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Dr. Sardar Manmohan Singh: A giant among pygmies

Dr. Sardar Man Mohan Singh the quite unassuming modest economist and former Prime Minister of India and the first from the Sikh community to be the...

07.01.2025 10

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Ghosts of 1971 tragedy

  December 16th 1971, a date that will live in infamy in the tumultuous history of Pakistan. It has now been 53 years since the 1971 war between...

31.12.2024 6

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

After Bashar Al Assad what now?

ANOTHER Arab dictator has bitten the dust, another tyrant of the Middle East has received his just desserts. The speedy and swift demise of the...

24.12.2024 20

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Bashar-al Assad: Another dictator bites the dust

THERE are about fifty five Muslim countries in the world today and unfortunately all of them are devoid of a democratic system of governance. Most...

17.12.2024 9

Pakistan Observer

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Dictatorship And Totalitarian Regimes Or Democracy

The worst democracy is better than a dictatorship. Human history is a witness that dictators throughout history have been the cause of immense...

11.12.2024 20

The Friday Times

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End of the protest what now?

IMRAN Khan the incarcerated founder of the PTI issued a final call for a protest movement starting on the 24th of November. The PTI juggernaut led...

10.12.2024 5

Pakistan Observer

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Politics of protest

POLITICS in Pakistan has entered a new and disturbing pattern that is launching street agitation and protest politics overlooking a policy of...

03.12.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Independent State of Palestine a pipe dream

AFTER the First World War and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles many areas of the former Ottoman Empire including Palestine were placed under...

26.11.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Baluchistan bleeds again

TERROR stalks the land again. Baluchistan is in the line of fire and the province of Baluchistan is bleeding profusely. The dark and sinister...

19.11.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Brain drain from Pakistan

Pakistan is in the throes of a serious and monumental crisis that is the flight of educated youth or brain drain from the country. So far the...

12.11.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Importance of peace between India and Pakistan

THERE are no two opinions about the fact that peace between India and Pakistan is not only necessary but also need of the hour in the interest of...

05.11.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Remaking of Middle East…

THE unfortunate people of Palestine belong to a nation without a country. Palestine has a population of over five millions with about 1.8 million...

29.10.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Hello neighbour, welcome to Pakistan

The Shanghai Cooperation organisation is an international alliance and consists of 10 member states and two observers. Pakistan hosted the Twenty-...

22.10.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Taliban refuse to learnt from history

THE Taliban movement was born in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, became very prominent and popular by 1994 and finally under the command of Mullah...

15.10.2024 10

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Winds of change in Pak-Bangladesh ties

EAST Pakistan seceded from Pakistan and becamean independent nation of Bangladesh in December 1971. It took many years for acrimony and bitter...

30.09.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

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Fall of Sheikh Hasina regime and lessons for Pakistan

SHEIKH Hasina Wajid, the iron lady of Bangladesh, daughter of the Bangabundhu Sheikh Mujib Ur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, ruled the...

23.09.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

India-Pakistan relations

INDIA and Pakistan the two nuclear power countries of south Asia have been daggers drawn since independence and now relations between the two have...

09.09.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Balochistan burning

BALOCHISTAN is burning, Pakistan’s biggest province is up in flames and the entire security apparatus of the Govt. appears to be helpless before...

02.09.2024 5

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

A goodwill visit

  Pakistan continues to take effective measures for promoting and strengthening bilateral relations with friendly countries around the globe...

29.07.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Protecting youth from terrorist’s organisations

This is very unfortunate that, terrorists’ organizations are hunting the youth of Pakistan for their nefarious and inhuman terrorist activities....

29.07.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Art of kindness

WHEN we think upon the values ofthe nation that is Pakistan, what first comes to mind? Unity, faith and discipline is what the Quaid tried to...

29.07.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Angling and human nature!

THE Corona-virus Pandemic has resulted in one positive development. It has obliged mankind to pause and reflect. In effect, it is long that man had...

29.07.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Crisis of education

29.07.2024 6

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

It is teamwork that counts!

OUR cricket appears to have hit rock bottom. Things just could not be any worse than they are at this juncture. The common Pakistani is perplexed...

22.07.2024 4

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Turmoil in Bangladesh

BANGLADESH has been dominated by the long-serving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the country’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur...

22.07.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

Pakistan’s energy crisis

22.07.2024 1

Pakistan Observer

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How to bring political stability

The Government of Pakistan has initiated some steps to put a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) as political Party. The decision was taken after...

22.07.2024 2

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

A reckless move

  IN a sudden and surprising move the Federal Minister of information and broadcasting Attaullah Tarar appeared on national television and dropped...

22.07.2024 3

Pakistan Observer

Tariq Aqil

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