Back to horse-trading
IMRAN Khan seems to be doing everything that he once claimed he was fighting against, including political horse-trading that he had earlier condemned as anathema to democracy. A new wave…
Horse-trading
Gaius Julius Caesar, the third emperor of the Roman Empire, nicknamed Caligula, had a favourite horse called Incitatus. Caligula loved Incitatus to the point that he promoted his horse and…
Trading horses
Recently, a politician from Punjab — after having switched political parties for the second time in 11 months — proclaimed that he’d now found ‘the right path, and the right…
Trading electables
Political activities will heat up in the wake of the announcement of the national elections by the electoral watchdog. One of the ubiquitous activities in the run-up to every national…
Hold your horses…
GIVEN Pakistan’s own version of the Ides of March in the form of the no-confidence motion tabled by the opposition, much ink has been spilled over the implications of potential…
Of horses and greener pastures
“At present, the horses are free to graze”. That’s how the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who had earlier removed Benazir Bhutto as prime minister, played down the allegations that…
If wishes were horses…
One may not see eye-to-eye with seasoned politician Imran Khan when he says that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was treated like a schoolboy in India. Yet one may easily agree…
A failed heist
The people of Pakistan are recovering from the trauma of a Sunday midnight political heist, where their 'chosen representatives' attempted to strip them of their political and constitutional rights. This…
Everybody’ll want the establishment back
If you’ve followed Pakistani politics for two-and-a-half decades, especially as a journalist, you’ll understand that the present impasse, particularly in Punjab, is less about legality or constitutionality of discretionary powers…
Whither Jinnah’s vision?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Quiad-e-Azam, not only won a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Subcontinent but also identified the issues that confronted the new state which needed to be…
