by Faraz Saeed in Daily Times, Nov 11, 2020Relationship between Pakistan and United states has been both cooperative and conflictive, in their brief checkered history, but as U.S President- elect Joe Biden is set to occupy White House in Washington as the 46th president of the United States for the next four years, what’s in it for Pakistan? Following a grand slam home run for Joe Biden in 2020 US presidential election, Islamabad has already…
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UNLIKE most ‘midnight knocks’ in this country of late, this one has at least had some consequences for the perpetrators. A statement by the ISPR yesterday said the ISI and Rangers officials involved in the “Karachi incident” have been removed pending further departmental proceedings for having acted “overzealously”. It was in the early hours of Oct 19 that Rangers personnel, accompanied by some intelligence officials, had arrived at IG Sindh Mushtaq Mahar’s home and compelled…
With a core part of the PDM leadership occupied in the campaign for the upcoming GB elections, the efforts against the government have not really taken a backseat either. The opposition alliance is now looking to come to terms on a charter that will determine the course of the movement in the months to come. The most salient feature of this charter will be that it will include the way politics should be engaged with…
As a Muslim league child, I am appealing to the Prime Minister (PM) to ban all factions of the Pakistan Muslim League for repeatedly derailing democracy in the republic. The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was the founding party of Pakistan. On August 14, 1947 after the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, AIML ceased to exist as a unified party under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah father of the new nation. After taking oath as…
So far, the 11-party alliance, made up of opposition parties, which has said it is on a mission to overthrow the government, has been able to stand firm. Whether this can continue into the future as we move into what seems to be a long winter is questionable. There have already been differences within the alliance over a number of issues, even over who the alliance says ‘selected’ Imran Khan as prime minister. This issue…
There are cracks in the PDM. And they are pretty visible. The point of disagreement, if not discord, is the PML-N’s “revolutionary” narrative which not only targets the establishment but also pinpoints personalities. PPP, a major constituent of the 11-party opposition alliance, as well as ANP are not comfortable with Nawaz Sharif specifying elements in the establishment who, according to him, brought about his fall and Imran Khan’s rise to power. The two parties, however,…
The impact a high literacy rate for women can have is enormous. In Pakistan, the current literacy rate for women, officially, stands at around 47 percent. Many believe it is actually considerably lower than this. There are also fewer girls enrolled in schools, even though this number has risen sharply over the last two decades, and more girls drop out of schools at the primary or secondary levels, compared to boys. Very few go on…
It’s time to ask China for another favour. It turns out that the $3 billion trade facility, which the Chinese first extended in 2011 and then re-extended repeatedly at our request, is due to expire once again next year. That makes this the time when we approach Beijing, as usual, and ask for yet another rollover. The Chinese have truly been our dearest friends and have always come to our aid, of course, but there…
by Mehmil Khalid Kunwar in The Nation blogs, Nov 10, 2020 at 9:08 PMAn enlightened citizen is a proof that a state is truly running on democratic lines. Democracy cannot flourish in a region where the inhabitants do not know the actual performance of the people they have elected or where they are denied their basic fundamental rights. According to the traditional concept of democracy, a citizen when elects his representative, is fully equipped with…
The police force mostly deals with crimes and criminals to enforce order, but sometimes it has to deal with criminals within its own ranks. Cases out of the ordinary occur when some policemen themselves do what they are not supposed to do. There are black sheep in the police, but such rotten stuff is there in every sphere of life. On Nov 7 in Karachi, the police arrested a head constable of the Anti-Car Lifting…
The impact of US elections : by Talat Masood in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2020
The writer is a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army and a former federal secretary.The majority of the world must have taken a huge sigh of relief on Joe Biden’s victory. While the President-elect is not expected to bring about a transformational change in the United States or to have a radical impact on the world, sanity, decency and logic in national and global affairs would prevail. The absence of these during the last…