ISLAMABAD: Senate Committee on States and Frontier Regions took a strong exception to directions recently given to political agents guiding them to decline contracts to civilian contractors, in the name of criminal…
Nawaz must face the music These are interesting political times, to say the least. With the Sharif family’s political future at stake, and Imran Khan struggling to avoid the…
Dr Yasmin Rashid, PTI’s candidate NA-120 If people put me in power, I will strive to get clean drinking water, hospitals and schools for the people of NA-120. PML-N is trying…
Senator Babar asks govt to present FATA reforms package before parliament ‘Govt not able to prevent disappearances, trace detention centres due to lack of legislation’ Senator Farhatullah Babar, opening the debate in…
—Senator also raises the issue of forcible eviction of Loaralai residents by Cantt authorities ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday asked for an inquiry into the drafting of anti-print media ordinance which he…
Burying our head in sand is no longer an option Last week jolted Pakistan in a number of ways. After Donald Trump’s policy on South Asia, which called on Pakistan to…
Time to take action The significance of the BRICS declaration that included a condemnation of violence in Afghanistan and specific mention of the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad,…
Sanity always prevails The National Assembly and the Senate have given a strong message to the US, Afghanistan and their allies, read India, through unanimously rejecting the targeting of Pakistan by…
JI will fight off changes to Article 62, 63 The US wanted resumption of bomb blasts in Pakistan. The people of the tribal areas are not going to accept slavery…
The Trump administration is convinced after compelling intelligence reports that Pakistan is supporting Taliban militants, said Raza. He added that the same was said again and again by the Obama administration…
Treading a fine line While Civil Contempt tends to arise from the flouting of orders or directions of the court, Judicial Contempt most aptly caters to the kind of situation…
It’s about ensuring sanctity of vote and civil supremacy That Baqar Najafi report was published in almost every newspaper in the first week of August 2014 and was with…
For the PPP Zardari delivered an aggressive speech on 27 March 2017, in which he stated that in the fifth year of this PML-N government he would do politics of agitation…
The long and short of it Beijing agreed to provide Pakistan with a $5.5b concessional loan to upgrade and modernise the Karachi-Lahore main railway line called ML-1 During a press…
Forward march only? Ambassador Wajid added that since major portion of CPEC would run through Pakistan’s most troublesome province in an intermittent state of insurgency — Balochistan — its success would…
Not very heartening expectations Today, after the sunset years of the Obama administration has thrown up an America in deep global retreat and internal political gridlock, the change is palpable but…
Disconnect amongst actors involved in implementation There has been some progress in terms of inter-agency collaboration and we have also witnessed tougher posture towards radical elements The National Action Plan…
