carry photographs of debt-ridden farmers and farm labourers who had committed suicide. A Tribune file photo EVEN though campaigning in Punjab is at its height and candidates are leaving no stone unturned to corner their rivals, the issue of rural suicides finds hardly any mention. One farm u ...

The entire nation stood shoulder to shoulder with the defenders of the motherland in paying its tribute to the Shuhada on April 30th 2014. People all over the country and from all walks of life held thrilling rallies in inspiring manner to show their support for the armed forces. General Raheel Sharif’s address on the occasion has been hailed by all as the most forthright, full of resolve and commitment and ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat In the aftermath of attack on the senior journalist and anchor of Geo TV channel, Hamid Mir who was severely injured on April 19, this year when unidentified gunmen opened fire at his car in Karachi, leaders of various political and religious parties including all the segments of society have been condemning the  the Geo TV channel which deduced hastily outcome of the assault. Without any ...