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It's been an open secret for a long time that the judiciary in Pakistan is not really independent (that's the case in most countries...

Embed from Getty Images Most people had lost faith in democracy after seeing people like Trump and Modi getting elected. But there is some h...

The cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel has been approved by both parties. Initially, Hamas will release forty eight hostages and Israe...

For some reason, we see more and more non-Muslim states openly opposing Israel. On the other hand, leaders of Muslim countries are lukewarm ...

Embed from Getty Images Sometimes you can't help thinking that Imran Khan and all his cronies should be put in a mental asylum. One wo...

Embed from Getty Images If Pakistan had been like China or Saudi Arabia, Imran Khan would have been sentenced to death and buried last yea...

Embed from Getty Images Imran Khan, being the psycho he is, has tried every trick under the sun to destabilize the government and defame ...

I never went to East Pakistan when it was part of Pakistan. In fact, there was some talk of sending me to Chittagong a month before the mass...

There's a lot of talk about the recent elections being heavily rigged. One way of disproving this is to look at pre-election surveys don...

Embed from Getty Images With the denial of the "bat" symbol to PTI, it's almost certain that support of independents (mostly ...

Khawar Maneka, the ex-husband of Bushra Bibi (Imran Khan's current wife) has suddenly appeared and cast aspersions against his wife. We ...

This question has always perplexed me. We have seen, in recent years, George Bush waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, killing millions of M...

One of the defects in Pakistan's politics is that the prime minister is not popularly elected. He needs to persuade only 172 elected par...

The recent attack by Hamas has the support of almost all Muslims in the world. The only ones who disapprove of it are of course the Middle E...

I have written many times about the huge damage done to the country's economy by misuse of the Afghan Transit Trade facility. Goods impo...

Embed from Getty Images Like many of his predecessors, the present army chief (Asim Muneer) thinks he can steer the country out of its pre...

Arif Alvi is the only Pakistani politician I have known. Before he entered politics, he was a dentist. But I never got treated by him. It...

The most heavily rigged election in Pakistan was the one held in 2018, when the entire establishment ganged up to ensure that Imran Khan...

I always knew Nawaz Sharif is an idiot, but even I did not ever suspect he'd go so far as to prove it. The current government is schedul...

In June 1984, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi called General Zia ul Haq and told him about a cyclone headed towards Karachi. Those living...