Tariq Aqil

Election promises and reality
- By Tariq Aqil
- February 5, 2024
THIS week is the final run up to the general elections to elect the new federal and provincial governments in the country. As the country…

Next elected government: Foreign policy imperatives
- By Tariq Aqil
- January 29, 2024
General elections are just around the corner and it now appears that the next elected government will again be a coalition government of a few…

Election symbol and SC judgment
- By Tariq Aqil
- January 22, 2024
PAKISTAN’S Supreme Court on 13th January set aside a Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision suspending the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) earlier order against Pakistan…

Israel-Palestine conflict and divisions in Muslim world
- By Tariq Aqil
- January 15, 2024
AFTER the Hamas attack of 7th October the Fanatical Israeli regime struck back with everything they have in their arsenal. The onslaught of the Israeli…

Democracy and Pakistan
- By Tariq Aqil
- January 8, 2024
Defining Democracy in a clichéd form “Government of the people, by the people and for the people. Balloting and the right of vote are the…

What we gained and lost in 2023?
- By Tariq Aqil
- January 1, 2024
THE sun has finally set on the year 2023 and we are about to welcome the New Year. The echoes of a very memorable and…

Historical blunders and consequences
- By Tariq Aqil
- December 25, 2023
POLITICAL leaders, military commanders and members of the superior judiciary have to take certain decisions in good faith for the greater good of the nation,…

General elections 2024 and consequences
- By Tariq Aqil
- December 11, 2023
The cat is out of the bag. The date for the next General Elections has been announced and the nation awaits with abated breath…

Is Hamas legitimate representative of Palestine ?
- By Tariq Aqil
- December 4, 2023
IT has been almost two months during which the Israeli armed forces have bombarded and then invaded the Ghaza Strip with their declared aim of…

Prospects of fair and free elections
- By Tariq Aqil
- November 27, 2023
WITH the general elections just around the corner all the major political parties in the country are shouting from the roof tops about the necessity…





