Civil-military power matrix
SECURITY briefings for a newly elected prime minister may not be unprecedented, but the excitement over Imran Khan’s intensive parleys at GHQ and the ISI headquarters certainly are. Our hyper-animated…
Incumbency is the real enemy
THE corruption drive just doesn’t stop picking up steam. After Shahbaz Sharif, it was the turn of Saad Rafique to be arrested, which hardly came as a surprise to anyone.…
Sinister attempt to ‘tame’ media
THE government seems bloody-minded in wanting to ‘regulate’ media through a ‘one-window’ operation; which will be achieved through a new law and regulatory body that will represent a clubbed-together version…
Reflect or perish
A woman is bashed to death with a brick for marrying a man of her choice near the premises of the Lahore High Court, a US-based cardiologist of Pakistani origin,…
Courting verdicts
THE court verdict is in and it seems to have gone overwhelmingly in PTI’s favour; most of the judges felt the party continues to exist as an entity and that it was…
Legacy of the caretakers
THE formation of the new governments at the centre and in the provinces has arguably been completed under strict cyber surveillance, coupled with the silencing of dissenting voices. The political…
Fault in ourselves
IT had been long in the planning and existed even longer in the predictions of analysts. The news finally came on Saturday. The judgement about Imran Khan’s disqualification and conviction had barely…
Fault in ourselves
IT had been long in the planning and existed even longer in the predictions of analysts. The news finally came on Saturday. The judgement about Imran Khan’s disqualification and conviction had barely…
The eastern question – Part II
Will peace with India ever be possible? Before the ascent of Narendra Modi, there were certainly a greater number of optimists in Pakistan who believed that not only was peace…
Judging restraints
THE hostility has never been this intense and the aggression never this naked, fear many as they view the state of Pakistani politics. But at the same time, it seems…
