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Mohammad Zubair
Mohammad Zubair

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

  • October 04, 2022

    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...

  • March 15, 2022

    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...

  • February 04, 2022

    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....

  • January 11, 2022

    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...

  • December 29, 2021

    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...

  • September 16, 2021

    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...

  • August 07, 2021

    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...

  • July 19, 2021

    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...

  • June 20, 2021

    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...

  • May 19, 2021

    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...

  • May 10, 2021

    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...

  • April 19, 2021

    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...

  • April 06, 2021

    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...

  • March 26, 2021

    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...

  • March 11, 2021

    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...

  • March 03, 2021

    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...

  • February 23, 2021

    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...

  • February 03, 2021

    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 –...

  • January 15, 2021

    Quetta: tragedy and empathy

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

  • December 09, 2020

    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...

  • November 18, 2020

    The rise of Maryam Nawaz

    Whether one likes her or hates her, one cannot ignore the phenomenal rise of Maryam Nawaz on the political stage in Pakistan

  • September 03, 2020

    The debt trap

    Around June 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the setting up of a debt commission to investigate the increase in debt over the period...

  • August 20, 2020

    The fiasco at NAB

    It was never meant to end the way it did. What Lahore witnessed on August 11 in front of the NAB office was total anarchy.It was supposed to be a...

  • August 05, 2020

    Kashmir: one year on

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi was clear in his plans to make Indian Occupied Kashmir part of the Indian Union. In the election campaign for the 2019...

  • July 19, 2020

    The two-year scorecard

    The performance of the present government over the last two years has been dismal. The failure is spectacular – make no mistake about it. The...

  • June 22, 2020

    No end in sight

    The government’s narrative remains the same: we can either protect lives or livelihoods and, considering everything, it is livelihoods that will...

  • June 13, 2020

    A series of blunders

    After seeing it almost two years in power, we still don’t know why the PTI has not delivered anything at the federal or provincial levels.To be...

  • May 28, 2020

    NAB: a tragedy

    NAB is back in action – or so it seems. Having been discredited for the last two years, it is trying to make another attempt to restore its...

  • May 11, 2020

    Covid-19: where we stand

    In the end, we achieved nothing. In fact, we are much worse off than we were since the pandemic hit us in mid March.We have failed to contain the...

  • April 29, 2020

    Covid-19 and the economy

    For the first 19 months of the current government's tenure, economic failures were all attributed to the previous PML-N government or the mess of...

  • April 13, 2020

    The sugar scam

    The recent release of the FIA report on the sugar and wheat crises has once again exposed the lack of competence and capacity of the present...

  • March 30, 2020

    Leadership in the time of corona

    During his cricketing career, if there was one attribute that differentiated Imran Khan from other cricketers, it was his ability to lead from the...

  • March 17, 2020

    Unrealistic commitments

    In an interview to a private television channel recently, Minister for Planning Asad Umar said that the promise to provide one crore jobs still...

  • March 02, 2020

    Failed accountability?

    Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is finally out on bail after more than seven months in jail. There was more bad news for the PM and his party.Ahsan Iqbal, the...

  • February 19, 2020

    The crisis deepens

    There has been a huge failure if we see what was promised before the elections and what has been delivered. What led to such a catastrophic failure...

  • February 05, 2020

    A tale of incompetence

    Just a few weeks back, it all looked great for the ruling party – or so they thought. The opposition, on the other hand – mainly the PML-N –...

  • January 21, 2020

    The art of diplomacy

    Among Muslim countries, Turkey and Malaysia have achieved the kind of economic success that would be the envy of all others. They have set standards...

  • January 09, 2020

    Economy: better or worse?

    Are people better off today compared to August 2018 when the PTI took over the government at the federal level and in three provinces?This was the...

  • December 25, 2019

    Reading the judgment

    The death penalty given against General Musharraf by the special court has generated intense debate and added to the existing polarisation in the...

  • December 11, 2019

    Broken promises

    The agenda was to transform Pakistan into a modern welfare state – something Pakistanis had only dreamt but never seen before.This was Imran...

  • November 24, 2019

    The tomato controversy

    A few weeks back the finance adviser made the startling revelation that the price of tomatoes was Rs17 per kilo. The finance adviser probably...

  • November 05, 2019

    The art of spin

    The job of spin masters is to give a feeling of ‘All is well’ – even when the reality is the exact opposite. The present government has...

  • October 23, 2019

    Protest and politics

    Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s announcement about the long march or dharna has naturally evoked memories of the more famous dharna in 2014. There are...

  • October 05, 2019

    NAB: what accountability?

    Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Miftah Ismail and Maryam Nawaz have all been sent to jail after being kept in NAB custody for reasonable time periods. Whether...

  • September 18, 2019

    Where is the economy going?

    Mohammad Ali Tabba’s interview regarding business conditions has sent shockwaves across the country. Tabba is one of Pakistan’s best known and...

  • September 03, 2019

    Will things change?

    The economic situation continues to deteriorate even in the new fiscal year. With an IMF programme in full force, the challenges are enormous. Our...

  • August 21, 2019

    What next in Kashmir?

    Indian PM Narendra Modi has done what he promised in his election campaign. The repeal of Article 370 has been on the BJP agenda for a while. We in...

  • August 07, 2019

    The one-year scorecard

    July 25, 2018 ushered in a new era in our country’s history. Never in the past was a party was coming into power with so much hope and so many...