Within days of the death sentence being awarded to General Musharaf on 17 December 2019, a polarizing dispute erupted within Pakistan, over relative respect for the armed forces and the judiciary. However, the latest dispute will never be resolved, because Democracy nurtures institutional clashes to check power of different organs of the State, so as to hold state officials accountable before the people.

Pervez Musharraf will be remembered in Pakistan’s history as the treacherous Abu Raghal who guided the forces of Abraha towards Al-Ka’aba Ash-Shareef. After toppling the government of the failed American agent, Nawaz Sharif, in 1999, Musharraf declared Mustafa Kamal, who abolished our Khilafah, as his ideal.

The latest State Bank report exposes the regime’s tall claims regarding improved foreign exchange reserves and reduced trade deficit, because of foreign investment. The main reason behind the recent large inflow of dollars is foreign investment in treasury bills, which were offered for three months at one of the world’s highest interest rates currently, 13.6 percent.

Debate has erupted in Pakistan’s social media over a 7 December 2019 tweet of a video of the serving naval chief calling for Islamic global dominance. Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi declared that Pakistan can be the starting point for the return of global Islamic glory, adding that Muslims dominated the world through Islam, whilst Europeans established dominance through the rejection of religion. Indeed, the call for the dominance of the…