The Chaudhry Nisar factor
The interior minister appeared in a combative mood while responding to the damning indictment of him and his ministry by the inquiry commission report at the presser last week on…
Chaudhry Nisar’s politics
The only politician today who can generate prompt angry rebuttals interspersed with attacks on his sanity is Chaudhry Nisar, the Minister for Interior. He holds a critical portfolio as terrorists…
Chaudhry Nisar’s mea culpa
In an enigmatic shift in our ongoing war against terror, the focus this week was on the security of our educational institutions. Sudden announcements about the closure of a number…
Chaudhry Nisar’s choices
The deliberations on a national security policy being held under the aegis of the interior ministry in Islamabad today will bear fruit only if the truth is faced squarely and…
Judging CJP Nisar
In our culture it is impolite to judge those who pass away. We only seek forgiveness for them. It is also petty to not hold any punches when someone is…
Nisar’s last bet
In principle, ego is the antithesis of popular politics. However, there are always exceptions to the rule – one of them being Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, with a career spanning…
What Nisar’s presser and black goats tell us
What do Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s seminal report on the Quetta carnage, the interior minister’s ‘combative’ presser, the Chitral crash, the burning to death of guests at the Regent Plaza…
Nisar should heed wise counsel
Although as the point man of a government currently braving a terror campaign, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan should provide regular updates to raise the public morale, he doesn’t…
Imagine, just imagine…
THIS beloved country of ours never ceases to surprise us with the possibilities it offers. The imagination at work is often good enough to beat the unlikeliest fable. The clinching…
He’s changed his mind!
Two days before ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif decided to fly back to Pakistan to appear before an accountability court, he had refused to answer a journalist's repeated question if…
