Caretaker by any other name
NOW that the people have voted and been outwitted, a new parliament is in place, and a new president and prime minister have reached Constitution Avenue. All of last week,…
NOW that the people have voted and been outwitted, a new parliament is in place, and a new president and prime minister have reached Constitution Avenue. All of last week,…
THERE comes a time in the life of nations when citizens start to feel that the social contract between them and the state is on the verge of collapse. What…
Pakistan has lost one of its most outstanding sons and indefatigable soldiers; the nation just a few days back said goodbye to one of the last surviving soldiers of the…
Though it fell to caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti’s lot to deliver it, the message clearly had the stamp of a higher level. And it seemed to have been designed…
The public sentiment has mostly been taken for granted by the governments and the parliamentarians as a class with no voice and the one which would sustain hardships inflicted by…
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things,” said Machiavelli, who is…
Amid a wave of protests in the US, Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th US president. For many citizens and media and political analysts who monitored his election…
They met, shook hands and inquired about one another’s health in their shared mother tongue. But they could not tell the people of their needlessly estranged countries what they have…
The prime minister’s visit to the foreign office, despite the media hype, was a non-event. Front-page newspaper photographs and television footage showed him sitting grim-faced at the head of a…
Fast-track efforts are on for the resolution of the conflict that has ravaged Afghanistan for the last so many years. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, the US Secretary of State, John…