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...