The writer is a lawyer, academic and political analyst. She has authored a book titled ‘A Comparative Analysis of Media & Media Laws in Pakistan.’ She can be contacted at: [email protected] and tweets at @yasmeen_9.
Constitution of Pakistan 1973 In changing key points in the Constitution of 1973 of Pakistan, General Zia created a legal framework inundated with subjective terms that defy legal definition and has led<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/09/reviewing-article-62/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsDid it really help? All constitutions in Pakistan are based on Act of India 1935. A document by aliens to rule aliens on fault lines of ethnic divide. The basic fault lines<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/01/revisiting-the-18th-amendment/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsPM Khan has opened a Pandora’s Box It was in 2009 that the United Nations refugee agency and the government of Pakistan reached an agreement allowing Afghan refugees to stay in Pakistan<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/24/the-afghan-refugees-in-pakistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsTime to deliver on the big promises The first step by PTI has been taken. It has managed to break the status quo, crashing through the so far two-party system and getting<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/17/pti-in-driving-seat/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsImplications Pompeo claimed the visit to Pakistan to “reset the relationship” with the new government of PM Khan. Days before the visit, the American Congress passed a bill to cut Pakistan’s defence<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/10/pompeo-in-pakistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsYasmeen Aftab AliIt is next to impossible to prepare for the big office According to international criteria, there are three straight forward rules in filling cabinet posts. First; the cabinet minister must<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/04/appointing-cabinet-ministers/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsUSA must keep Pakistan’s interests in mindIslamabad denied that any discussion on “terrorists operating in Pakistan” took place between Prime Minister Imran Khan and US Secretary of Stat
ColumnsPTI must break the ‘traditional’ ways of doing politics and running the country The pandemonium that broke out from the opposition benches upon the PM’s vote count, protesting against the alleged election<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/21/tough-road-ahead-for-prime-minister-imran-khan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThe art of diplomacy and its tools are missing from Trump’s gear box Alliance between US and Turkey is collapsing leading to a potentially dangerous situation that experts fear will have a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/14/us-opening-yet-another-front-turkey/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThe fight for CM Punjab reveals shortage of leadership material The deliberations by PTI to decide upon ministerial positions from within the party reveal a lack of grooming of people within the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/07/the-deficit-of-leadership/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsExciting times The people of Pakistan have rejected the status quo. Not just the parties they viewed as representing the status quo but also most of the “electables” Imran Khan proudly embraced<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/30/post-election-scenario/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsThe outcome of Elections 2018 does not promise qualityPakistan’s external debt rocketed to $91.8b in May 2018. This is an increase of over 50pc in past four years. In terms of money it work
