Naqvi pledges ‘merit over politics’ in FIA hiring – Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday vowed to keep political influence out of more than 1,300 new appointments in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), two weeks after the country’s premier probe body advertised its largest hiring drive in years. During a visit to FIA headquarters, Naqvi said “merit and transparency must be ensured at […]
Pakistan is a young country that cannot remain in the politics from decades ago – Pakistan
Updated 05 Mar, 2024 Like the party symbol issue, the legality of the latest ECP determination will also be decided by the superior judiciary. 05 Mar, 2024 Brick by brick, the Sangh is seeking to destroy the edifice of Muslim civilisation in India that goes back a millennium. 05 Mar, 2024 IN an uncharacteristic twist […]
Call to keep establishment out of politics to strengthen federation: panelists – Pakistan
KARACHI: Panellists in one of the sessions at the ongoing Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) on Saturday observed that it was imperative to keep the security establishment out of politics in order to make the federation stronger. They were of the view that this could only be done by putting effective checks and balances. The panellists […]
Mirza family routed from Badin politics
KARACHI: The Mirza family of Badin, long-time adversaries of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and outspoken critics of the Zardari family, has been routed, losing all seats from the district for the first time since their entry into parliament in 1993. Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, the former home minister of Sindh, his wife Dr Fehmida Mirza, […]
‘Hostage’ voters or game changers? The politics of (s)electables – Pakistan
Pildat president says electables are politicians who can be elected without the support of a political party because of their cultural or religious clout. With the Feb 8 general elections fast approaching, major political parties have scrambled to woo electables across Pakistan, trying to out-manoeuvre each other in a bid to boost their prospects post-Feb […]
Politics of disenfranchisement: Why Pakistan’s youth no longer believes in the sanctity of the vote – Pakistan
With a barrage of challenges awaiting the incoming government, Pakistan’s cyclical dystopia perseveres. Another meaningless election. Another debilitated government. Another divided house. And round and round we go. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing truly dies.” — Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption For Rehan Shamsi, 61, hope […]
Nawaz’s ‘politics of revenge’ harmful for country: Bilawal – Pakistan
CHINIOT: Continuing his verbal onslaught against the PML-N supreme leader ahead of elections, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned that Nawaz Sharif’s politics of revenge would badly harm the country and its economy if he is voted to power again. Addressing an election rally at a hockey stadium in Satellite Town here on Tuesday, he said […]
Efforts on to revive Hazara province politics – Pakistan
HARIPUR: With the nation going to polls on Feb 8, the politics on creation of Hazara province has also witnessed a revival but without electable candidates, who once used the slogan for their re-entry into the parliamentary politics. The PML-N leadership, whose supremo Nawaz Sharif is contesting elections from Hazara for the second time after […]
Bilawal wants Punjab to bury politics of vindictiveness – Pakistan
SAHIWAL: Punjab will be the battleground between ‘arrow’ and ‘lion’ — the electoral symbols of PPP and PML-N — in the upcoming elections, but it will not be based on revenge, hatred and further divisions in society, as people will bury the politics of vindictiveness and align with the progressive manifesto of PPP on February […]
Bilawal tells PTI workers to support PPP in polls, vows to eliminate ‘politics of revenge’ – Pakistan
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday called on PTI workers to support his party in the upcoming general election, vowing to “bury politics of revenge”. “I have experienced the oppression of the PML-N and I would never wish for any political party worker to endure such hardship,” he told a public meeting in Lahore, where […]