The recent bomb blasts in the Malakand Agency – outside two mosques – have once again drawn our attention towards the need to end draconian laws like the Frontier Crimes Regulation. So long as administrative and constitutional integration of this ...
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Ayaz Amir’s fear that Nawaz Sharif may blow this opportunity to serve the nation is well founded. Sharif should count himself lucky that the people have placed their trust in him once again. He should not disappoint the nation.
There should be ...
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While the incoming government faces serious challenges on all fronts, I want to remind it of the YouTube ban. Had the website been operating, we would have seen many more videos of rigging in the elections. It is time the ban is lifted. ...
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A sincere piece of advice to the MQM. It should act as a sensible and national political entity. Now people have become mature enough to understand the actual reasons behind sudden change of statements by politicians.
People do not consider ...
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The treatment meted out to many teachers – in the form of torture, humiliation and manhandling – while they were rendering their services for free and fair elections is deplorable. For example, a teacher Attaur Rehman, who was performing election ...
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The Sharif brothers have promised a bullet train for Pakistan and a metro bus service for Karachi! If they want to earn the gratitude of the common man, they should make efforts to put the Pakistan Railways back on track so that it once again ...
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PPP leaders in Punjab and ANP leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have conceded defeat in general elections but the PTI has yet to accept the reality. Nobody has come forward to explain the reasons behind the party’s poor performance.
Considering the ...
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In his article titled ‘Looking towards China’ (The News, May 15), Vice Admiral (r) Taj M Khattak very rightly advised Nawaz Sharif to visit Beijing to meet the new Chinese leadership. I am sure Sharif will pay heed to this sound advice.
He ...
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It has been widely reported that women voters were barred from voting in some constituencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least two written agreements have surfaced wherein the contesting parties’ local leadership agreed to bar women from voting. ...
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