In Pakistan, whether in cricket or politics merit is a disqualifier. Just before the ICC World Cup our regular opener Muhammad Hafeez sustained an injury, he could have stayed on, missing possibly one game only, but he was packed off post-haste so that Nasir Jamshed could be rushed in to take his place. In the…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide AttacksA suicide bomber, identified as Mohammad Asif, denoted his vest when Security Forces (SFs) arrested him while he was travelling in a bus on Main Grand Trunk (GT) Road near Rawalpindi District on January 20, reports Dawn. Earlier it was reported that a Police constable, identified as Shahid, was injured…
With a real estate tycoon (take a wild guess?) buying up votes with his tax-free money in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Assembly for PPP candidates, “horse-trading” for the upcoming Senate elections went into overdrive. While cause for anxiety for the PTI-JI ruling Alliance in KPK, five PML-N legislators in Balochistan failed to show up for a…
US Presidential Elections 2015 will be held on March 29, 2015 in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Politics and economics are different but interconnected disciplines. Both are interdependent and interrelated in their utilities, scopes and productivities. Political stability is must for achieving the desired goals of macroeconomic sustainability. Their ideal combination leads the ways of further…
During the recent Pakistan-Turkey summit both sides explored options to assist Afghanistan in reaching a peace agreement with the Taliban. Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu had an extensive agenda, including looking beyond bilateral cooperation and playing a role in stabilising Afghanistan. Due to Turkic demographic belt running from West Asia to East Asia through Afghanistan, Turkey…
ContextIn its past analysis, PoliTact has projected that the affairs of Middle East, especially related to extremism and Iran’s nuclear program, are likely to dominate the affairs of South Asia at some point. Associated with this assessment is an alarm that if the Afghan reconciliation process lingers on for too long, as it has, the…
We cannot afford to confine Army appointments to persons who have excited no hostile comment in their careers …. This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged thoroughly safe by conventional standards’. Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Sir John Dill, Chief…
Sectarianism, extremism, militancy and Intolerance are the main threat to the unity, peaceful coexistence and progress of Muslims. “Be not like those who became divided into sects and who started to argue against each other after clear revelations had come to them. Those responsible for division and arguments will be sternly punished” (Qura’n;3:105). “do not…
Introduction 1. Traditionally people of the sub-continent have been quite lax on the usage of mild intoxicants. Emperor Babur repeatedly mentions the use of opium in his autobiography Tuzk-e-Babri while his son Humayun died after falling down from the stairs of his observatory after having a dose of opium. Emperor Jahangir was so fond of…
IntroductionPrime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto pronounced his self-styled “revolutionary” administrative reforms, the basic purpose of which was to disestablish the system of “service cadres” introduced by the British in the eighteenth century and later on introduced in Pakistan, with certain modifications, subsequent to partition.1 One motive underlying such disestablishment however was the intent to weaken…
