Opinion

Asem Mustafa Awan President Dr Arif Alvi has announced the schedule to hold the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assemblies elections on April 9. Clause 57-2 of the Constitution grants the president the authority to set the election date.…

Asem Mustafa Awan Indiscriminate wastage of national resources is alarming, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed his displeasure while heading a meeting on energy saving measures over the performance of the National Energy…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: It is an endless tale of tyranny. Generation after generation have endured religious hatred, oppression, cruelty and denial of freedom from Indian occupation. Every year thousands are slain, raped, maimed and…

Ishtiaq Ahmed London: Suicide is deemed Haram in Islam and there are no two opinions about it. Murder is equally haram. Islam considers murder to be the most heinous crime against a person. Therefore, let’s have no remorse for the…

Mohammed Ajeeb London: Yesterday when I was browsing through my archive I came across a quite lengthy article which was written by me about 10 years ago and published in the International Daily News London in two instalments. It…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The entire country was submerged in darkness, but according to the Minister for Energy, Khurram Dastagir, this was ‘business as usual’, a minor glitch and nothing to worry about but a ‘voltage fluctuation’.…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: There is always some level of sleaziness, political corruption, misuse of privileges, bending of rules and personal aggrandisement in government circles across countries and nations. It shouldn’t be but it is the…

Mohammed Ajeeb Islamabad: Both the external and internal debts of Pakistan have reached an all-time high, and foreign exchange reserves have plummeted to rock bottom. On all accounts, the economy of the country is in a perilous state,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: These three siblings walk for miles on daily basis to obtain water. They have grown up carrying these containers because the most precious natural resource of clean water is denied to them. Their daily quest…

Ishtiaq Ahmed  Bradford: At a meeting co-hosted by Islamabad and United Nations and attended by 40 private donors and financial institutions, a massive package of 10 plus billion dollars was announced to help the victims of recent…