Rameez Raja recently made some suggestions how to attract good quality players for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and to resolve the problem of low spectator turnout in the UAE cricket stadiums. His contention is that in PSL “each team has to stay under a predetermined salary cap set and cannot go over the budget…
The ruling coalition says the Senate elections has been ‘stolen’ from them, the Opposition panel winning far more votes than expected. You can ‘steal’ things from a person only when he owns it, did Nawaz Sharif already “own” the Senate before the elections actually took place? Having purchased the votes are they now upset that…
Dear Readers, Once known as the ‘City of Lights” mainly for its nightlife, peace and harmony reigned in Karachi, however this slowly gave way to chaos and lawlessness. Held hostage by criminals and militants affiliated with political parties who maintained vice-like grip over Karachi with political violence, land grabbing, armed robberies, narcotics and smuggling, snatching…
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Dear Readers, When the panama papers Disclosures reverberated worldwide in April 2016 the global media has field Day. It was no different in Pakistan as the massive leaks revealed three of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s children owned offshore Companies and assets that were not shown on his family’s wealth statement. The electronic media went berserk…
Named for the Alpine resort town in which the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting is held, the prevailing misconception is that the Davos is only a rich man’s club that caters to the world’s wealthy and impacts only the rich countries. WEF was founded on the premise that business cannot operate in a vacuum…
Arrested on Feb 22 by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for corruption in the Ashiana Housing scandal under Section 2 of the Schedule of NAO, 1999, Ahad Cheema, formerly Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Chief and now heading Quaid-e-Azam Thermal Power Limited, had failed to appear before NAB twice despite summons. Showing flagrant disrespect for the…
With general elections due somewhere after mid-2018, the expectations of the people and the stakes thereof has evolved dramatically with the political scenario changing almost on a daily basis. The Supreme Court (SC) verdict voiding Election Act 2017 and thus disqualifying Nawaz Sharif as party head has confounded all elections predictions by throwing what amounts…
The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, is a major creative force for engaging top leaders from across the world to undertake joint action relating to events for shaping the global, regional and industry agendas. Having attained a reputation for great integrity, the WEF is not tied to any political, partisan or…
Dear Readers, Counted among the handful of larger-than-life personalities in Pakistan, the late Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan had reached a pinnacle of Success in both his life and in his profession that very few man-age to attain and maintain with respect and dignity. He was known and admired for his exceptional qualities, his abilities…
