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Self-Accountability

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The director general Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has informed a press conference the other day that such steps have been taken that would strengthen the tradition of self-accountability in the…

Calculated Gamble

Ishtiaq Ahmed The arrest of Imran Khan would be indicative of the political paralysis plaguing our nation. This would be another ugly turn towards civil disorder which the country can ill afford at anytime but more particularly in the…

President Attempts To End Crisis

Asem Mustafa Awan President Dr Arif Alvi has announced the schedule to hold the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assemblies elections on April 9. Clause 57-2 of the Constitution grants the president the authority to set the election date.…

Opportunity or Poisoned Chalice 

Ishtiaq Ahmed  At a meeting co-hosted by Islamabad and United Nations and attended by 40 private donors and financial institutions, a massive package of 10 plus billion dollars was announced to help the victims of recent floods. This…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

                                                                                  Editorial Pictorial Asem Mustafa Awan: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer…

Political Tug of War In Punjab

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Following the submission of a no-confidence motion by the Pakistan Democratic Alliance against Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the political pundits are gauging the pulse of the ongoing battle between…