Tag: zia

Imran Khan the leader of the cult of PTI has managed to convince his fanatic followers that he is the ...

18 March 2023 marked the 30th death anniversary of Mohammed Khan Junejo, but the date passed by with scant mention ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s comments about threats to the political system is interesting, but inherently vague. Maybe it was intended ...

Islamism as a postmodernist critique In Pakistani films of the 1960s, men returning from Western countries (after getting degrees from ...

Time indeed flies. I remember watching An Inspector Calls on one of my trips to London back in 2006. It ...

As Pakistan prepares for a worsening wave of inflation, and the whole mainstream media sets its eyes upon Imran Khan ...

After putting kids to bed, I was scrolling through social media for the day’s feed, and read a post by ...

‘It was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was ...

The living legend of Pakistani films, television and stage Zia Mohyeddin has taken his final bow and passed into oblivion. ...

Globally renowned Pakistani orator and presenter Zia Mohyeddin breathed his last today (Monday) in Karachi. He was 91 years old. ...

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

It is a well-settled principle of human history that rapid change can only be brought through sustained struggle, sacrifices and ...

Imran Khan and his close political associates are well known for their support and admiration for the Islamist extremist groups ...

The famous Marxist, late Meraj Muhammad Khan, once told me that he wept when Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto ...

Strong nations rely on their political, judicial and military leadership to act in good faith for the greater good of ...

Many people who had contributed to the arts, politics and culture of South Asian have passed away this year. Among ...

Erasing Histories and the Formation of Narratives When the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted in the ...

This time of year, the student solidarity march has been organized again by many progressive student organisations. The nationwide student ...

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

I bought cheap tickets at the Lords for the final of the 2009 T20 World Cup, hoping to see India ...

In Karachi, good theatre is hard to come by, especially when one looks for literate entertainment. Olomopolo Media dared to ...

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

The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) recently staged a night of Jazz fusion, titled ‘More Than Jazz’ at Zia ...

Pakistan is among those nations where the youth have been completely ignored and left exposed to merciless tides. The memories ...

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

On this day in 1977, then army chief General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's elected government by imposing ...