Dear Readers, Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s much hyped ‘Azadi March’ took off from Karachi on October 28, entered Islamabad on Oct 31 and fizzled out on Oct 13, a damp squid if ever there was one. The Maulana promptly announced Plan ‘B’. Whatever many people might have been led to believe when the ‘Azadi March’ drama…
Pakistan will welcome the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on an official visit. This will cement the long-standing friendly relations between the two countries and lift them to a new level. Much of this is due to the efforts of President Erdogan, who for the last 16 years has been central in directing the…
With its multiple ethnicities, languages and sub-nationalisms a subcontinent rather than a country, India was bound to face many tensions and even centrifugal tendencies from its very beginning. This recognition by the early rulers notwithstanding multiple separatist movements have developed over the years. Consecutive Indian governments have tackled the problem to a large extent by…
The features of corruption and nepotism that the Quaid-e-Azam had warned against has been going on unabated for decades, over time these methods have acquired a kind of legality and rightfulness. Everybody today seems to accept the fact that sitting in a position of power makes one entitled to take payment for favours. The weak…
Over the decades corruption has become deeply entrenched in the institutions of the state and in the business of fighting corruption, it is one of the most important objectives of the current PTI government. Corruption has damaged the Pakistani state, its social fabric, its economy and its national security. Fighting corruption therefore remains one of…
Pakistan’s image in the international community is rather negative, over the years and even after decades this has not much improved. We have never paid much attention to our image-building, whatever done was done a clumsy way. Pakistan’s negative image was further disparaged by the very successful and never relaxing anti-Pakistan propaganda by India at…
Contrary to general world perception, India’s economic woes are increasing by the day. India’s once-impressive economic growth, averaging above 8 per cent over some time, slowed to below 5 per cent in the last year while inflation rocketed into double digits. Maryam’s Uncle Modi’s changing of the status of the autonomous state of Jammu &Kashmir…
“The Betrayal of India. Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence” was published in 2017 and since then has seen two more editions. The Book analyses the evidence that has been blamed on Pakistan in the Mumbai bombing case. Elias Davidsson is a Jewish writer with an Icelandic Passport living in Germany. He made a name for himself…
Dear Readers, To meet the expenditure of a country and serve its people, taxes are essential, it being the most important source of government revenue that is reallocated to cater to expenses incurred by the federal and provincial governments. Pakistan’s existing tax system is perceived by a majority to be unjust and oppressive and indeed…
The second term of BJP rule in India has exposed the fake Indian image of a free, democratic or secular country. The media is an exact mirror of what is going on. The print and other media is so much under the control of the Hindutva team that it has become dangerous for journalists to…
