The writer is the spokesperson for Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, and former governor Sindh.
Rarely has a woman endured the kind of hardship, intimidation and brutality that Maryam Nawaz faced over several years at the hands of a fascist...
Imran Khan and his party have decided to fight back – but fight back against whom? Rather than conceding that all is lost and let the...
Mian Nawaz Sharif has been in politics for more than 40 years and still remains the most relevant and popular political leader in the country....
When you appoint the likes of Usman Buzdar and Mahmood Khan as chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa respectively, what exactly is the...
The ruling party has been decimated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local bodies elections. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the prime...
The most important message coming out of the cantonment board elections last Sunday night was that you may discredit him, you can run a propaganda...
The present government has completed three years in power. This is good enough time to pass judgement whether it has done well or if it has failed...
NAB is again making headlines – but for all the wrong reasons. In an embarrassing few days, various high courts have issued detailed judgments...
While it may seem like there is still a long way to go, two years is not really too far away before the scheduled elections in 2023. The last year...
Foreign policy issues are expected to be handled in a far more sensitive manner than domestic issues. Each statement or even each word has to be...
Any ruling party anywhere in a democratic country would seriously be concerned at the series of electoral losses in a span of a few months. Not so...
‘The change at the finance ministry’ – this was the title of my last article printed in these pages on April 6. Little did I know at the time...
Finally, the admission – an acceptance that the economy is in a mess. This acceptance is coming from no ordinary person. And surely not from any...
It has been exactly 50 years since independence was declared by the Awami League leadership for the people of former East Pakistan. It took another...
The PM has taken a vote of confidence from the National Assembly with 178 members reposing confidence. Out of this total, there were 16 members, who...
Hamza Shahbaz is finally out of jail and a free man after spending more than 20 months in jail. His release showcases the continuation of the...
Whatever happened to the Debt Commission report? This is a legitimate question, considering it was set up in June 2019 by PM Imran Khan. The...
In the last two and a half years Pakistan has degenerated on a scale that is both massive and unprecedented. The failure is on every front –...
The brutal murder of the Shia Hazara miners was tragic enough but what followed in the aftermath was even worse.
If we start comparing the overall economic environment between the PML-N’s last government and the PTI’s current regime, we see that the...
Whether one likes her or hates her, one cannot ignore the phenomenal rise of Maryam Nawaz on the political stage in Pakistan
Around June 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the setting up of a debt commission to investigate the increase in debt over the period...
It was never meant to end the way it did. What Lahore witnessed on August 11 in front of the NAB office was total anarchy.It was supposed to be a...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was clear in his plans to make Indian Occupied Kashmir part of the Indian Union. In the election campaign for the 2019...
The performance of the present government over the last two years has been dismal. The failure is spectacular – make no mistake about it. The...
The government’s narrative remains the same: we can either protect lives or livelihoods and, considering everything, it is livelihoods that will...
After seeing it almost two years in power, we still don’t know why the PTI has not delivered anything at the federal or provincial levels.To be...
NAB is back in action – or so it seems. Having been discredited for the last two years, it is trying to make another attempt to restore its...
In the end, we achieved nothing. In fact, we are much worse off than we were since the pandemic hit us in mid March.We have failed to contain the...
For the first 19 months of the current government's tenure, economic failures were all attributed to the previous PML-N government or the mess of...
The recent release of the FIA report on the sugar and wheat crises has once again exposed the lack of competence and capacity of the present...
During his cricketing career, if there was one attribute that differentiated Imran Khan from other cricketers, it was his ability to lead from the...
In an interview to a private television channel recently, Minister for Planning Asad Umar said that the promise to provide one crore jobs still...
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is finally out on bail after more than seven months in jail. There was more bad news for the PM and his party.Ahsan Iqbal, the...
There has been a huge failure if we see what was promised before the elections and what has been delivered. What led to such a catastrophic failure...
Just a few weeks back, it all looked great for the ruling party – or so they thought. The opposition, on the other hand – mainly the PML-N –...
Among Muslim countries, Turkey and Malaysia have achieved the kind of economic success that would be the envy of all others. They have set standards...
Are people better off today compared to August 2018 when the PTI took over the government at the federal level and in three provinces?This was the...
The death penalty given against General Musharraf by the special court has generated intense debate and added to the existing polarisation in the...
The agenda was to transform Pakistan into a modern welfare state – something Pakistanis had only dreamt but never seen before.This was Imran...
A few weeks back the finance adviser made the startling revelation that the price of tomatoes was Rs17 per kilo. The finance adviser probably...
The job of spin masters is to give a feeling of ‘All is well’ – even when the reality is the exact opposite. The present government has...
Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s announcement about the long march or dharna has naturally evoked memories of the more famous dharna in 2014. There are...
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Miftah Ismail and Maryam Nawaz have all been sent to jail after being kept in NAB custody for reasonable time periods. Whether...
Mohammad Ali Tabba’s interview regarding business conditions has sent shockwaves across the country. Tabba is one of Pakistan’s best known and...
The economic situation continues to deteriorate even in the new fiscal year. With an IMF programme in full force, the challenges are enormous. Our...
Indian PM Narendra Modi has done what he promised in his election campaign. The repeal of Article 370 has been on the BJP agenda for a while. We in...
July 25, 2018 ushered in a new era in our country’s history. Never in the past was a party was coming into power with so much hope and so many...
