updated Fri. April 19, 2024
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The News on Sunday
February 10, 2018
Everybody knows who wanted to retain undesirable provisions inserted in the Constitution by General Ziaul Haq in the name of so-called “Islamisation”. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was adamant to keep clauses of “sadiq and ameen” despite insistence from Pakistan People's Party and National AwamiÃâà...
The News on Sunday
February 10, 2018
India and Pakistan had long ago devised a mechanism to resolve issues at the level of Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) mainly related to ... In December last year, Pakistan's National Security Advisor, Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua, while speaking at a seminar, stated that “the stability ofÃâà...
The News on Sunday
February 3, 2018
'Nobody understands me' being a common refrain that many of us have voiced as young people but survived. ... In Pakistan, many of us still live in a joint family system and the parents of the people from my generation have mostly been lucky to have children around them to take care of them and moreÃâà...
The News on Sunday
February 3, 2018
Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak and the country's top spymaster Masoom Stanekzai, who is head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), spent a day holding meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Director General of the Interior-Services IntelligenceÃâà...
The News on Sunday
February 3, 2018
“Finish them and restore peace,” one of the sources quoted Nawaz Sharif as saying in a high level meeting in Karachi attended by General Nawaz. Gen. Nawaz as Corps Commander Karachi faced criticism when he allowed exchange of hostages between the PPP and MQM student wings. In May, 1992Ãâà...
The News on Sunday
January 6, 2018
Lt General Mian Hilal Hussain, who took over as the PGF President from Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam last November, has set himself on a mission to take Pakistan golf to the next level. Unlike the past when the PGF almost always failed to follow through on its plans to lift Pakistan golf, under General Hilal it seemsÃâà...
The News on Sunday
December 16, 2017
While Gen Mattis was being diplomatic and playing good cop in Pakistan, others like Gen John Nicholson, head of US forces in Afghanistan, as well as CIA director Mike Pompeo are of the view that the US is ready to do ... The general has a history of criticising Pakistan, accusing it of supporting terrorists.
The News on Sunday
November 18, 2017
He met the top Iranian leaders, both civil and military, ranging from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to the Chief of General Staff, General Mohammad Bagheri and Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary GuardÃâà...
The News on Sunday
September 16, 2017
Some misgivings about the alliance have been allayed though, according to Lt Gen. (retd) Talat Masood, senior defence analyst. “General Raheel Sharif leading the multi-nation army was initially a subject of severe criticism within the country and viewed by Iran with considerable skepticism. HoweverÃâà...
The News on Sunday
August 26, 2017
Many of our problems can be traced to the restricted space in which academics in general and social scientists in particular are allowed to operate. ... I was born in Pakistan and grew up hearing stories of the sacrifices made by my parents' generation — can pass on the baton to the generation representedÃâà...
