Tariq Khan HI(M)

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The writer is a retired Lt General of the Pakistan Army. He is noted for his services as the Commander of I Strike Corps at Mangla and Inspector General of the Frontier Corps.

Punjab & the Mockery of Democracy

‘Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with Chaos’. Will Durant.How do you manufacture a suicide bomber? A question I have often...

He came, He saw, He Conquered

I’m not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have a learned that the hardest thing about any...

The Charade of Democracy

Despite Imran Khan’s soaring popularity, the system appears all set to favour the PMLN in the Punjab by-elections on July 17

The Ungovernable Nation

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those...

Road to nowhere

 ‘One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results’ Milton Friedman  The world has been...

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