LUMS under pressure: EDITORIAL in Dawn, April 11th, 2015 AN event scheduled at LUMS had to be cancelled at the last minute “on order from the government”, according to the university’s official statement. The event was a panel discussion on Balochistan and one of the speakers was Mama Qadeer, who came to prominence when he led a march from Quetta to Islamabad to protest the brutal disappearances of Baloch youth that is the hallmark of…
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The visit of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan-Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), on April 9 to Karachi was brief and chaotic, but in hindsight may be seen as something of a watershed in the politics of the city. His visit was in support of the PTI candidate, Imran Ismail, who is contesting from the NA-246 (Karachi-VIII) by-election being held on April 23. There is a sense that the political sands in Karachi may be shifting, and the…
PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has stated at a press conference that Bilawal was undergoing training in London, and would enter politics gradually because of security risks. Well, if Altaf Hussain can rule from London, Bilawal can surely be trained away from home. But where and what is home for people like Bilawal who have lived a protected life abroad. For the PPP, the boy is just the last chance for Bhuttoism to survive, else…
Imran’s big political risk: by Malik Muhammad Ashraf in The News, Apr 11, 2015
The writer is a freelance contributor. The movement launched by Imran and Qadri, ostensibly to topple the PML-N government had all the trappings of a conspiracy if revelations made by General Aslam Mirza, Javed Hashmi and Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s brother are to be believed. The architects of the movement chose to challenge the entire outcome of the 2013 general elections and assigned this role to Imran Khan, while Qadri was encouraged to rub in the…