The writer, a Strategic and Political analyst, teaches international politics in NUML Islamabad Currently the world is sharply divided over how to define ‘Islamists’. Different schools of thought have their own meanings for this word. According to some, Islamists are fundamentalists who want to impose a system of Islamic laws on Muslim and non-Muslim populations alike. Others define Islamists as individuals who believe in having an Islamic system of governance in the country but wish…
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by Mariana Baabar & Wajid Ali Syed in the News, August 31, 2018 ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: Pakistan on Thursday categorically said it wanted an end to the controversy over a telephone call between Prime Minister Imran Khan and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We would want this episode to end. The foreign minister has already commented in detail. Politically, we need to move on,” Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal said in the weekly media…
by Tamim Hamid in Tolo News, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:24 PM The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday said Pakistan’s military establishment planned and provided the necessary aid to Taliban insurgents to carry out the coordinated attack on Ghazni city earlier this month. According to the MoI, foreign militants were also among those killed in the Ghazni battle, but Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul has hit out over the claims and said these claims are…
By Imran Ayub in Dawn, August 22nd, 2018 KARACHI: More than 100 police officers in Karachi have been identified and authorities are collecting details from their respective police stations in an attempt to move against them for their “connections with criminals or their activities”, a top-ranking official said on Tuesday. The fresh move came after newly-appointed Karachi police chief Dr Amir Ahmed Shaikh directed senior officials to bring reforms in the city police that had…
By Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The caretaker government, during its brief two-and-a-half-month tenure, estimated that Pakistan’s overall external debt servicing obligation would be $9.3 billion in the current fiscal year, which was slightly less than the gross official foreign currency reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The $9.3-billion external debt repayment and servicing requirement underscores the challenges the new Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will face in…
report in The Express Tribune, Aug 19, 2018 With the nation’s eyes set on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s inauguration as prime minister on Saturday, his wife’s outfit for the occasion also drew social media attention. Bushra Imran chose to wear a veil, but her choice was heavily criticised as ‘not fit’ for the country’s first lady. However, some admired her for dress modestly. Discourse in this regard has resurfaced after she assumed her…
by Naziha Syed Ali in Dawn, August 17th, 2018 AUG 17, 1988, 3.51pm: Pak-1, with Gen Ziaul Haq, president and army chief of Pakistan on board, slams into the ground a few miles out of Bahawalpur, near the Sutlej river. Besides the pilots, Wing Commander Mashhood Hassan and Flight Lieutenant Sajid, there are 29 people on the massive Lockheed C-130 Hercules. They include, among others, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Akhtar Abdur Rahman,…
by Saeed Ahmed in The News, August 16, 2018 Islamabad: Islamabad Chamber of Small Traders (ICST) on Wednesday said energy import from central Asia will be highly undependable therefore it should be reassessed lest the country waste billions of dollars in pursuit of energy security. TAPI gas pipeline and transmission lines from Central Asia would pass through volatile Afghanistan being ruled by pro-Indian politicians and militants which is a great risk, it said. The government…
by Mehtab Haider in The News, August 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD: To comply with 40 recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Pakistan’s key institutions have come up with a comprehensive plan by devising 11 immediate outcomes for avoiding further down gradation through upcoming evaluation by the Asia and Pacific Group (APG) from the next week. A delegation of the APG is scheduled to visit Pakistan from August 13 and will stay here for one…
by Habib Raja in The Express Tribune blogs, August 11th, 2018. The author is pursuing his PhD in political science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University. The results have apparently shown that, by and large, Pakistan does not vote Islamist. The 2018 Elections are over, giving a healthy but controversial victory to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). These elections were, according to many independent correspondents, one of the “dirtiest” in living memory, mainly due to the…
Was Jinnah wrong?: op-ed by Zubeida Mustafa in Dawn, Aug 31, 2018
MANY who listened to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden speech on Aug 19 would not have failed to note the striking similarities in his address and the Quaid-i-Azam’s oft-quoted speech of Aug 11, 1947. That’s not really surprising, given that Khan described Jinnah as his role model, one who practised politics with a mission. Both speeches expressed deep concern at the prevalence of corruption and the absence of justice for the poor. They also spoke…