His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, UAE has been an integral part of my life for more than 25 years now. The very important portfolio of Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence was established by Government Decree in February 2016 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid…
When he learnt about his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022, Dr. Amjad Saqib said he had never been motivated by awards, but hoped the news could present a good image of his country. Humble to the core, Dr. Amjad Saqib is a renowned philanthropist and the founder of Akhuwat Islamic Microfinance (AIM),…
An ethnic Pashtun from Balochistan, belonging to the Kakar tribe, Mr. Anwaarul Haq Kakar took oath of office as the Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan on 14th August 2023. According to the law an interim setup is primarily meant to perform one fundamental task: conducting free and fair elections, along with running the day-to-day operations…
Born on Dec 6, 1939 in Hazaribagh (India), one of seven brothers and four sisters, Sabir Kamal Meyer was educated at the prestigious Col Brown School in Dehradun alongwith his brothers. Their father, Sher Mohammad Meyer, was a businessman who provided logistical support to the Allied Armies in India but the partition of the subcontinent…
Extract from Volume 6 (Passage to Nowhere) of Ikram sehgal’s“A Personal Chronicle of Pakistan” Lt Gen Lehrasab Khan did not know he was a ‘Volunteer’ for Operation Gibraltar until he reached HQ 12 Division in Murree. It is difficult to get much out of him about what happened in those fateful months but from time…
Born in the picturesque village of Jajja, Sukho, District Rawalpindi on April 07, 1940 at a time when World War II was already underway, Lt Gen (Retd) Lehrasab Khan received his primary education in a local school because English education was not available in Muslim schools in that region at that time. Before the partition…
“A school friend from Lawrence College (1958-1962), Afzal Ghani Barq of Ferozsons gave Rs 5,000 towards his 33 percent share, he said this was a vote of confidence in me. He said he would not give anymore, but would in return not take anything from the company, in the form of profits or the value…
The book “The Way it Was”, written by Brig Zaheer Alam Khan, (ZA to family and friends), recounts a raw, no holds barred account of a Pakistan Army officer’s life. Among the nine brothers who have served in the Pakistan Armed Forces, he commended the Special Services Group (SSG) unit during the harrowing events of…
United States was one of the first countries to have established diplomatic relations with Pakistan, just a day after Pakistan’s independence. Today the relationship remains at a critical crossroads. Born out of a transactional necessity, this logic defined Pak-US engagement on many occasions despite regular estrangements on account of geo-political differences. Pakistan desperately needed friends,…
With Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Opposition Leader Raja Riaz reaching a consensus” after some “deliberations”, founder member of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Senator Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, was named the Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan. Hailing from the Kakar tribe of Pashtun ethnicity in Balochistan, the former Senator (he immediately resigned from BAP…
