Monday, May 13, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Voters in Pakistan have generally been giving a mature verdict in general elections and the outcome of the 2013 polls is no different. It is a sign of maturity that they have voted for a single party to form the federal ...

Sunday, May 12, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s first winner in the 2013 general election from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday was a 49-year old engineer whose family has never taken part in politics. Engineer Hamidul Haq did his BSc in civil ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
PESHAWAR: Maulana Fazlur Rahman has been contesting every election in his native Dera Ismail Khan since the death of his father, Maulana Mufti Mahmood, who won a famous victory against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for the lone National ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
NA-1 Peshawar: ANP’s Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is struggling to retain the seat in the face of stiff competition by several contenders, notably PTI Chairman Imran Khan. The PPP has a proven votebank in Peshawar city but its workers appear ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Manipulation is part of the game in elections as every tactic is used to discredit and defeat the opponents. Social media has become a major source of disinformation because it provides anonymity. This writer was a victim of ...

Friday, May 10, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
When it came under repeated attack by the militants during the election campaign, the Awami National Party (ANP) coined a powerful slogan, “watan ya kafan” (homeland or coffin), reiterating its commitment to offer sacrifices for the ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl head Maulana Fazlur Rehman has repeatedly been warning that any attempt to block the way of his party, which believes in peaceful political change, will open the way for non-state actors and prove harmful ...

Saturday, May 04, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
Charsadda is the birthplace of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar movement he founded to mobilize volunteers willing to serve humanity and undertake a non-violent struggle for independence from British ...

Thursday, May 02, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
A controversy has been brewing over the candidature of the father and brother of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s governor in the upcoming general elections. Engineer Shaukatullah Khan will apparently be the only governor in Pakistan’s ...

Saturday, April 27, 2013
Rahimullah Yusufzai
At the tender age of 67, Anwar Saifullah Khan will face a do-or-die battle in his native constituency in what may also be his last prospect of becoming Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)’s chief minister. “I am the chief minister in ...