Tag: sharif

General Pervez Musharraf held the dubious distinction of following in the footsteps of military dictators Ayub, Yahya and Zia. Like ...

On his watch, the Pakistani army decided to attack Indian positions at Kargil, Kashmir, in the spring of 1999. He ...

Soon after toppling the second Nawaz Sharif government in October 1999 in a military coup, General Parvez Musharraf posed for ...

In what seems like a page out of a dystopian novel, Pakistani women are no strangers to abuse and toxic ...

Leading news channel Dunya News has apologised to PML-N leader Nasir Butt and agreed to pay £ 90,000 in damages ...

Pothohar is located in the middle of the country, encompassing all the districts that lie between the Margalla Hills and ...

Amrot Sharif is a historical village in Garhi Yasin taluka in the Shikarpur district. It is located about 9 km ...

The year 2022 was a tumultuous one for Pakistan’s domestic politics and even self-image, but one aspect of foreign policy ...

History is the greatest evidence and witness. Therefore, the victors and powerful are always scared of it. They love it ...

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

What kind of political leaders does Pakistani society need? Certainly not the type that are currently in the running for ...

Only five years back, the Western media was churning out cartoons in which Imran Khan was depicted as a toddler ...

Imran Khan had come marching towards Rawalpindi blowing his war bugle to topple the Shehbaz Sharif-led regime. Many thought that ...

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

Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, was once reminded by a Western intellectual, in the wake of the ...

Scene: A very important meeting is in progress at the He Fled Apartment.  Dozens of local and international TV channels ...

Scene 1: Qalandar is playing chess online with Bobby Fischer who is giving him tough time. Koila (coal) interrupts him. ...

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

One of Pakistan’s greatest strengths is that it is going through a ‘delicate situation’ since its birth. Live from the ...

Three very important figures were at Qalandar’s aastana (monastery): Showbiz’s cook who was an expert in making nehari, hareesa, siri ...

Qalandar, a fictional character, is Mohammad Shehzad’s brainchild. From the powerful to the poor – all visit his aastana (monastery) ...

The now decade-old tussle between Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is a political ...

Back in 1977, at the Sydney test, it is reported that Imran bowled for a continuous four hours and in ...

Imran Khan, the political maverick and blue-eyed boy of the establishment, managed to grab power. He did this by the ...

In 2020, a friend, settled in the US, quipped that never had he heard so many Pakistanis (in the US) ...

There are a few historical mosques in Pindigheb tehsil in Attock district which are mainly constructed of stone. These stone-built ...