Tag: Politics

Politics and its discontents

The solution is always more democracy Idealists, never content with a good idea, insist on distillation towards purer variations. One would have thought that Churchill...

Punjab govt’s protest against outages rebellion against Centre, says Kaira

The Punjab government’s protest against load shedding is rebellion against the federal government, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Wednesday. Speaking...

Keep sports away from politics, pleads former cricketers

Former cricket players from Pakistan and India have spoken out in support of separating the politics and diplomatic relations between the two nations from...

The funhouse of Pakistani politics!

On Martyr Day, General Kayani made one of the most politically correct speeches that I’ve heard in a long time. Traditionally, the people of...

Nawaz should quit politics; start business, advises AQ Khan

Nuclear scientist DR Abdul Qadir Kahn has advised PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to quit politics and concentrate on business and let his brother Shahbaz...

In politics, charity begins at home

In an apparent bid to win back the support of estranged Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) parliamentarians, PPP Co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday...

Pakistan paying heavy price for int’l politics: PM

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan had paid a heavy price for international politics, as the country had had to make...

Sort out politics, and you’d stop economic deterioration’

The country’s economy is deteriorating day by day due to incompetent economic team and bad governance for which some unpopular decisions on political front...

IIUI two-day conference from 6th

The Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) is going to organize a conference in collaboration...

‘Mansoor playing politics on Memo issue’

A spokesman for Hussain Haqqani’s legal team has said that Mansoor Ijaz is once again playing politics through media statements on the issue of...

PPP coins BB assassination report to remain in politics: Saif

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary General Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, refuting the investigation report on Benazir’s assassination, and stated that the report had...

Gilani’s innocence

Not it, he says While Prime Minister Gilani might really be innocent as he claims, the arguments he advances would have few takers outside the...

Playing politics

Politics in Pakistan is not something you can enjoy on the fringe, particularly so if you are a politician yourself. This is something what...

Policing handicapped by political appointments

Despite the Islamabad Police’s tall claims about controlling car theft in the city, car lifting cases are on the rise. The police seemed helpless...

Will quit politics if ISI funds proved: Imran

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that he will quit politics if it is proven that his party has been funded by the...

Sunni Tehreek is now a political party

The Sunni Tehreek is now a political party and is set to commence its politicial activities as the “Pakistan Sunni Tehreek” at its public...

Students need to step into politics: minister

Dictators have always conspired to depoliticise students and we cannot have leaders if students do not step into politics, Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri...