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News & Analysis

The Great Deluge

Tahir Mahmoud

Safar 05, 14442022-09-01

Rains have caused massive floods in every province in Pakistan. At least 33 million people have been affected; their houses have been destroyed and official reports say some 1,000 people have died, among them children. The imported regime has again appealed to overseas Pakistani for help. Why should overseas Pakistanis support these thieves and criminals?

Daily News Analysis

Turbulent times ahead for Pakistan

Crescent International

Ramadan 11, 14432022-04-12

Opinion

Pakistan’s Dysfunctional Judicial System

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 26, 14402019-02-01

Justice is a fundamental precept in every society. Regrettably, Pakistan’s judicial system, inherited from British colonialism, is broken and does not deliver justice to the people as is evident from the 1.9 million cases pending before courts.

Opinion

Pakistan’s Political Circus

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 13, 14392018-03-01

Politicians everywhere are a despicable lot but those in Pakistan are in a class of their own: incompetent and thoroughly corrupt

Opinion

Pakistani elite’s honesty deficit

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Hijjah 10, 14382017-09-01

Far from accepting their faults and their thieving ways, the Pakistani elite continue to behave as if they have been wronged when convicted by the highest court in the land!

Daily News Analysis

Pakistan Supreme Court declares Nawaz Sharif unfit to hold public office

Crescent International

Dhu al-Qa'dah 04, 14382017-07-28

Corruption has finally caught up with Nawaz Sharif and his family. In a landmark decision on Friday, a five-member bench of the Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office over what came to be called the Panama Papers scandal.

Special Reports

Pakistan: the landof contrasts

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 02, 14382017-03-01

Despite its immense potential, corruption, environmental pollution and religious divisions are tearing the country’s social and political fabric.

Daily News Analysis

Pakistan’s young parliamentarians take up the cause of the Kashmir dispute in earnest

Crescent International

Rabi' al-Thani 10, 14382017-01-08

At the conclusion of the two-day International Parliamentary Seminar on Kashmir on January 6, 2017, a ringing declaration was issued condemning Indian atrocities against the innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Daily News Analysis

The phenomenon of regime change in Pakistan

Mirza Aslam Beg

Muharram 29, 14382016-10-30

Dark clouds hover over Pakistan's political landscape. Chief of Tehrik-e Insaf, Imran Khan has threatened to lay siege to Islamabad while Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces growing pressure on many fronts including corruption charges stemming from Panama leaks and tense civilian-military relations. The former army chief, General Mirza Aslam Beg, sees parallels between this and the 1977 agitation that led to Bhutto's overthrow by the military.

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Letters To The Editor

Nawaz Sharif’s letter to Britons

Raiwind Sharif

Ramadan 26, 14372016-07-01

One reader makes a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, currently in Britain, wants to help the Brits overcome their problems after the Brexit vote by becoming their prime minister!

Special Reports

US exerts nuclear pressure on Pakistan

Waseem Shehzad

Muharram 19, 14372015-11-01

Some commentators have described Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Washington (October 21–23) as a huge mistake. It is not difficult to see why. Smoke signals from the capital of the great Satan clearly indicated trouble ahead and it came aplenty so the question is, why did the “Lion of Punjab” (Mian Sahib to his buddies and admirers) still undertake the trip?

News & Analysis

Pakistan needs coherent policy to fight terrorism

Zia Sarhadi

Sha'ban 14, 14362015-06-01

If Pakistan is serious about confronting and eliminating terrorism, then it must adopt a coherent policy starting with the Sharif brothers withdrawing their support of terrorist outfits.

Main Stories

No Pakistani troops for Yemen, yet!

Waseem Shehzad

Rajab 12, 14362015-05-01

Pakistan has so far resisted Banu Saud and allies’ pressure to send its troops to find their illegal wars of aggression, but for how long? Will Nawaz Sharif succumb to Bani Saud pressure?

Daily News Analysis

General Raheel to the rescue in Pakistan?

Crescent International

Dhu al-Qa'dah 02, 14352014-08-28

Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani Prime Minister-under-siege, has been forced to beg the army chief, General Raheel Sharif (no relation) to rescue him. Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf led by Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehrik led by Tahirul Qadri are both demanding his resignation, Imran more forcefully than Qadri. The next 24 hours may prove crucial for Pakistan.

Letters To The Editor

From Sharifayn to Shurafa rule in Pakistan

Askia Wajd

Jumada' al-Akhirah 01, 14352014-04-01

There are too many Sharifs in power in Pakistan. Is it good, asks reader Askia Wajd?

News & Analysis

Is Islamabad serious about peace talks with the Taliban?

Tahir Mahmoud

Rabi' al-Thani 01, 14352014-02-01

Is Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif serious about peace talks with the Taliban or is he just playing games? The next few weeks will tell.

Daily News Analysis

Pakistan trying to wriggle out of Iran pipeline agreement

Crescent International

Safar 15, 14352013-12-18

The government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is trying to wriggle out of its agreement with Iran to construct the gas pipeline that would provide major relief to energy starved Pakistan. Industrial production has been badly affected by shortage of electricity with many industrialists shutting their factories and relocating abroad. The people of Pakistan have historical suffered at the hands of incompetent and selfish rulers.

Daily News Analysis

Will Musharraf be convicted on treason charges?

Crescent International

Sha'ban 17, 14342013-06-26

Despite Nawaz Sharif's announcement that treason charges would be laid against the former dictator General (ret'd) Pervez Musharraf, people remain highly skeptical. Some see it as political theatre; others believe Sharif is simply trying to divert attention from the serious problems facing Pakistan that Sharif has little ability to rectify despite making tall promises prior to may 11 general elections that his party won.

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