Senate: then & now
THE 2021 buzz about the Senate evokes recall about the 1985 Senate with particular reference to alleged or actual costs for election. Around mid-February 1985, my far better half Shabnam…
Pandemic science
Recently Mr Abdullah Hussain Haroon, former ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations, came forward with a video recording in which he states that the Covid-19 pandemic is not a…
A case for Gandhara
Growing up in Lahore I wondered about the gap in my history textbook between the end of Indus Valley civilisation circa 1500 BC and the invasion of Sindh by Mohammad…
Why Pakistan should speak up on Syria
Pakistan will have to speak up on Syria whether we like it or not. We had better make up our mind on what we are going to say. There is…
Eyeless in Gaza
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…
The Avenfield case judgement
From life-time disqualification of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif-first time of any prime minister in Pakistan under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution-to sentence in a criminal case, there are many lessons for…
The travails of B M Kutty: Part – VI
In the fifth part of this series on B M Kutty published yesterday in these pages, we discussed the formation of the NAP provincial governments in Balochistan and the (then)…
Don’t stoke the fire
Karachi has seen a lot, pain and pleasure. After a long time, the city is enjoying relative peace. For the past two decades, we have not the witnessed mass-scale ethnic…
State Bank face unheralded HEC in Patron’s Trophy final
The State Bank of Pakistan will be ‘red-hot’ favourites to clinch the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II cricket title when they meet the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the four-day final at…
Will the caged bird sing?
And now we are about there, holding our breath and looking before and after. While the polling starts on Wednesday morning, there has to be a 48-hour pause in active…
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