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 Rundown on dramatic regime change The PTI pitched against PML-N triumphed in the July 2018 elections, breaking the two-party monopoly. Pathetic performance of the two mainstream parties, sustained propaganda of PTI’s media cell, politics of agitation by the PTI activists, the judicial prejudiced approach, assistance provided by hidden hands, charisma of Imran Khan (IK), and his tall prom ...

By Sajjad Shaukat JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced to end two-week-long protest of Azadi March (Freedom March) sit-in in Islamabad on November 13, this year. Addressing the Azadi March protesters, Fazlur Rehman said that ‘Plan B’ will now be implemented with full force, as the scale of the protest will now be extended across the country by blocking highways and major thoroughfares. Implementing ‘ ...

By Asif Haroon Raja FuR had become a political orphan and was in wilderness after July 2018 elections. He suddenly came in the limelight as a result of his million Azadi March which he launched in last week of October. His threats to stage a huge sit-in at Islamabad (Isbd) were not taken seriously by the government (govt) and agencies. In their assessment, he could at best gather few thousand supporters and ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Imran Khan (IK) and senior party leaders were seen huddled together at Bani Gala with utter dejection written on their gloomy and long faces after the announcement of NA-154 by-election results of Lodhran on the evening of February 12. What was most disturbing for them was that this seat was lost to PML-N’s little-known candidate Pir Iqbal Shah. It was the hometown of Jahangir Tareen (JT ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The foundations of MQM was laid by mercurial and firebrand Altaf Hussain in 1984 on the pillars of violence, terrorism and fascism. The facade of a political party of middle and lower middle class was built as a smokescreen to hide the crimes of party leadership and to build the image of Altaf Hussain, popularly called as ‘Altaf Bhai’, as an icon and a hero. In order to gain full control ...

نغمہ حبیب اِقامہ سعودی عرب، متحدہ عرب امارات اور قطر وغیرہ میں کام کرنے کا وہ اجازت نامہ ہے جو غیر ملکی مزدوروں اور مختلف قسم کے روزگار کے حصول کے لیے آنے والوں کو درکار ہوتا ہے۔اِقامہ یا کفالہ میں کفیل ایک طرح سے آقا ہے اور اِقامہ حاصل کرنے والوں کو بین الااقوامی تنظیمیں جدید زمانے کا غلام کہتی ہیں جو اپنے آقا کی مرضی کے بغیر کوئی فعل سرانجام نہیں دے سکتا چاہے اُس کا موجودہ روز گار کتنا ہی تکلیف دہ ہو وہ د ...

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Towards Understanding the Reality of Problems In its formative history of 70 years, the nation is fraught with tragedies. The legal dismissal of PM Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court on financial corruption provides a fresh opportunity to the nation to think critically and with an inward eye on systematic change for sustainable future-making without feudal lords and sadistic politi ...