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Past articles by Ashraf:

Role various leaders should be assigned for Kashmir cause

LAHORE - While unbearable price-hike, rampant corruption and large scale unemployment are the major challenges for the PTI → Read More

Can Sharifs meet SC conditions for video’s authenticity?

LAHORE - It was on July 6 when Maryam Nawaz addressed a news conference at her party’s Model Town office. In the presence of many senior party leaders → Read More

Modi lost Kashmir battle even before it started!

Lahore - A panel of Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation had a sitting with Interior Minister Brig (r) Ijaz Ahmed Shah and elicited his views on a number of national and → Read More

Extension to Gen Bajwa lauded as call of the hour

LAHORE - Former top military leaders and those with military backgrounds have hailed the three-year extension given to COAS Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa as a step in the → Read More

Shehbaz warns NAB chief not to play in PM’s hands

LAHORE - PML-N President Mian Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday bitterly criticised what he called political victimisation being carried out in the name of accountability, → Read More

Impression of differences in Sharif family may be a strategic move

LAHORE - The rejection by Vice President Maryam Nawaz of the Charter of Economy offer made by PML-N President Mian Shehbaz Sharif (and before him PPP → Read More

Maryam urges opposition to give govt tough time

LAHORE - PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz says facing countless problems because of the wrong policies of the PTI-led coalition, → Read More

Wise strategy needed to deal with emerging situation

LAHORE - At a time when the country needs absolute stability, developments taking place on the political scene may cause high magnitude jolts, consequences of → Read More

Indian attitude should awaken world conscience

LAHORE - The world is aware of the efforts made by Pakistan on various occasions for the settlement of all outstanding issues with India through talks. → Read More

Who will implement Makkah OIC summit decisions?

LAHORE - The decisions taken and speeches made by the top leaders at the OIC summit at Makkah are really commendable. They are the voice of the → Read More

Need to handle economic crisis like a national emergency

LAHORE - Rupee has already become the weakest currency of the region and is still depreciating every day, stocks are nose-diving and exports not picking up despite all → Read More

Nisar free to take oath as MPA: Raja Basharat

LAHORE - Is Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, MPA-elect from PA-10 in the July last year’s general election, constitutionally allowed to take oath as a → Read More

Continued prison or palace? All eyes on Sharif’s fate

LAHORE - The PML-N leaders are pinning their hopes on the Supreme Court’s decision, expected next week, on former prime minister Nawaz → Read More

Nawaz looked ‘very ill’

LAHORE - PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari set a very healthy precedent on Monday by visiting his party’s staunch opponent Mian → Read More

Nawaz looked very ill, Bilawal says after meeting him

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari set a very healthy precedent on Monday by visiting his party’s staunch opponent Mian Nawaz Sharif in → Read More

Pakistan emerges stronger: Ex-general

LAHORE - Prime Minister Imran Khan’s offer to India for talks after the PAF shot down two Indian planes on Wednesday morning makes Pakistan’s position → Read More

Like father like daughter

LAHORE - Elsewhere in the world the appointment of a woman as an ambassador, or even her election as president or prime minister, may be a routine development, but the → Read More

Opposition parties closing ranks against govt

LAHORE - The political weather in Pakistan this year is expected to be as hot as summer because of the situation on the domestic front and international → Read More

Even Farooq Abdullah wants India to talk to Kashmiris

LAHORE - Tension between Pakistan and India has been going up since the Pulwama attack, as India, instead of addressing the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, → Read More

A visit full of love… and business deals

Lahore - The visit of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman has further solidified the relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Their bilateral ties, already strongest → Read More