Pakistan

WASHINGTON: The Pakistani state could collapse within six months if immediate steps are not taken to remedy the situation, warned a top adviser to the US Central Command.   David Kilcullen, who advises CENTCOM commander Gen. David H. Petraeus on the war on terror, urged US policy makers to focus their attention on Pakistan as […]

A new lawyers’ movement may be needed to address the crisis created for the legal profession in Swat after the Tehreek-e Nifaz-e Shariat-e Muhammadi (TNSM) banned the lawyers from the qazi courts set up under the tutelage of its leader, Sufi Muhammad. He warned the lawyers and judges on March 17 to stay away from […]

WHO are the people prowling the streets of Lahore from dusk to dawn, depriving people of their cellphones, cash, vehicles — and shooting to kill if anyone resists? In the last two weeks, they have struck 450 times in the city; yet Lahore’s police remain completely clueless as to their identity and whereabouts. Tariq Malik […]

ISLAMABAD: A police constable was killed and four other people were injured in a suicide blast at the gate of police’s Special Branch headquarters near G-7 Markez on Monday. The boom resounded through a vast area, sparking panic in the city. It was the fist such attack in the federal capital in four months. Interior […]

Political and cultural problems do not emanate in a day. There is always a history to them. The emergence of Bangladesh was not just a conspiracy of India against Pakistan. Its roots can be traced in the formative years of Pakistan when Jinnah refused to accept the cultural identity of Bengalis by enforcing Urdu on […]

The monster of Islamic militancy is spreading in Pakistan even though the Bush era has ended amid an endless war against terror. Taliban are claiming new grounds and al-Qaeda network is thriving by establishing a modus operandi which exploits its local affiliates — militant outfits active in Kashmir and Afghanistan — to pursue the global […]

The book deals with the unpleasant side of the significance of South Asia. It has two articles on Pakistan, one on sectarian violence, the other on violence in the Tribal Areas. It has one article on Afghanistan and its luckless population who has been given to understand they have never been conquered, while, looking at […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) released a detailed judgement of its verdict to disqualify the Sharif brothers from holding public office on Saturday. Terming Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif as dishonest, and “not sagacious”, the verdict said he had been convicted by the Accountability Court under Section 9-A(V) in Reference No 2 of […]

ISLAMABAD: President of the Sindh chapter of PML-N Syed Ghous Ali Shah has said the army will have to accept the sovereignty of parliament. The army will have to decide once and for all about the sovereignty of parliament. It will have to accept that everyone should work under parliament,’ he said while addressing a […]

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Association (PESA) on Saturday demanded trial of General retired Pervez Musharraf for subverting the Constitution and said the former dictator should be ousted from the Army House.    In the meeting of the association, the ex-servicemen hailed the restoration of the unlawfully removed judges and praised the legal fraternity for successfully leading […]

ISLAMABAD, March 21: The Supreme Court on Saturday released its detailed judgement on the Sharif borthers disqualification case. On February 25, the Supreme Court through a short order had disqualified the Sharif brothers from holding or contesting public offices. Consequently, Shahbaz Sharif lost his office of the Punjab Chief Minister, while the elder brother Nawaz […]

LONDON: For the first time ever since 9/11 Pakistan has been officially mentioned along side Afghanistan as the launch site of the attack on the twin towers; and this, by an influential ‘friend’ of Islamabad. ‘The reason that we’re in Afghanistan is precisely because 9/11 was launched from the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ said […]