An overview of 1990 general elections: The game gets dirtier

IT would seem that regardless of the number of years that have elapsed since the dark shadow of Gen Ziaul Haq's orthodox version of religion was first cast over the country, the legacy of the military dictator simply refuses to go away. Indeed, in ...

The first time I asked my mother what love was, she answered with a single word....read more Mohammad Shehzad Political Cartoons shares this funny photo in which a bat has been put on a coffin and the PTI [Pakistan Tehrik Insaf] youth is mourning ...

The ghost of General Ziaul Haq and his drive to turn Pakistan into a theocracy continues to haunt us. Under immense pressure from the courts and clerics, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is seemingly undertaking a purge of politicians who ...

The Chaudhrys crossed over to Gen Pervez Musharraf after the 1999 coup. They maintain that they only defected from the Sharifs, who chose exile over imprisonment. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. — File Photo. Chaudhry Zahoor ...

ISLAMABAD: A lawyer representing former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf cautioned the judiciary on Monday that if he was prosecuted for abrogating the constitution, he would not go down alone. The role the judiciary played by validating ...

GEN Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's warning against separating Islam from Pakistan's polity or politics should not surprise anyone because Islam has been used as a battle cry by almost all Muslim warriors across the globe and throughout the ages, even when ...

There is little common ground to make parleys meaningfulThe army has finally announced its policy towards the Taliban. Gen Kayani says the war the army is fighting is Pakistan's war and that anti-democratic forces would never be acceptable. He said ...

The Supreme Court on Monday made history by issuing notice to former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf for subverting and holding the constitution in abeyance and directed him to personally appear in court today (April 9), besides directing the ...

voter turnout for the National Assembly elections was 55.02 per cent, an all-time high despite threats of terror attacks. — File Photo ISLAMABAD, May 21: Against a general perception that the emergence of a third force would adversely affect the ...