When Pakistan was rated the second most corrupt country in 1996 by Transparency International (TI), a joke started that Pakistan was actually placed on the first position but the govt persuaded Tl to place Nigeria ahead of Pakistan. We may have had a good laugh then but almost twenty years (and many govts) later, Pakistan…
This article is dedicated to the valiant officers and men of the Pakistan Navy who continue to demonstrate unconquerable courage and stand as an impregnable wall both at sea and ashore against the sadistic and callous architects of terrorism. “If anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the…
Nothing encapsulates and perhaps embodies the spirit of globalisation better than world trade, most of which is carried out via the medium of the sea. Maritime trade can thus be said to be the pivot around which the global economy as well as our collective social well-being actually revolves. The enormous natural resources on land,…
The evolving strategic competition between the great powers introduces the counterbalancing forces emerging from different states. The ongoing and unending struggle to dominate the world by expanding the political sphere of influence has remained an undeniable feature of a state’s foreign policy which rarely supports the status quo in international system. Irrefutable forces of wars…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb/IED BlastsOne Fazal Manan, the younger brother of Malik Taj Khan, a well-known pro-Government tribal elder, was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the Tarkhoo area of Mamond tehsil (revenue unit) in Bajaur Agency in the evening of September 25, reports Dawn. Officials quoted eyewitnesses as saying that Fazal Manan…
Noting that Pakistan’s public debt remained very high, the interest bill being higher at current debt level than the country’s entire development budget, IMF President Christine Lagarde pointedly said that the perception of corruption in Pakistan was hurting its prospects to grow. Addressing our immediate political crisis inadvertently (or was it deliberate?), the IMF President…
With around 215000 confidential documents about offshore entities and their secretive off-shore accounts becoming public, the “Panama Papers” became history’s biggest leak ever. Revealing financial and attorney-client information about scores of outright criminals, drug smugglers, etc. current and former world leaders alongwith their close relatives and/or friends, were linked to tax evasion, money-laundering, etc. Having…
Attempting to stall/derail the Supreme Court (SC) enquiry one of the petitioners wanted all 400 or so named in PanamaGate to be tried, Chief Justice (CJ) Jamali dismissed it as a “20 year plan”. Quoting Hazrat Umar (RA) setting a personal example by insisting “the accountability of the rulers is different from others”, the CJ…
Whenever in trouble the Sharifs have always successfully fought for time, delaying things till the problem dies a natural death. This time despite filibustering for months the govt could not (1) sidetrack the PanamaGate revelations, the Supreme Court (SC) took up related petitions on Nov 1 or (2) wriggle out from their treasonous concocted fabrication…
Presidential Election 2016 will be held on December 4, 2016 in the Republic of Uzbekistan which is now in full swing in all parts of the country. Political activities are now getting momentum. The Central Election Commission (CEC) has now registered candidates for the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It has registered Sarvar Sadullaevich…
