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...