Capital suggestion: Fake revolutions
A ‘fake revolution’ typically refers to a situation or event that gives the appearance or illusion of a significant uprising or transformative movement, but lacks genuine or meaningful change. It…
PTI-PAT revolutions
Good Lord. There are so many revolutions happening in this country and all in the month of December. Talk about pressure. I mean give us a break people. Weren’t we…
Beyond rage and emotion
Pakistan’s political discourse is characterized by emotions, more particularly the emotion of anger and rage. At any given time, Pakistanis are angry over real or perceived injustices at home and…
Interrogating democracy
DEMOCRACY has been knocked down from the lofty pedestal on which it was ensconced not so long ago as the endpoint of humankind’s search for the ideal form of governance.…
The conspiracy
According to the prevailing claim, Russian president Vladimir Putin stole the election on behalf of Trump. Trump is not truly a US president, it seems. He’s Russia’s placeman in the…
A witch hunt
It is a known fact that Imran Khan has been trying to get into the corridors of power by riding on the crutches of the praetorian powers, as was the…
The rigging mantra
As expected, the PML-N has managed to retain the NA-122 seat and Ayaz Sadiq has returned to the National Assembly. It was undoubtedly a close contest like it was in…
The missing Mother and the missing Baloch
Given Pakistan’s current political situation, for those who thought that a film based in Balochistan would be the Pakistani version of Haider, watching Moor, would have come as a huge…
Poverty has little to do with radical Islam
Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Islamic State in Syria and the Taliban in Pakistan have not taken up arms to create a classless society. Their aim is not social justice.…
A case for change
The land of the Indus is not particularly fertile for revolutions. An individual has to operate as the member of a family, a clan and different social networks. Political ambition…
