Mohammad Zubair

Mohammad Zubair

The writer is the spokesperson for Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, and former governor Sindh.

  • Maryam’s triumph

    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...

  • Some grace, Mr PM

    Some grace, Mr PM

    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...

  • A phenomenal rise

    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....

  • What happened in Murree?

    When you appoint the likes of Usman Buzdar and Mahmood Khan as chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa respectively, what exactly is the...

  • Beginning of the end?

    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...

  • Cantonment elections

    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 economic scorecard

    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 in the dock

    NAB is again making headlines – but for all the wrong reasons. In an embarrassing few days, various high courts have issued detailed judgments...

  • Electoral politics in Punjab

    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...

  • Blunders and clarifications

    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...

  • PTI and the by-elections

    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 cabinet reshuffle

    ‘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...

  • The change at the finance ministry

    The change at the finance ministry

    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...

  • Fifty years on

    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 Senate defeat

    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...

  • The accountability circus

    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...

  • Where is the debt report?

    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...

  • The corruption narrative

    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 –...

  • Quetta: tragedy and empathy

    Quetta: tragedy and empathy

    The brutal murder of the Shia Hazara miners was tragic enough but what followed in the aftermath was even worse.

  • PML-N vs PTI: the economic scorecard

    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...