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Mohammad Zubair
Mohammad Zubair

The writer is the spokesperson for Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, and former governor Sindh.

  • October 04, 2022

    Maryam’s triumph

    Rarely has a woman endured the kind of hardship, intimidation and...

  • March 15, 2022

    Some grace, Mr PM

    Imran Khan and his party have decided to fight back – but fight back...

  • February 04, 2022

    A phenomenal rise

    Mian Nawaz Sharif has been in politics for more than 40 years and still...

  • January 11, 2022

    What happened in Murree?

    When you appoint the likes of Usman Buzdar and Mahmood Khan as chief...

  • December 29, 2021

    Beginning of the end?

    The ruling party has been decimated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local...

  • September 16, 2021

    Cantonment elections

    The most important message coming out of the cantonment board elections...

  • August 07, 2021

    The economic scorecard

    The present government has completed three years in power. This is good...

  • July 19, 2021

    NAB in the dock

    NAB is again making headlines – but for all the wrong reasons. In an...

  • June 20, 2021

    Electoral politics in Punjab

    While it may seem like there is still a long way to go, two years is not...

  • May 19, 2021

    Blunders and clarifications

    Foreign policy issues are expected to be handled in a far more sensitive...

  • May 10, 2021

    PTI and the by-elections

    Any ruling party anywhere in a democratic country would seriously be...

  • April 19, 2021

    The cabinet reshuffle

    ‘The change at the finance ministry’ – this was the title of my...

  • April 06, 2021

    The change at the finance ministry

    Finally, the admission – an acceptance that the economy is in a mess....

  • March 26, 2021

    Fifty years on

    It has been exactly 50 years since independence was declared by the Awami...

  • March 11, 2021

    The Senate defeat

    The PM has taken a vote of confidence from the National Assembly with 178...

  • March 03, 2021

    The accountability circus

    Hamza Shahbaz is finally out of jail and a free man after spending more...

  • February 23, 2021

    Where is the debt report?

    Whatever happened to the Debt Commission report? This is a legitimate...

  • February 03, 2021

    The corruption narrative

    In the last two and a half years Pakistan has degenerated on a scale that...

  • January 15, 2021

    Quetta: tragedy and empathy

    The brutal murder of the Shia Hazara miners was tragic enough but what followed in the aftermath was even worse.

  • December 09, 2020

    PML-N vs PTI: the economic scorecard

    If we start comparing the overall economic environment between the...

  • November 18, 2020

    The rise of Maryam Nawaz

    Whether one likes her or hates her, one cannot ignore the phenomenal rise of Maryam Nawaz on the political stage in Pakistan

  • September 03, 2020

    The debt trap

    Around June 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the setting up of a...

  • August 20, 2020

    The fiasco at NAB

    It was never meant to end the way it did. What Lahore witnessed on August...

  • August 05, 2020

    Kashmir: one year on

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi was clear in his plans to make Indian...

  • July 19, 2020

    The two-year scorecard

    The performance of the present government over the last two years has...

  • June 22, 2020

    No end in sight

    The government’s narrative remains the same: we can either protect...

  • June 13, 2020

    A series of blunders

    After seeing it almost two years in power, we still don’t know why the...

  • May 28, 2020

    NAB: a tragedy

    NAB is back in action – or so it seems. Having been discredited for the...

  • May 11, 2020

    Covid-19: where we stand

    In the end, we achieved nothing. In fact, we are much worse off than we...

  • April 29, 2020

    Covid-19 and the economy

    For the first 19 months of the current government's tenure, economic...

  • April 13, 2020

    The sugar scam

    The recent release of the FIA report on the sugar and wheat crises has...

  • March 30, 2020

    Leadership in the time of corona

    During his cricketing career, if there was one attribute that...

  • March 17, 2020

    Unrealistic commitments

    In an interview to a private television channel recently, Minister for...

  • March 02, 2020

    Failed accountability?

    Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is finally out on bail after more than seven months...

  • February 19, 2020

    The crisis deepens

    There has been a huge failure if we see what was promised before the...

  • February 05, 2020

    A tale of incompetence

    Just a few weeks back, it all looked great for the ruling party – or so...

  • January 21, 2020

    The art of diplomacy

    Among Muslim countries, Turkey and Malaysia have achieved the kind of...

  • January 09, 2020

    Economy: better or worse?

    Are people better off today compared to August 2018 when the PTI took...

  • December 25, 2019

    Reading the judgment

    The death penalty given against General Musharraf by the special court...

  • December 11, 2019

    Broken promises

    The agenda was to transform Pakistan into a modern welfare state –...

  • November 24, 2019

    The tomato controversy

    A few weeks back the finance adviser made the startling revelation that...

  • November 05, 2019

    The art of spin

    The job of spin masters is to give a feeling of ‘All is well’ –...

  • October 23, 2019

    Protest and politics

    Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s announcement about the long march or dharna has...

  • October 05, 2019

    NAB: what accountability?

    Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Miftah Ismail and Maryam Nawaz have all been sent...

  • September 18, 2019

    Where is the economy going?

    Mohammad Ali Tabba’s interview regarding business conditions has sent...

  • September 03, 2019

    Will things change?

    The economic situation continues to deteriorate even in the new fiscal...

  • August 21, 2019

    What next in Kashmir?

    Indian PM Narendra Modi has done what he promised in his election...

  • August 07, 2019

    The one-year scorecard

    July 25, 2018 ushered in a new era in our country’s history. Never in...