Tag: Coas

Country starved for a paradigm shift In a ground-breaking decision, the ECP has annulled the by-elections held in Tando Mohammad Khan and slapped a two...

According to Mansoor Ijaz, he got the unsigned memo delivered to Adm Mike Mullen as asked for by Ambassador Husain Haqqani on behalf of...

Inching towards understanding After the hard talk during Karzai’s Islamabad visit last week, PM Gilani’s statement comes as nothing short of a game changer in...

More power to the judiciary’s elbow I have always considered that the success of lawyers’ movement in Pakistan in 2008 was its first war of...

A reality one moment, gone the next The memo issue has been debated extensively and exhaustively. The reason it should be debated further is because,...

About time too The over two month long tension between Pakistan and the US seems to be easing now. Domestic and American media reports indicate...

Will we ever be rid of our demons? I never remember a time in our 64 years of independence when we have had complete faith...

Removing objections raised by the registrar’s office, the Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted for preliminary hearing a petition seeking direction to the government not...

Out of sight, out of hand? What was once spoken only in whispers or expressed in innuendos is now being discussed openly in the courts...

Civilian oversight needed The ubiquitous Pakistani intelligence apparatus, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, is under fire, both from within the country and from our erstwhile...

Whichever way to the future, the path is strewn with pitfalls The inevitable has happened. The prime minister has been cited for contempt by the...

Everybody jostles In an interview to a foreign news channel in Davos on January 26, PM Gilani rejected the notion that “democracy was under threat...

This is with reference to Nasim Zehra’s article published in Pakistan Today "Media is not the culprit here" on 31 January. It has thrown...

Mr Arif Nizami, in his recent article, printed on 28 January in Pakistan Today, has drawn a very clear picture of the issues that...

The mess that is civil-military relations The prime minister of late has developed a penchant for first making statements critical of the military establishment and...

The elephant never forgets With the COAS and DG ISI meeting the prime minister together and the latter retracting his statement, the civil-military tensions –...

The times we are enduring If ever a doubt lingered with regard to us having regressed beyond redemption, it should go away with the ongoing...