Tag: Pti
Corrupt elements would be swept away in PTI’s tsunami: Hashmi
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari were dictators of their respective parties and they did not tolerate...
Javed Hashmi likely to be named PTI president
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central executive committee’s important meeting will be held on January 14 in Lahore where Javed Hashmi is likely to be chosen...
Mush’s show
You were invited
Former president Pervez Musharraf pulled an Altaf on his supporters in Karachi the other day where he had the first big political...
The G word
People in other newsrooms recycle and attempt to pass off as their own ideas the Jeem-team conjures out of thin air
If you caught El...
PTI will take to streets if govt attacks judiciary: Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has warned that if the government tries to take any action against the Supreme Court and the chief...
PTI to pitch honest candidates in polls: Qureshi
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday said his party would field honest candidates in the next general elections to secure...
PPP, PML-N will be allies again: Imran
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday predicted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will once again form an alliance...
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,...
The polls
October it is
It would have been with a hint of satisfaction that the ruling party’s core committee decided to hold the polls in October...
Before the polls
Many a slip between the lip and the cup
The PPP core committee jointly chaired by the president and the prime minister has ostensibly struck...
Ayla Malik meets Imran, announces joining PTI
Former parliamentarian and niece of former president Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, Ayla Malik, on Thursday called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan...
The illness of our soul
Taseer is dead, in a physical sense. But in his death he survives because of the principle he stood for
I asked a Barelvi friend...
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...
Demand for fresh polls
Why so impatient?
The demands for immediate elections and insinuations of initiating an agitation if the government fails to oblige assume an ominous significance in...
Swinging in reverse
Rhetoric on emotional steroids
Happy New Year! Almost ten years ago, in August 2002, I published an article, Reverse Swing, during a period of upsurge...
PTI to launch civil disobedience movement: Imran
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said that during the Central Executive Committee meeting of the party to be held next month, he will...
The year of hope?
We’ll muddle through…
Will 2012 be the year of hope or despair? It is difficult to give a categorical response to this question. However, the...