When the cat is away, PML-N returns to old ways
ISLAMABAD: It was back to old ways after Parliamentarians had approved changes in the Constitution besides making tall claims to wipe off religious terrorism from the country. Thursday was almost an anti-climax.…
Parliament gives ‘Yes vote’ in bitter-sweet mood
ISLAMABAD: Once again, Pakistan embarked on the experiment of invoking military courts to try civilians as the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament gave their consent to the changes in laws and…
‘Giuliani moment’ for Nawaz or a pit of snakes?
Islamabad: It made sense for the PML-N government to postpone voting on the 21st constitutional amendment, even if it was necessitated by circumstance. We could see chink in the so-called national consensus.…
Special Report PML (Q, K, W, L, J, Z, F, M, P…)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah must be turning in his grave at the A to Z of Muslim League factions that are using his name and integrity for their political perpetuation — and what…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report PPP—(Part V) Confused workers have nowhere to go, lost without identity)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP workers have never felt as dispirited and lost as they do today. The reasons are emotional, political and material. But the foremost is the issue of identity. The party…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report-PPP IV Who’s who in the invisible govt of Zardari)
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari looks taller by readily giving away his powers through the 18th Amendment. But this may have been one of the smartest moves that he ever made. Beneath…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report: PPP — Part-3 Baji Faryal now running PPP, emulating Benazir)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP, which survived the worst of three dictatorships, is ironically crumbling down in a democracy. Its leaders and workers withstood a lot over four decades: the hanging of its founder…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report: PPP (Part-II) ‘Aik Zardari, sub par bhari’)
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari may have overly rushed in turning the Bhuttos’ PPP into a Zardari fiefdom. Nearly all of Benazir’s close associates and the party’s old guard have been replaced.…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Part-1 The cruel joke is on Benazir)
ISLAMABAD: Benazir Bhutto would not recognise her party if she were to see it today. It is no longer the Pakistan People’s Party that she inherited from her father and neither is…
The changing politics of Nawaz Sharif (Special Report PML-N-IV)
ISLAMABAD: The biggest PML-N plank is that it promises a better government in Islamabad than being run by the PPP. Nawaz Sharif believes that the PPP under Asif Zardari is going downhill…