During an address at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Wednesday, the President made clear the government’s dedication to strengthening democratic institutions and protecting the rights and well-being of the poor according to a report from Ary News. President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for protecting democracy and democratic institutions adding that the elected assemblies and the government [...]
This fake crisis about where certain MNA’s received their degree is a ridiculous waste of time. No law requires an MNA to hold any degree, and that this is only now being mentioned two years after elections just proves that it is nothing but a ploy at overthrowing the government by some other means. Musharraf’s [...]
As often as the police arrest some miscreants involved in bombing attacks and militancy, the courts continue to release the suspects citing lack of evidence and the need for a speedy trial. But honest citizens who follow the laws are not granted this same privilege. Why are militants given more rights than honest citizens? Think [...]
The following article by Junaid Qaiser was originally posted on Let Us Build Pakistan. This article is an excellent examination of the poor conditions of too much of our media and is recommended to read. Obviously this does not refer to all journalists, but there is a growing group of very loud voices in media [...]
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It seems the nations of the world are always looking for a neutral umpire to decide their disagreements. Recently this role has often fallen to the superpowers – UN, USA, Russia, China – but does this approach really have a lasting effect? Or does it only serve to continue the disagreements when the side that [...]
by Sherry Rehman. Originally published in The News The nexus between state identity and religion is always a dangerous link. When citizens are massacred and abused on the status of their religious identity, then the slide into bestiality is no longer a heartbeat away. It is firmly among us. At this point only unmitigated public [...]
The LHC’s crusade to blockade the Internet is a battle not unlike the famous Don Quixote who was ’tilting at windmills’. The enemy is imaginary and the battle is futile. Still, the Quixotes on the LHC continue to charge ahead. Meanwhile, a real enemy is organizing in the back garden, and we are paying to [...]
Much is being written about a recent report from the magazine Foreign Policy that lists Pakistan as the 10th most failed state. Ahmed Iqbalabadi wrote an excellent rebuttal at the blog Let Us Build Pakistan, and today it appears that even the American political scientist Christine Fair from Georgetown University disagrees with the report. “Pakistan [...]
By Mahmood Adeel Ghazi Salahuddin’s column in The News last weekend has caused something of a stir among drawing room politicos and the intellectual left. But Ghazi’s fantasy that Nawaz Sharif would challenge the PPP from the left is a symptom of a larger problem that has infected the intellectual left: They have become so [...]