Edit in The Business Recorder,06 Oct 2022Addressing a large gathering in the Azad Kashmir capital Muzaffarabad last week, former prime minister Imran Khan said “you know very well that every country derives benefits from trade. India is a big country and Pakistan would also have benefited from trade with it,” adding that it had to be stopped due to India’s August 2019 illegal revocation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomous status. Even before that formal…
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The Pakistan Foreign Office has sharply rebuked Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar for remarks in which he termed Pakistan a state which harboured international terrorism, while praising the progress made by India. Pakistan has rightly termed this statement to be completely untrue and pointed out that India is guilty of multiple abuses of human rights, most commonly after 2015 and the takeover in 2014 by the BJP government. This government has in fact encouraged violent…
WEDNESDAY’S deadly attack on three Chinese-origin individuals in Karachi’s Saddar area demonstrates the threat separatist militant outfits pose to the city’s fragile security, particularly to Chinese citizens working or settled in Pakistan. A suspect posing as a patient opened fire on a dental clinic run by Dr Richard Hu, injuring the doctor and his wife while the dentist’s employee Ronald Chou died on the spot. All three victims were of Chinese origin but reportedly held…
by Arifa Noor in Dawn, Sept 27th, 2022The writer is a journalist.……..The institution: This year has also laid bare the crisis among those who cannot be named. Never before have their role been discussed so much and so loudly. And it is not just because of the hushed whispers of the differences of opinion within but more because of the events leading to the vote of no-confidence. The popular explanation which has emerged since is…
Edit in The Business Recorder,27 Sept 2022In its latest report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent bipartisan body, had said religious freedom conditions in India had “significantly worsened” in 2021, noting that the “government continued to systemize its ideological vision of a Hindu state at both the national and state levels through the use of both existing and new laws and structural changes hostile to the country’s religious minorities. ”…
by Ali Khizar in Business Recorder, Sept 26, 2022The writer is the Head of Research at Business Recorder.Several major developments took place last week. Pakistan’s political leadership, including PM Shehbaz Sharif, was in the US holding talks for external debt restructuring and debt repayment suspensions. The US, UN (United Nations), WB (World Bank), IMF International Monetary Fund), among other multilaterals, all favoured support for Pakistan. On the flipside, Pakistan’s PM made a shocking statement on…
by Ahmed Bilal Mehboob in Dawn, September 26th, 2022The writer is president of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency.FORMER prime minister Imran Khan may have his own reasons to lash out at the ‘establishment’, but the fact is that the subject of civil-military relations has been around for a long time. However, it has never been discussed so openly in Pakistan as the PTI chairman has done recently. The candour and bitterness of…
by Maleeha Lodhi in Dawn, September 26th, 2022The writer is a former ambassador to the US, UK & UNIN his opening address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary General António Guterres issued a stark warning about the troubled state of the world. “We are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction”, as a result of geopolitical divides, turmoil, deadly conflicts, climate catastrophes, food crisis, rising inequality and poverty. This dire situation held great peril, especially with trust…
Report in Dawn, Sept 26th, 2022TOBA TEK SINGH: The Faisalabad’s Peoples Colony police registered a case on Sunday against 15 unidentified people for attacking journalist Munawar Iqbal. In his FIR, complainant Munawar claimed that late on Saturday, he was on his way home from the office on Satiana Road when 15 attackers, riding two cars and four motorcycles, intercepted his car and opened indiscriminate fire, leaving his car damaged. They beat him severally, snatched Rs755,000…
by Ali Anwar in Daily Times, Sept 25, 2022The writer is a freelance columnist, entrepreneur and social activist.In my previous column, I have discussed in great detail the system of meritocracy in the Pakistan Army. Every officer who reaches the rank of General is equally competent to lead one of the best armies in the world. It doesn’t mean that the General who fails to become the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) lacks the ability…
The phenomenon of Imran Khan and politics
by Inam Ul Haque in The Express Tribune, Oct 6, 2022.the writer is a retired major generalIn December 2020, I wrote; Imran Khan — the dying pangs of a dream. The cited Op-Ed was based on the performance of the then PTI government, its relative unease at handling the economy and the pitfalls of not being on the same page with the Military. Things unfolded as projected, except that IK now symbolises even more the…