Tag: general

Chief minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said that he had no qualms about dissolving the Punjab assembly, and it was ...

Imran Khan, the self-proclaimed “cornered tiger,” is riding the crest of a wave of popular support. He’s exuding confidence since ...

Pakistani military leaders' decision to remain apolitical is a constitutional anomaly. This decision confirms the military's status as an independent ...

Since the 1950s, the anti-Ahmadiyya card has been used in Pakistan’s applied and electoral politics for extra milage. Particularly after ...

The history of the military's dominance of power structures in Pakistani society is certainly not as old as Pakistan itself: ...

Scene 1: Strict security around Qalandar’s Aastana – armoured vehicles, anti-tank canons, ambulances, firefighting tankers, dozens of choppers, internet/phone services ...

There was a direct linear connection between Bhutto’s death and my near fatal accident. I will illustrate the principle of ...

Will November prove to be the cruellest month of all? The outcome depends on the answers to some burning questions. ...

The famed Rohilla clans were mainly drawn from Pashtun tribes. They migrated from their barren surroundings in the Hindukush and, ...

I saw the all-time epic Gone with the Wind in Karachi in the late 1960s. It glorified the way of ...

On one hand Imran Khan claims there has been a conspiracy and on the other hand he claims this audio ...

My father Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid was one of the first Muslim officers on the faculty of the Staff ...

Those who rule out martial live in a promised land. Their opinion is predicated on the political scenes of 1971 ...

Sahibzada Yaqub Khan was appointed commander Eastern Command in the dark and dismal days of 1970, when the Eastern Wing ...

“Our enemies know that they cannot beat us fair and square, and thus, they have subjected us to a cruel, ...

In August 1965, Pakistan’s 12th infantry division under the command of Major General Akhtar Hussein Malik launched Operation Gibraltar in ...

Dear Prime Minister, in the not-too-distant future you have to take a momentous decision: the toughest that any Pakistani prime ...

In any functioning democracy, the media is considered to be the fourth pillar of the state. The role of the ...

The Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) was formed in 1981 with eleven parties as its components, with the goal ...

Where are we headed? First, let’s consider how we got here. Pakistan is no stranger to uncertainty. It’s as if ...

Over five decades have passed since East Pakistan seceded, after terrible carnage and a bruising civil war, marking the period ...

43 years ago in April 1979, a former prime minster of Pakistan, Z.A. Bhutto, was executed for allegedly ordering the ...

Columnist and former MNA Ayaz Amir, addressing the Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA)’s seminar on “Regime Change,” in the ...

Although women comprise 48.54 percent of the total population in Pakistan, their perspective is missing in national policies, laws and ...

Over the years, you might have heard plenty of philosophical mumbo-jumbo about the past: that the past is the present; ...

In public remarks delivered in Islamabad, former prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that he never intended to appoint an ...