There will be no resignations by PTI in Punjab,KP, GB and AJK. Business will be as usual.If Punjab Govt is wrapped up it will be wrapped up by PDM and not PTI. BUT, if PTI goes against all logic and dissolves Punjab and KP Assemblies it will be writing its own political obituary Ever since April 2022 ie soon after the VONC removed the PTI Govt I have maintained that there will be no early elections and that the PDM Govt will go all the way.That is how it has been so far. Unfortunately, PTI is a Party that lacks political acumen in its higher hierarchy.

Motorways,Expressways and Highways under National Highway Authority are under the Federation.Governor Houses etc are Federal property.Any act committed against the Federation anywhere in Pakistan can be handled,including arrests,by the Federal Govt using Rangers,FC and the Army In that situation should a Provincial Govt,on the orders of its CM,try to hinder the Federation’s actions the Federation has the power to rectify the situation through arrests etc using paramilitary forces and it can even disarm that Province’s police for mutiny against the State

This is the list of bureaucrats given to Broadsheet for investigating their assets,accounts etc.I was amused to see my name here.I speak ONLY for myself and ask the Pakistani relevant authorities and Broadsheet to publish whatever they found on me or say they found NOTHING Let me say that while I did wield immense State power and had access to sizable funds I acquitted myself honorably of the trust reposed in me by the then PM SMBB and the State of Pakistan.Yet,I hav been politically victimized all along since 96;ONLY because I was SMBB’s Int Chief

People who do not possess a sense of self respect,a high level of dignity,a solid sense of honor and an utmost level of pride in their being and existence become immune to humiliation.When people lose their pride and become a commodity not even extreme humiliation can touch them Nations too must have honorable attributes in a collective manner so as to become nations that are integrated,have a head-held-high with national pride posture so as to be treated with respect.This will never happen in a country where everyone lives in fear and compromises

5th Generation Hybrid Warfare is being mentioned since the past year or so.

I had written an article “(Pakistan) At a crossroad’ which was published in The News way back in August 2008 when I first indicated what is now mentioned as 5th Generation Hybrid Warfare. An excerpt That is exactly what was happening to Pakistan at that time.There was violence all over Pakistan and it was being fought by the State under the banner ‘War on Terror’.That violence is what I had called ‘insurgency(ies)’.On the political front the period 2007-8 was one of turmoil

In Maldives the average height above sea level(asl) is 4ft and the highest point is 8ft.Karachi on the average is 26 ft asl.If,for a moment,Karachi is considered virgin land with nothing built on it one can imagine that some natural drainage must have existed which is now blocked Not only that but since water makes an alternate path those paths have also been blocked by all sorts of encroachment and legal/illegal buildings. So, therefore, cleaning up a few nullahs here and there is never going to be enough. What needs to be done is far more than that.

That,sooner or later,the power sharers of Pakistan will fall out of step with each other is a foregone conclusion.This has been Pakistan’s political history. Examples 1)ZAB went rogue after the Tashkent declaration. 2)MNS went rogue in 1993.When will it happen again is guess work There is a difference between the examples.Z A Bhutto became a PM because of going rogue when he was Foreign Minister while Mian Nawaz Sharif went rogue as a PM with his famous ‘dictation nahin loonga’ speech on TV in 1993. It cost him his Govt but earned him political longevity

The political system is not rotten as we are made to believe. The political system has been and is manipulated at will and with impunity.This is the reason why new and dynamic leadership has not risen with the years. Pakistan must become a Country governed through rule of law Nearly all of Pakistan’s life has been under direct martial laws or under controlled democracy like in the period 1947-58 and then again from 1988 to 99 and in the period 2002-08.All of this must change if Pakistan has to secure a respectable place in the world as a solid Nation

As a senior citizen of Pakistan who has served in the Army, in the topmost echelons of Pakistan’s bureaucracy and also in high political positions in active politics I can say,without a doubt, that,in the interest of Pakistan,the entire opposition must give up its docile politics As a senior citizen I stand amongst the #PakistaniSilentMajority and say that the people of Pakistan are free people who do not wish to see arrogant repressive laws that grant the operators of State power the legal latitude to play havoc with the lives of the common Pakistanis

If someone,whosoever that might be,acts falsely on behalf of an otherwise progressive and forward looking Pakistani Nation of 220 million people on an assumed concern about anything,and bans YouTube he will do a big disservice to the Pakistani Nation.We can’t divorce technology Let us assume that the internet service providers,international calling facility providers,YouTube, Twitter,FB etc tell Pakistan that we have had enough of you and are voluntarily shutting all services to Pakistan for the next five years.Imagine no internet,no phones no nothing

