The AJK & GB council fiasco
The PM and President of AJK are members of the council by virtue of their office only. All executive powers of the council are vested in its chairman — the PM of Pakistan
By: Manzoor Gilani Current Prime Minister (PM) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Raja Farooq Haider Khan, recently stirred up a debate related to directives issued by Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on February 15, ordering that the AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) councils be disbanded. These councils are designed to act as substitutes to Parliament […]
Art of scam management
BJP thought it had a huge rhetorical advantage on corruption but after Nirav Modi, it looks like this issue will be a draw
By: Pratap Bhanu Mehta Corruption and plutocracy were major issues in the 2014 election. Those issues helped delegitimise the UPA government. It is now worth asking how they are going to play out in the near future in the wake of the so-called Nirav Modi scam, and what ramifications they might have for India’s political […]
PNB Scam! Intentional or Management Failure
Diamond merchant Nirav Modi is the prime accused in the recently surfaced banking scam and is guilty of transmitting funds worth about 11,500 Crore from Punjab National Bank which is a Public Sector Bank. This scam is considered as one of the biggest banking scams in India and across the globe as well. This has […]
Life is beautiful
Ignorance of responsibility is no excuse.
As long as I have understood it, I think life is a beautiful thing. It’s a great blessing. Some things are more beautiful some less. Some things hurt, and some moments are testing, causing a lot of pain. But it’s all good, if you try to be good and spread goodness in all the directions. […]
RBA Category Needs Relook & Rethink
When & How it came into existence? After Independence, the first priority of the govt was to uplift the people who were poor, downtrodden, neglected and the tribes living primitive life in jungles and ravines. So, the govt of India appointed First Backward Classes Commission known as Khan Sahib Kalekar Commission on 29th Jan […]
The Unpious Pir
The jousting and collusion of prayer and power in Pakistan
By: Khaled Ahmed Pakistan says it is an ideological state but when heavily bearded, rotten-toothed, medieval-looking Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi comes out of his lair in Sial Sharif, Sargodha, Punjab, it looks like a mental asylum broken loose. That is what this 90-something-old man unleashed when he came out in January 2018 and said he and […]
Asma Jahangir, my fearless friend
Asma was loved in Pakistan, but no less in India, and whenever she gave a talk in India, the room — whatever its size — was always overfull
It is hard to find a measure of Asma Jahangir’s greatness. She was a brilliant intellectual, a superb humanist, a great political leader, an epitome of kindness, a personification of indomitable courage. Asma was all these things — and much more. Professionally she excelled as a magnificent lawyer — who did more than anyone else […]
Disqualification
In 2015, the Aam Aadmi Party swept the polls. It had to be neutralised.
IT is unfortunate that a question concerning the probity of public life should have become entangled in the cold war which the Narendra Modi government has launched against all non-BJP-ruled governments — in this instance the government of Delhi headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. At issue is the scope of the constitutional bar on […]
Series of scams could hurt Modi’s election prospects
Modi, who despite being in power for almost four years tends to blame everything on India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, has now blamed the scam on his predecessor
BY: Aditya Sinha India is seized with another banking scam. At the centre is Punjab National Bank (PNB), a nationalised bank. The culprit is diamond jeweller (or, as he prefers, “diamantaire”) Nirav Modi. The amount involved is Rs114 billion (approx $1.8 billion). PNB has localised the blame to a two low-level officials, who allowed diamantaire […]
Security pact for the Middle East?
Syria is a classic example of proxy war because Iran is supporting the regime of Bashar al Assad and Saudi Arabia is supporting the other side
In his speech delivered on the occasion of annual Munich Security Conference on February 16, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani came up with an innovative idea for a security pact for the Middle Eastern countries in order to establish peace and resolve contentious issues in the region. The Amir of […]
