Don’t be fooled Imran Khan, this is not your revolution
The recent political turmoil of the country could not have staged itself at a worst time than this. With the army and the nation’s sentiments tied with over thousands Internally Displace People (IDPs)...
View ArticleFive baseless criticisms against PTI’s long march
For a good part of our history, we have treated the army as a sacred cow; a holy entity entrusted with the protection of all, going against which would allow our enemy to overtake us. Hence the whole...
View ArticleImran Khan’s fall from grace
Before I begin, let me confess to my deep love and respect for Imran Khan. His politics, his social work and his cricketing skills have shaped Pakistani society for good or for worse and as a member of...
View ArticleElection rigging: An inconvenient truth
It was the morning of May 11, 2013, Election Day. A day when majority of Pakistanis, having been fed a steady diet of political advertising where the various parties had promised them the world, woke...
View ArticleHow the twin-marches in Islamabad are affecting our economy
Bang! The first bullet shot in Model Town echoed through the streets of Lahore. We may never know what was going through the mind of the man who pulled that trigger or through the mind of the one who...
View ArticleMy leader can do no wrong
The air is ripe with the smell of revolution, amongst other more pungent smells, in the Red Zone of Pakistan’s capital. The Parliament and PM House remain under siege by a large number of supporters of...
View ArticleAitzaz Ahsan, I used to believe in you
Dear Sir, I am writing this letter to request you to reconsider your role in the current political crisis and to be on the right side of history. I, being a member of the educated middle class of...
View ArticleImran Khan: Always a crowd pleaser
It was September 22nd of last year; one of the blackest days in the history of Pakistan. It was a day when the Taliban targeted a church in Peshawar with a pair of suicide bombers who ripped through a...
View ArticleThe myth of vote in Imran Khan’s K-P local bodies election
Pakistan’s north-western province, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is ruled by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that has been fighting its election campaign promising ‘change’ and ‘real democracy’....
View ArticleHere is why PTI was ‘undemocratic and unconstitutional’ but ANP and JUI-F are...
Who were they? - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). What were they doing? - Protesting on roads. For what? -Against rigging – oh wait, “alleged” rigging – in the general elections 2013. What were their...
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