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Wajid Shamsul Hasan

  • January 25, 2021

    Remembering Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman

    As usual I was not surprised to receive a call from Sheher Bano of Jang group early January reminding me for a memorial article on a triple event in...

  • April 01, 2020

    Like father, like son

    I have had the pleasure of working with Proprietor and Editor-in-Chief Jang media group, perhaps longest editor who got trained as a fearless...

  • May 05, 2019

    ZAB’s personal physician Dr Naseer Shaikh passes away

    LONDON: Professor Dr Naseer A Shaikh, Adviser Overseas Pakistanis in the government of the Shaheed prime minister Benazir Bhutto and personal doctor...

  • January 05, 2019

    Bhutto—harbinger of change

    Martyred Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was globally recognised as one of the most outstanding leaders of his times. Indeed, the more trouble we are in as a...

  • December 15, 2018

    From Dhaka to fall of Dhaka

    December 16, 1971 is considered as the darkest day in our history. It is a colossal irony and tragedy that Pakistan got dismembered in Dhaka where...

  • October 16, 2018

    Remembering Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan

    It was sordid beginning for the new State. Its founding father Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah having won the battle for Pakistan, lost his own...

  • August 15, 2018

    Happier tidings on 71st birthday

    Pakistan’s 71st birthday -- August 14, 2018 -- shall remain a landmark event in the chequered history of the country as the beginning of a second...

  • August 14, 2018

    Happier tidings on 71st birthday

    Pakistan’s 71st birthday -- August 14, 2018 -- shall remain a landmark event in the chequered history of the country as the beginning of a second...

  • January 25, 2018

    Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman: A legend lives on

    It is indeed, a challenge to size up an icon of a man who made Pakistani journalism much of what it is today. It is like putting together waters of...

  • December 25, 2017

    Rebaptising the Quaid

    All sorts of fears and apprehensions shroud Pakistan’s future on the birth anniversary of its founder Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah . As we...

  • December 03, 2017

    PPP 50 years on

    Lahore not only has immense historic significance due to Lahore Resolution of 1940 that set the course for an independent liberal state for the...

  • December 01, 2017

    PPP 50 years on

    Lahore not only has immense historic significance due to Lahore Resolution of 1940 that set the course for an independent liberal state for the...

  • November 25, 2017

    Sleeping with the enemy

    “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten...

  • November 24, 2017

    Sleeping with the enemy

    “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten...

  • November 23, 2017

    Sleeping with the enemy!

    Professor Ibrahim of Jamat-e-Islami , Maulana Sami-ul-Haq of Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam-Sami and chief cleric of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul...

  • November 20, 2017

    PPP vs PML-N — II

    Freelancer HH Zaidi in his effort to over rate PML-N as a democratic party has made Benazir Bhutto’s painful long struggle for the restoration of...

  • November 19, 2017

    PPP versus PML-N — I

    In his article ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ Husain H Zaidi has taken a mighty swipe at PPP’s game of real politik. In a tainted observation PPP has...

  • November 06, 2017

    Benazir’s dismissal on Guy Fawkes night

    In Islamabad it was Guy Fawkes night twenty one years ago a handpicked president Farooq Leghari, considered trustworthy, dismissed Prime Minister...

  • October 30, 2017

    Tillerson’s visit to Pakistan

    American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit was about future relationship between David and Goliath. Although until now one does not...

  • October 30, 2017

    Tillerson’s foreplay

    American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit was more of foreplay for future relationship between David and Goliath -- whether to...

  • October 23, 2017

    Democracy and Begum Bhutto

    Pakistani politics—nay way of life itself—is outrageously discriminatory against women. Pakistan’s founder Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad...

  • October 18, 2017

    Oct 18, 2007 — one of the bloodiest days in Pakistan’s history

    October 18, 2007 will be remembered as one of the bloodiest days in Pakistan’s history under a military dictator—General Pervez...

  • October 01, 2017

    Drug factor and Afghan problem

    Terrorists strike in Pakistan. Islamabad accuses Afghan security apparatus having a hand in it. Suicide bomber attack some government installation...

  • October 01, 2017

    Drug factor & Afghan problem

    Terrorists strike in Pakistan. Islamabad accuses Afghan security apparatus having a hand in it. Suicide bomber attack some government installation...

  • August 28, 2017

    From cornerstone to tombstone!

