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سیاست کے سینے میں آئین کیوں نہیں دھڑکتا؟

سیاسی قضیے: منگل 6 مارچ، 2018 چند برس قبل، میں نے پاکستان میں بائیں بازو کی جماعتوں کی مختلف دستاویزات دوبارہ دیکھنی شروع کیں، جن میں ان کی طرف سے شائع ہونے والے تجزیات، رپورٹیں، سالانہ جائزے، وغیرہ، شامل تھے۔ یہ چیزیں میرے پاس پہلے سے دستیاب تھیں، کیونکہ میں خود بائیں بازو سے وابستہ […]

Today’s tweet – Pakistan’s economy

Pakistan’s economy is a rigged lottery. Tweets by khalilkf

Quaid’s 11 August (1947) Address Be made Substantive Part of the Constitution

Since long, a controversy has been raging as to what kind of state Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be: a religious state or a secular state. Fortunately, that controversy precludes certain extremes, for instance, it is generally understood and admitted that Quaid never wanted Pakistan to be a theocratic or a socialist state. […]

لوگوں کی جیب سے پیسے نکلوانا کوئی پنجاب حکومت سے سیکھے

آج (4 اکتوبر،2017ئ، کو) ”ڈان“ میں ایک چھوٹی سی خبر شائع ہوئی ہے۔ سرخی یہ ہے: غیرمصدقہ نمبر پلیٹوں پر یلغار (”کریک ڈاؤن“) شروع۔ تفصیل اس خبر کی یہ ہے کہ چیف ٹریفک آفیسر نے منگل کو وارڈنز کو غیر مصدقہ نمبر پلیٹوں کی حامل موٹر بائیکوں اور دوسری گاڑیوں پر یلغار میں شدت لانے […]

Article 184 – interpreting it paradoxically

As far as the interpretation of the article 184 is concerned, common-sense understanding is altogether different. It has three clauses that form the whole of this article. Its title is: The Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court. The first clause states: (1) The Supreme Court shall, to the exclusion of every other court, have original jurisdiction […]

Book stressing need for new social contract launched

Dawn October 28, 2017 ISLAMABAD: State emerges from society so it has no right to make the society hostage and start supporting non-state actors who are a threat to the society. As even political parties do not follow the Constitution, there is a need to have a new social contract to run the country. Read […]

عمرانی معاہدے کی تشکیلِ نو: تقریبِ رونمائی، 27 اکتوبر (2017)، اسلام آباد

عمرانی معاہدے کی تشکیلِ نو: انسانی معاشرے کی تنظیم کے اصول تقریبِ رونمائی، 27 اکتوبر (2017)، اسلام آباد

میری نئی کتاب: ’’عمرانی معاہدے کی تشکیلِ نو: انسانی معاشرے کی تنظیم کے اصول‘‘ شائع ہو گئی

بالآخر ’’عمرانی معاہدے کی تشکیلِ نو : انسانی معاشرے کی تنظیم کے اصول‘‘ شائع ہو گئی۔ تحقیق و تحریر میں چار برس سے زیادہ کا عرصہ لگا، اور قریباً چھ ماہ اشاعت کے مراحل طے کرنے میں۔ صفحات: 800 قیمت: جلد اول و جلد دوم 1500 روپئے ملنے کا پتا: میری گولڈ بُکس، لاہور WWW.Facebook.com/MarigoldBooks

Today’s tweet: Internet tax in Punjab

What the Pakistani politics is up to? Punjab gov imposed 19.5% tax on internet; no one is worried in the Punjab Assembly! https://twitter.com/khalilkf

Real culprit are the politicians: my interview in Urdu daily: Express

پاکستان کے اصل مجرم سیاست دان ہیں: روزنامہ ایکسپریس میں میرا انٹرویو 17 اگست، 2017 پورا انٹریو ملاحظہ کیجیے: https://www.express.pk/story/907963/

My nationalist pride

My two cents (tweets) It kills the somewhat nationalist pride in me that the office of prime minister has a pride that needs to be supplemented by another office! Every other laxity, corruption, etc I feel I may tolerate, not this one! It’s absolutely unbecoming no matter it’s constitutional or not. Tweets by khalilkf

Sense of direction

With JUI (F), MQM, and PML (Q) once again out to test their gamesmanship, and ANP, PML (N), the Army, and the political-religious parties outside waiting in the wings, it seems Pakistan is all set to brace for another bout of political crisis – leaving us the people bewildered what the hell is the direction […]

بایاں بازو ـ کچھ نہیں بدلا، کچھ بھی نہیں بدلا

کل گیارہ فروری کو ایک تقریب تھی، معراج محمد خان کی یاد میں ایک ریفرینس۔ مال روڈ پر، الحمرا ہال تین میں۔ ہال ’’ہاؤس فل‘‘ تھا۔ یہ ہیں کچھ اہم اور نمایاں نکات۔ صاف بات ہے کہ یہ میرے نقطۂ نظر سے اہم اور نمایاں ہیں۔ چونکہ بائیں بازو سے میرا بہت گہرا تعلق رہا […]

Is keeping assets abroad criminal?

This April a bill was submitted in the National Assembly which is yet another attempt to make the citizens of Pakistan “loyal” to it. The bill seeks to amend the Article 63 of the Constitution – an article that sets the criteria for the members of parliament and provincial assemblies. The bill requires that any person who […]

Wikileaking clandestine governments

While the Pakistani NGOs seek the Right to Information Law, the likes of “Wikileaks” are wikileaking clandestine governments! The latest ‘leaks’ of Wikileaks provide a historical opportunity to re-consider many a taken for granted truths! This writing too intends to discuss afresh some such propositions which relates to the affairs of the governments. For instance, […]

So, is London the last refuge for the Kleptocrats-Criminals?

The country that taught us lesson regarding Rule of Law, Rule of Politics is winning there! On September 16, 2016, Dawn published the following Situationer, which explains how law may not win over politics in UK: Politics, not law, likely to decide murder probeBy Owen Bennett-Jones Here is the text of the piece: LONDON: Shortly […]

Bridging The Communication Gap With PPP!

With time, disconnect with the Pakistan Peoples Party is widening. The more one listens to news and reads newspapers, the more one is convinced of the distending communication gap between the PPP and non-PPP camps. It seems both of them are talking to themselves only. Watching talk shows on TV channels, where representatives from both […]

The American contradiction

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none -Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826. American people create abundant wealth. So, they are prosperous and happy. It is only because they are economically freer than many nations on earth. In consequence, that makes them politically freer. What makes all that possible is their declaration of […]

The perils of judicial populism

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to the pressures of the times.– Warren E. Burger (1907-1995), Chief Justice, US Supreme Court. The best thing that explains the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) July 20 judgment is: it is never too late to mend. As is being claimed, […]

The perils of judicial populism

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to the pressures of the times. – Warren E. Burger (1907-1995), Chief Justice, US Supreme Court. The best thing that explains the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) July 20 judgment is: it is never too late to mend. As is being […]