With the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report relating to the Panama Papers now available in the public domain, the suspense of the last few weeks is over. The report is extremely thorough, lucid and pointing in its findings, maintaining that none of the respondents were entirely truthful while responding to the 13 primary questions that…
A mercenary contracted to American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Raymond Davis recently published his book ‘The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis’. The book succeeded in igniting a furore in Pakistan against the Army and the ISI, it was meant to malign our credible institutions. However once the…
Formation of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) by the SC in the PanamaGate case became cause for PML (N) party stalwarts to celebrate “victory” and start distributing sweets, indicative of a mindset totally devoid of reality. While one appreciates the Sharif family members for appearing before the JIT and not plead some medical excuse or…
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On June 25, a day before Eid, an oil tanker carrying 40000 liters of fuel from Karachi to Lahore overturned when a tyre punctured attempting a sharp turn near Bahawalpur. Oblivious of the danger, hundreds of people from surrounding localities, carrying pails, bottles and jerry cans rushed to the scene to collect the leaking petrol….
Accountability must target (but mostly doesn’t) politicians, public officials and govt departments, the lower judiciary, etc., in Pakistan. The PM appearing before the JIT because of PanamaGate is symbolic of the Supreme Court’s (SC)’s determination to bring the rule of law into governance. Criminal misgovernance has been highlighted by the JIT complaints to the SC…
Precariously making the cut for the eighth and final spot on the ICC ODI rankings, Pakistan came into the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy tournament as rank underdogs. Routed by India in their very first match by a whopping 124 runs, almost everyone gave up on Pakistan. One of the truly great comebacks in history than…
India’s newly annunciated “Joint Armed Forces Doctrine” envisaging force projection beyond its borders mandates that the three services, Army, Navy and Air Force will fight as an integrated force. Calling for cooperation and inter-operability of goals, services, techniques, command structure and logistics as opposed to fighting independently of each other, the Doctrine spells out combatting…
This was a good week for Pakistan. First Modi made the faux pas of the decade by boycotting the China Summit on the “One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiatives, than India gave us an enormous platform for internationalizing human rights by going to the ICJ over the Kulbushan Jadhav matter. Arrested by security forces while…
The PanamaGate fallout appears to have affected almost everyone even remotely attached to it. Ever since the International Union of Investigative Journalists llCIJ) leaked the unprecedented 11.5m files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, showing the myriad ways in which the rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes,…
