by Syed Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Dec 3, 2023QUETTA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday asked PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to rely on his own strength and popularity in the next elections instead of backing the ‘powerful circles’ to ensure his party’s victory. “Even in Punjab, people rejected you [Nawaz],” Bilawal said while addressing a news conference in Quetta at the end of this three-day visit to the provincial capital of Balochistan. “Don’t…
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AFP report, 07 Apr 2023The White House on Thursday released a long-awaited review of the traumatic US exit from Afghanistan, admitting there had been a massive intelligence failure in not predicting rapid Taliban victory, but defending overall US conduct. “Clearly we didn’t get things right” on intelligence, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters after the still classified report was sent to Congress. But “ending a war, any war, is not an easy endeavor,…
by M Alam Brohi in Daily Times, Nov 29, 2022The author was a member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan With the prolonged sit-in of PTI in Islamabad in 2016; the revelations of Panama Leaks involving Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family in corruption; his disqualification by the Supreme Court in 2017; the PTI victory in the general elections of 2018; the refusal of mainstream political parties including PML-N, PPP and JUI to concede defeat…