Pakistan: Top Judges Attack PM Gilani With Poetry and Threats

The Supreme Court calls for an “Arab Spring” uprising. The opposition already calls him “the former prime minister of Pakistan.” His country’s Supreme Court has declared him “wicked”—a “criminal” seeking political “martyrdom through disobeying the law.” It may be a good thing for Yousaf Raza Gilani that he claims descent from Sufi saints, since he’ll [...]

Are the Western Intelligence Agencies Using the NGOs in Pakistan?

In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the CIA to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days after the Bin Laden raid a year [...]

Osama’s Compound in Abbottabad

The Floor That Didn’t Exist The compound was a perfect place for a discreet yet comfortable retirement. It was to the placid environs of Abbottabad that bin Laden, half a decade after his great victory on 9/11, decided to escape. By the spring of 2011, the terrorist mastermind was in his sixth year of hiding [...]

What Have the Balochi Done to Deserve Such Treatment?

The Balochistan population (Baloch, Pashtun, Brahvi, Hazarra and settlers) are not adequately represented in the Federal decision and policy making, economic exploitation which is akin to the circumstances surrounding the 1971 East Pakistan debacle. The fact is that the 1973 Constitution is contradictory in its articles and fundamental rights enshrined in it. Articles 1, 246, [...]

Who is Responsible for the April 20 Bhoja Air Crash in Islamabad?

The April 20, 2012 tragic crash of a Bhoja Air’s Boeing-737 aircraft inRawalpindiraises nauseating revelations about the relaunching of the airline’s operations as a “political favour”. The inauguration of Bhoja Air on March 3, 2012 was only possible following the exertion of immense political pressure on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The Boeing-737-200 crashed on [...]

Kamran Shafi Calls Army’s Indulgence in the Media `Monkey Business’

Monkey business-military set to expand media outreach across country by Kamran Shafi What the devil is going on? Why is there no reaction from the sitting government, and the leaders of the political parties in the opposition including the self-proclaimed future prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan; why none from the various spokespeople who regale [...]

How Money Can be Recovered from the Swiss Banks?

As much as half the assets stowed in Swiss banks, estimated by experts at $2 trillion, may be undeclared money”, according to Charles de Boissezon, presently Chief Executive of Geneva-based Indian Hinduja private bank and former head of Switzerland’s Banque Piguet. Switzerland and Germany have signed a Supplementary Protocol that complements the tax agreement of [...]

Rental Power Projects’ Contracts Declared illegal

The government of PPP and its allies — facing serious and multiple allegations of corruption, inefficiency and bad governance — is continuously defending its financial crimes, tax evasion, plundering and wasting of taxpayers’ money. In its 90-page judgement, the Supreme Court has declared the contracts of all rental power projects (RPPs) illegal and violative of the principle [...]

What a Fall for Pakistan

by Nadeem F. Paracha  Over the years many from within and outside Pakistan have been emailing me complaining that whenever they tried to look for pictures of Pakistan on the internet that have little or nothing to do with vicious looking mullahs, suicide bo mb ings and mutilated bodies, they have failed. I’ve been scouting [...]

Fisherfolk of Pakistan

Fisherfolk Blues… By Qurat Mirza Fishermen all around the world are the most marginalized and neglected sect, they face the same problem against the big corporations, against their own governments, against environmental pollution, global warming etc that is causing depletion of fish stocks day by day. There are 4 millions vessels all around the world, [...]