    Once upon a time Washington had declared Pakistan as the cornerstone of American foreign policy. Those were the days when we had a political...

  • August 14, 2017

    New threat to MAJ’s Pakistan

    Month of August is landmark for Pakistan and its people. On August 11, 1947 its founder Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah unfolded his Magna Carta...

  • August 14, 2017

    New threat to MAJ’s Pakistan

    Month of August is landmark for Pakistan and its people. On August 11, 1947 its founder Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah unfolded his Magna Carta...

  • August 05, 2017

    L’affaire Gulalai!

    As if Panamagate charade and disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office since he was not honest and trustworthy as...

  • August 04, 2017

    L’affaire Gulalai!

    As if Panamagate charade and disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office since he was not honest and trustworthy as...

  • July 03, 2017

    Let’s call a spade a spade

    In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan’s ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad...

  • July 03, 2017

    Let’s call a spade a spade

    In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan's ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali...

  • July 03, 2017

    Let’s call a spade a spade

    In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan’s ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad...

  • June 22, 2017

    Benazir’s unfinished agenda

    On the longest day of the year 1953 was born Pakistan’s most dynamic leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. Had she been alive today she would have...

  • June 22, 2017

    Benazir’s unfinished agenda

    On the longest day of the year 1953 was born Pakistan’s most dynamic leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. Had she been alive today she would have...

  • April 28, 2017

    A tribute to Dr James Shera

    Rugby honors on April 27 its leading light—Dr James Shera a son of Pakistan and its first Pakistani Mayor. He receives highest civil award for...

  • April 28, 2017

    A tribute to Dr James Shera

    Rugby honors on April 27 its leading light—Dr James Shera a son of Pakistan and its first Pakistani Mayor. He receives highest civil award for...

  • April 24, 2017

    Even the darkest cloud has a silver lining

    Every cloud has a silver lining. In the Panama case judgment, there is not only silver lining but whole lightning giving hope for a better...

  • April 05, 2017

    Bhutto, Pakistan and peace

    Relations between Pakistan and India have remained on a see-saw mould since their inception as independent states. There have been three wars and in...

  • April 04, 2017

    Bhutto, Pakistan and peace

    Relations between Pakistan and India have remained on a see-saw mould since their inception as independent states. There have been three wars and in...

  • March 23, 2017

    A state of fear

    Notwithstanding what Shakespeare says about Ides of March as well as tragic year of 1971 when in the same month Sheikh Mujibur Rehman decided to...

  • March 05, 2017

    Tribute to Sir Gerald Kaufman — a great friend of Pakistan

    In the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman, Pakistan, people of Kashmir and occupied Palestine lost a great friend and a dauntless supporter . Known as the...

  • March 04, 2017

    Tribute to Sir Gerald Kaufman — a great friend of Pakistan

    In the death of Sir Gerald Kaufman, Pakistan, people of Kashmir and occupied Palestine lost a great friend and a dauntless supporter . Known as the...

  • January 06, 2017

    Zulfikar Ali Bhutto — what a man!

    One of the greatest French leaders Napoleon Bonaparte rightly believed that "it is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.” In...

  • January 06, 2017

    Bhutto — what a man!

    One of the greatest French leaders Napoleon Bonaparte rightly believed that "it is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.” In...

  • December 27, 2016

    Remembering ‘Eik Nihati Larki’!

    In October 2007 Awami poet Habib Jalib’s “Eik Nihati Larki” returned to Pakistan after 8 years of exile to free the country of...

  • December 26, 2016

    Remembering ‘Eik Nihati Larki’

    In October 2007 Awami poet Habib Jalib’s “Eik Nihati Larki” returned to Pakistan after 8 years of exile to free the country of...

  • December 23, 2016

    Welcome home, Mr Zardari

    Ever since Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced in a press conference that his father and former president Asif...

  • December 23, 2016

    Welcome home, Mr Zardari

    Ever since Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced in a press conference that his father and former president Asif...

  • November 30, 2016

    PPP 50 years on

    As Pakistan People’s Party enters 50th year of its establishment, it would require great deal of in-depth study, debate and discussion to...

  • October 30, 2016

    Quetta carnage and after

    Terrorists have once again struck Quetta -- perhaps our law enforcers’ Achilles heel. In August Balochistan Bar Association’s former...