As Pakistan celebrates its 75th birthday, it seems as if all the vulnerabilities—political, social, diplomatic and economic— that had confronted the new born on August 14, 1947 have become even more forbidding. As a result, the state of democracy in Pakistan has remained largely wanting with three longish direct military rules plus a short one […]
The ‘selectors’ do not seem to be all that sanguine anymore about the ‘selected’. Therefore, perhaps, the emergence of Tareen group? There is some kind of logic to this theory. In the first place, Tareen himself and his 40 or so group of ‘electables’ are just that— ‘electables’, per force at the beck and call […]
150SharesThe Iftar-dinner hosted last week by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa for around 35 journalists, mostly anchorpersons, has kept the media grapevine busy round the clock with first-hand stories related by second- and third-hands as to what had transpired between the General and the journalists over what is said to have […]