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Source: Daily Times Zardari has spawned an entire genre of yellow journalism. He has never sued, jailed, or harmed anyone for levelling the basest and meanest allegations at him “Pakistan’s nuclear assets are not safe as long as Zardari exists ,” said Shah Mehmood Qureshi a couple of weeks ago. This is gutter politics based upon [...]

We are celebrating the 45th Foundation Day of Pakistan Peoples Party through the auspices of which, proper democracy and constitution got introduced first time in Pakistan. From 1947 to 1973 we had failed to formulate an effective constitution but PPP managed it within a couple of years after taking power. We knew Democracy by its name but were [...]

The political history of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has been one of relentless and unyielding struggle to restore democracy in Pakistan in the face of overwhelming resistance by the forces of tyranny and dictatorship. Though this history is rich with the stories of strong and courageous individuals, any history of the PPP, or that of [...]

There was a momentary period of satisfaction and fulfillment that followed some mind blowing statements by one of the mainstream political leader. It was just a few months back that PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif vowed not to derail the democratic process, restored after a long struggle. He also pledged to foil all conspiracies aimed at disrupting [...]

I told my nine year old daughter to dismantle the tent that she was hanging out in and was set up inside the room. She ignored me in her usual nine years old way -- pretending she did not hear me. At my insistence, she dismantled the tent, and then said "here, now I have dismantled the oppressive establishment". This must be the line she heard on [...]

Karachi, the unfortunate city is once again burning; the current wave of bloodshed, target killing and terror rattled the city once again. It is presenting like wore torn city, bullet riddled bodies, corpses, fire engulfed vehicles, buses and buildings. This is not the first time, the people of Karachi witnessed it a regular drill. After coming [...]

Since 2004 Pakistan has faced the largest number of Suicide bombings in almost all major cities of Pakistan. Yesterday I was reading an article on daily metro published from London, in which there was some news about Inter faith dialogue and religious harmony. There were Christians, Hindu, Muslims and Jews scholars present at that dialogue. At [...]