Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

How should one celebrate the birthday of a 64-year old, which suffers from multiple serious failures of vital organs and is on its death bed according to some western doctors? A well-wisher would still throw a party to cheer up the patient, for this may actually help improve its condition. A sensible well-wisher would probably also request a [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine There are some leaders who remain immortal, for whom death does not pose the same barriers that it does for others. Departure from this mortal world only serves to augment their fame as they reside then inpeople’s hearts. Pakistan’s first democratically elected president is a potent example of these very [...]

People say good leadership is like a prized perfume. Its very first scented waft announces its presence with astonishing freshness. Bad leadership like skunk just stinks. Democracy is not a separate ideology from Islam. In fact democracy is very much there in Islam. There is no concept of dictatorship, popism (mullaiyat) and totalitarianism in [...]

Our Youth has a lot of energy, high hopes, great ideals and real potential to achieve almost everything in life.  In spite of having talent, skills and intelligence in this wonderful young generation, a born genius, it is very unfortunate. Pakistan's environment is not very helpful for it as it have no role models to follow, no opportunity for [...]

لبرل ووٹرز ،تنگ نظر قیادت پنجاب اور لاہور میں بریلوی مکتبہ فکر رکھنے والوں کی اکثریت ہے ،پر وہاں کے لوگوں نے کبھی مذہبی جماعت کو ووٹ نہیں دیے ،مطلب یہ کہ لوگ سیاست اور مذہب کو الگ رکھنا چاہتے [...]

What to say of an electronic media some of whose channels, for example, decided to place the cosmetic Shoaib-Sania saga at the top of their main 9:00pm news bulletins on the day the 18th Amendment was passed by the National Assembly and a terrible suicide bomb attack that ripped across a crowded area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Last week I visited [...]

Giving up power in Pakistan The man lampooned unfairly by the country’s powerful establishment as “Mr Ten Percent” has in fact given “One-Hundred-and-Ten Percent” back to the country Few leaders have emulated Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, who in 1985 relinquished all of his powers and voluntarily stepped down as president of the [...]

Munno Bhai's article on this topic: ماں کے ہاتھ کی پکی روٹی اور اپنی پسند کی موت...گریبان…منوبھائی یہ تو معلوم نہیں کہ ”اقوال زریں“ کیسے وجود میں آتے ہیں مگر یہ عالمی سچائی ضرب المثل بن چکی ہے کہ ”تاریخ کا [...]

Few students of Pakistani literature know that Faiz Ahmed Faiz translated Allama Iqbal's Payam-e-Mashriq into Urdu. An equally little-known fact is Iqbal's presence at the founding conference of the Progressive Writers Association. While Iqbal, being the national poet of a confessional state, has been "Islamised" beyond recognition, a section of [...]

Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was among those leaders of the world who shape the destinies of their peoples. Bhutto asserted Pakistan’s national independence when the country was a member of Western military pacts. It is his initiative in the 1960s that paved the way for Kissinger’s secret diplomacy with China, something that brought the [...]

PPP has a long history of a long lasting beautiful relationship with its workers. Its leadership did not forget, for a moment that its workers and people have primary importance. This is the reason behind slogans "Long Live Bhutto" and "Benazir Shall Rule". PPP leadership promoted liberal elements in every dimension of (more...)

Ik dalair aadmi, Hasmi, Hashmi. It seems that Fakhr-e-Asia Mian Muhammad Hair Transplant Nawaz Sharif has sidelined (disposed off?) Mr. Hashmi. (more...)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Sartaj Khan The militants in Swat once again attacked the veteran Pashtun nationalist leader Mohammad Afzal Khan on Jan 11 in his native village of Bara Durshkhela, in the Matta area in upper Swat. Mohammad Afzal Khan is the only feudal and political leader who is determined to oppose the Fazlullah-led [...]

Afzal Khan Lala vows to stay in Swat despite fresh attack Seeks arms for village militias to fight militants Monday, January 12, 2009 by Rahimullah Yusufzai PESHAWAR: [...]

DG FIA Tariq Pervez retires gracefullyMalik shows he has a heart of goldTuesday, December 30, 2008 (The News)By Tariq ButtISLAMABAD: The Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Tariq Pervez, refused to get extension and retired on Monday on attaining the superannuation age of 60.“Ask the advisor,” he told this correspondent [...]

People Who Mattered Most in 2008 (Time Magazine)Asif Ali ZardariPakistan's unfavored son ended last year by burying his slain wife Benazir Bhutto. He ends 2008 as the President of a nuclear-armed nation threatened by Islamic militancy and on the verge of economic collapse. Allegations of corruption against Zardari led in part to Bhutto's removal [...]

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