The Chief Justice will be traveling to London next month to receive the prestigious International Jurist Award 2012, media reported over the weekend. While this recognition is being lauded in the media, it seems that there might be more to the story than has been reported. No doubt the International Jurist Award 2012 is something [...]
Several years ago abba told me a story about a young husband and wife who were famous for fighting so loud that it was easily heard a few houses away. This had been going on since the couple were married, and at first people would always ask if this modern young couple hate each other [...]
A conviction of contempt was entered against the nation’s longest serving Prime Minister in history Yousuf Raza Gilani today. In a telling manner, the Court sentenced the PM till the rising of the Court only – in other words about 30 seconds. Many believe this was an attempt by the Court to save face after [...]
At the beginning of the year, Gen. Musharraf announced that he would return to Pakistan between 27-30 January. He would arrive in Karachi and would stand in general elections. When the date arrived, however, Musharraf was nowhere to be found. His aide told reporters that he was postponing his return, but insisted that “Gen Musharraf [...]
It’s well accepted that a free media is a foundational requirement for a functioning democracy. This was apparent to Quaid-e-Azam who spoke passionately on different occasions about the importance of independent media that will fearlessly criticise those in power. Today we have a media that fearlessly criticsing the powerful, but there are some questions about [...]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the sight of another massive attack before the sun rose on Saturday. No, this was not a ‘night raid’ of American agents or another cross-border raid of US special forces. The attack against a secured prison was carried out by militants that some politicians continue pretending don’t exist. Early Saturday morning, 100 [...]
There’s a common joke that I hear from certain friends who take a cynical view of the world. “Democracy: Where any two fools can outvote a genius”. This is one of those jokes that sounds much more clever than it really is. For one thing, it is often a fool who thinks he’s a genius. [...]
Mubasher Lucman on Nawaz Sharif: Mubasher Lucman on PM Gilani: Mubasher Lucman on APML: Mubasher Lucamn on Musa Gilani: Mubasher Lucman on Najam Sethi: Mubasher Lucman on Husain Haqqani: Mubasher Lucman on Hafiz Saeed…
Although the anti-PPP publicists have renewed their claims about Mansoor Ijaz’s version of events about the memo saga looking very believable, the ruling party remains confident that this will be just another example of over-enthusiastic PPP haters celebrating the government’s difficulties while using the shoulder of the judiciary. “Already, what started out as an issue [...]
The brave sons of soil guarding the territorial integrity of this land of pure at world’s highest war zone. These men never fear the stinging cold difficult most terrain , extreme weather inclemencies besides guarding the frontiers. Their duty is above and prior to their life. Siachen Soldiers of Pakistan Army We Salute You.