Those who rule Pakistan must realize that suppressing freedom of expression is NO LONGER AN OPTION AVAILABLE. Some TV hosts were gagged by stopping their shows.Some were rendered jobless.The owner of Pakistan’s Jang Group is in jail for 3/4 months now without a conviction I have seen enough of life being a war veteran and my youth being spent in the Army. Seen war and operations;their miseries and adverse fallouts.Been part of Pakistan’s highest echelons when I worked directly under the PM of Pakistan in the field of National Security decades ago

Everything said in the Supreme Court of Pakistan Judgement granting bail to @KhSaad_Rafique and his brother is very noteworthy. The Supreme Court of Pakistan Judgement has synchronized its voice with that of the #PakistaniSilentMajority who have always stood for rule of law The State of Pakistan prohibits the power of the State and it’s laws to be misused against its citizens and others who get engulfed in any kind of legal process in Pakistan.Nothing written anywhere in the Constitution,or any law book of Pakistan,empowers anyone to do injustices

#PakistaniSilentMajority is a hashtag I have been using for the last few days. The simplest connotation of that hashtag is that there is an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis, voters and would be voters,who have to-date been silent spectators in the shaping of Pakistan’s destiny In 2018,Pakistan had 106 million voters.That translates to 10 crores and 60 lac voters.A total of 51.1 % of them actually voted in 2018 for three major political parties ie PTI,PMLN and PPP plus a dozen or so smaller parties.The three major parties took approx 3.5crore votes ONLY

5 th of July 1977 is a watershed in Pakistan’s political history. A Country still reeling from an ignominious surrender and a breakup was again put under Martial Law.This video has PPP Leader Hafeez Pirzada and JI Leader Professor Ghafoor talking about it

For all the young ones of Pakistan who have heard things,in bits and pieces,various true and false aspects of Zia’s imposition of Martial Law on 5 July 1977 must watch this video diligently. The two people talking were adversaries then and are recounting things so convincingly

As a prudent citizen of Pakistan,a veteran of the 71 War and many operations,being someone who headed a national security organization and having active political service as VP PPPP I can say,categorically,that divided as we are we cannot pull Pakistan out of the stormy waters. Pakistan has suffered extreme divisions at various times on the basis of ethnicity,sectarianism and provincialism.What bothers me most now is the politics of contempt and extreme hatred that has crept into the Pakistani nation over the past few yrs and seems to be on the increase

We are all patriotic Pakistanis.But then there are those who tend to give more of blind loyalty to one, or another,political party. To be true patriotic Pakistanis to me means that, come what may,we should think of ONLY Pakistan-above parties and leaders #PakistaniSilentMajority #PakistaniSilentMajority accounts for the real Pakistan and it heavily outweighs all political parties put together,in numbers and power.This silent majority has so far let itself be ruled in whatever ways it has happened over the past 73 years. How long more?Its anyone’s guess

This pic was 2004-5.I cannot recollect the man on the extreme right of first row and the one on immediate right of Shaukat Aziz. Replace Shaukat Aziz with Imran Khan and the rest of them are all,supposedly,making Naya Pakistan as well as fighting the status quo together in 2020 These status quo super stars represent the many more status quo stalwarts who too are now in the PTI for fighting the ‘status quo’ and for bringing about a New Pakistan even after 15years of this picture ie in 2020.I am a team man and not a taker of the argument ’leader matters’

In the foreseeable future the South Asia-China Region can possibly see the following wars/conflicts:-

1) A China-India war/conflict
2) A Pakistan-India war/conflict
Note:- All three are nuclear military powers

The point of interest is that India figures in both possibilities Besides, irrespective of the nature of conflict/war that the South Asia-China Region might see, India will always be one of the warring entity. By now,India would have marched into Nepal had the China factor not been there.India has poor relations with all South Asian countries

I have always believed in the Pakistani Dream. I have waited all these decades for this Dream to come about. Sometimes it would appear as if it is just around the corner but then it would not materialize. At times one would see it like a mirage in the desert and then it would just fade away. One day, IN SHAA ALLAH, the Pakistani Dream will be realized but it does not look likely to happen in the near future. What is the Dream I call ‘The Pakistani Dream’?

Pakistan is set to demonstrate to the world that it is not a MUST for a modern State in this Century to have schools, colleges, universities,hospitals, an enviable communication infrastructure, railways,airlines,steel mills,good public transport etc. That we can do without it all BUT,if the Pakistani nation,as a whole and from every walk of life and profession,comes together Pakistan can resurrect itself into a solid,united,coherent,harmonic, cohesive,energetic,enterprising, vigorous, integrated and a rapidly developing nation and Country in a short time

What a beautiful county Pakistan we have.Indeed.But each one of us 220million Pakistanis must admit our criminal negligence in not doing justice to our beautiful Pakistan.Everyone off us,to the last man,is guilty of neglect,omissions and commissions that have caused great harm