Shahbaz Sharif

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jU1XSZb-0] Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has launched an unusual attack on the country's judiciary as the Supreme Court of Pakistan is expected to give...

Pakistan's former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf passed away in Dubai on Sunday (February 5). Musharraf had been living in the Emirates since...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXDnpDNxk-w] Nawaz Sharif and Mariam Nawaz will be in Geneva during Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif's visit to the Swiss city. Is it a coincidence...

Pakistan entered 2023 as a weaker country than before. Thanks to a mafia-like political elite that has ganged up in cahoots with a few...

The Supreme Court decision and election of Pervez Ellahi as Punjab chief minister will have profound implications for the Sharif government which may be forced to call early elections. Early elections will dampen the hopes of army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of getting an extension in service, paving the way for the appointment of a new army chief on merit.

Some analysts in Pakistan do not rule out the impositionn of martial law if the ongoinng political crisis continue to take a heavy toll on the economy.

Now that the election stunner is in, the most frequently asked question remains the consequences of the changed parliamentary calculus in Punjab. The first casualty of this change will be the government of Mian Hamza Sharif, whose government in Punjab has lost its majority.

The Bajwa-Shahbaz picture was pathetic and hurt the hearts and minds of millions of Pakistanis. So was his move to invite him to North Waziristan and make every officer salute him. What has Shahbaz got to do with these operations and terrorists anyway but why give him that opportunity?

Like his brother Nawaz Sharif, who has been convicted of corruption and is banned from public office, Shahbaz has faced allegations of cronyism and corruption. But this is not unusual in Pakistani politics, where opposition leaders tend to face such charges.

Shahbaz Sharif’s “electoral magic” at the 2013 ballot box engineered their seat count upwards by 30-35 NA seats. That contrived “majority” proportionately guaranteed more...