Dear Readers, Following weeks of high political drama and constitutional chaos, former cricket star Imran Khan was ousted as Prime Minister of Pakistan after it ended up in the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister lost his position after losing the no-confidence motion in Parliament. Truth be told, this was in actual fact the combined…
Suicide Bombings Bomb/IED Blasts On April 5, unidentified persons threw a hand grenade killing three people in Kot Kundian area under Kulachi tehsil (local unit of administrative division) of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, reports Dawn. The victims were identified as Rozi Khan (25) and his relative, Mohammad Ayub (40), and Abdul Sattar. Five Policemen…
The emotions in the streets is clearly with the aggrieved party, tending to side quite heavily with Imran Khan. For remaining “neutral” the Army has come in for a fair share of approbation. Because of a lot of motivated fake news being bandied about by those who hate both the Army and the PTI, it…
Thursday’s judgement by a 5 member Breach of the SC rejected the ruling of the Deputy Speaker last Sunday that resulted in the dissolution of the National Assembly before the vote of no-confidence could take place. Sticking strictly to the letter of the law and the Constitution, were the SC holier than thou when they…
Indians who served in subordinate posts in the army, Survey of India, Indian Medical Service and civil service were exposed to the wider world. The Raj introduced modern education in India and encouraged its servants to educate their children. When officer corps of Indian army was opened for natives, this generation became the pioneers. Independent India and…
The anti-west slogans and messaging coming out from the recent protests have been unsettling. Strongly worded to demonstrate a point that slavery by the west is unacceptable, one could only think in terms of the downturn of global inclusion that has taken place in lieu of recent events. The diatribe which some have so readily adopted…
Anti-Americanism has never ever united Pakistanis. It was a ploy. It has always been a theatrical call by politicians leaning on the right side of the divide, primarily reactionary-or-orthodox elements. Nor has campaigning against Washington brought in dividends. Rather, this love-hate-card was used for petty personalized objectives, and none other than the administrations in the…
The modern pattern of Indian foreign policy have introduced various models of its extra-regional diplomatic efforts in which a major transformation in New Delhi’s bilateral to the multilateral approach with the world beyond its neighbors has become an undeniable reality and an irrefutable truth. The diplomatic frameworks of New Delhi always remained active in the…
Introduction Allah created man with the ability in his nature to distinguish between good and evil. But Satan always tries to mislead and often succeeds in misleading the weaker in faith. God sent Messengers and Prophets for guidance through revealed books. With the passage of time these revealed books were distorted, however yet they contain fundamentals…
Recently the political climate in Pakistan has been abuzz with the phrase ‘regime change’. This has added fuel to the fire, which was already raging quite wildly! The fact that regime change is a reality that the world has witnessed quite often is a given but the fact that regime change can gain a successful…
