Tag: Nawaz Sharif

Nawaz, Zardari playing with country’s future: Imran

Chairman Imran Khan has said President Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif have their bank accounts in foreign countries and they were...

To the courts

Better sense prevails It was almost surreal to witness the prime minister appearing in person before a seven member special bench of the Supreme Court...

The system must go on

A win for democracy is a win for everyone In contrast to the assault that was mounted against the apex court when former Prime Minister...

Our Balochistan blindspot

We have eyes but fail to see It doesn’t seem that in the power games between the parliament, judiciary, commanders and the media, the people...

PML-N will do everything to save the country: Nawaz

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that he had wanted to make Pakistan the “Asian tiger” during his tenure, according...

If Zardari must hang

Everyone else should too Top leaders of Pakistan Army decided in a meeting last week that they would make no compromises on ‘national security’, and...

This League and that

Confusion all around Will the real PML(N) please stand up? This is getting rather troublesome. Is it the League of post-exile Nawaz Sharif, who seems...

A grand alliance?

A united opposition can pull its weight The decisions taken at a meeting of the opposition leaders on Friday would increase pressure on the government...

Cat in the bag

It’s wearing a judicial wig and an army uniform Overdose of speculation lead to ‘Great Expectations’ the last maddening week. With uncertainty and speculation rife,...

‘Tis written?

An all-too-familiar script The scenario is moving step by step towards the pre-determined denouement. This time the military will not step in directly. The government...

Nawaz underscores CoD to avert present clash

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on Thursday linked the present state of turmoil in the country to the lack of action...

Method to the madness?

A swirling vortex of entropy As boulder hurtles down a slope towards its eventual endpoint, it picks up speed. So it is with change and...

Pervez MacArthur?

Waiting for the (in)glorious comeback It has been more than three years since Musharraf left the country, but it’s on the announcement of his return...

Memo conspirators should be unmasked: Nawaz

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Monday urged that perpetrators of memogate should be exposed. Talking to media after appearing before the memo...

Imran Khan: the tiger roars

His ragtag pack is no pride When Imran Khan lost the 1997 elections, I wrote: ‘The Tiger Will Roar’. When he was arrested I wrote,...

Military courts?

Perhaps Nawaz Sharif wanted to talk about 'speedy terrorist courts' but by slip pf tongue mentioned 'military courts'. However, MQM, PPP and PTI have...

Spurned by the Taliban

We’re not their only contact reference Is the centrality that Pakistan occupied in the ‘Great Endgame’ in Afghanistan on the wane? If one recalls the...