Accountability

Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has emerged as a powerful voice against the government in recent days. From his election campaign in 2018 to his first speech in parliament, Mr Bhutto-Zardari has won accolades for being a voice of reason and sanity. From calling Prime Minister Khan ‘selected PM’ to being extremely vocal …

London: In August Pakistan will complete 72 years of its independent and sovereign existence. Its creation was a unique phenomenon. The entire Pakistan Movement was an epitome of honesty in leadership, sincerity of purpose, dedication, determination and moral courage that made the idea of a separate Muslim state possible. Quaid’s biographer, late Professor Stanley Wolpert …

Pakistan is a country that claimed to be created in the name of Islam. Islam’s whole edifice stands on two basic principles; social justice and ethics. In contemporary Pakistan, both canons of Islam seem missing. Thus, we may derive that Pakistan was an outcome of an international environment instead of any ideological underpinnings. When Prime …

While celebrating 79th National Day, many Pakistanis expressed bafflement as to how a state purportedly created in the name of ‘Islam’ is juxtaposed with the term ‘Republic’. They wonder how a Parliament, where majority is not that of theologians, enacts Western-inspired laws and yet claims that Shariah is supreme. In the Western world, ‘republic’ is …

Lahore: Pakistani people, who have become an over-drugged society, keep suffering the conspiracies of pharmaceutical mafia, assisted by doctors and Drug Reglatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP), as the recent 15-19 percent increase in the prices of medicines itself is killing patients. Pharmaceutical companies have increased prices of several life-saving drugs up to 40 percent, Truth Tracker …

Islamabad: The tussle for powers between Governor and Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa not only causes inordinate delay in mainstreaming of former tribal districts but also alienating people of these troubled regions from central and provincial governments. Last week, both the governor and the chief minister held separate meetings about the administrative and financial management of …

Lahore: Budgets, mini or otherwise, are meant to generate finances, and this is what the cash-starved government did for the second time in its first six months in power. As Finance Minister Asad Umar delivered the mini-budget speech on January 23 in Parliament, he hardly came up with any measure to contain domestic borrowings from …

Quetta: Wearing red kameez, black Shalwar and Dupatta, face of Shazia, an inhabitant of Darul-Amman, Quetta, was half covered. She looked angry when she uttered a few words, without having an eye contact. She looked an aggressive and traumatized person. Shazia was married against her will and was brought to Quetta from Peshawar where she …

Lahore: On January 15, Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted: “In a Parliament that costs taxpayers billions yearly, yet another walkout in NA by the Opposition shows that this is the only function they intend to perform. These are pressure tactics to seek an NRO & evade accountability for corruption in NAB cases not initiated by …

Lahore: In pursuit of their ambitious agenda of putting the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) top leadership behind bars, the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) government seems to have adopted the blatant a collision course with the top court’s chief justice by refusing to remove PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister from the ban travel …