Pakistan

APML urges army to intervene

Source: ET ISLAMABAD: Close associates of former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf have asked top military leadership to intervene in the issue immediately before tensions between state institutions get worse. “Top military leadership will come into action [as an ex-general is being denied justice],” Major General (Retd) Rashid Qureshi, a close […]

Secret state

Source: ET We have a state shrouded in secrecy. In fact, even the media which is expected to bring facts to light and keep the public informed has its own secrets to hide. The problem begins with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the funds available to it for […]

A blood-soaked election

Source: Friday Times: On April 11, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took responsibility for killing Fakhrul Islam, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) candidate for the National Assembly and Sindh Assembly. Islam was shot in Hyderabad by two armed men riding a motorbike. The ubiquitous TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan called a newspaper […]

Game over:

Source: ET Musharraf nomination papers were rejected from all four constituencies he had applied for. “Yes, his paper has been rejected by the high court. We will file an appeal in the Supreme Court,” Musharraf’s lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told AFP. Earlier, the High court Rawalpindi bench election tribunal and […]