The sheikhs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Politics has no shame. Why should the PTI be an exception only because it claims to be as pious as a Sheikh Sahab in Ghalib’s verse? There is no point…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the PTI
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa surprised many when he declared that “Pathans are the PTI, and the PTI is Pathan.” One could expect the leadership of the ANP and…
Khyber mail
The single biggest issue uniting the opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an intense dislike of Imran Khan. This perhaps suits the binary politics of Punjab. But in a province like…
Khyber mail
Part - II In the early years of the PTI’s tenure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and following another public gaffe by Shaukat Yousafzai and Shah Farman, I asked a PTI insider…
For peace in Pakhtunkhwa
As luck would have it, Pakistan sits astride two sets of fault lines - the geo-tectonic fault lines and the geo-political fault lines. The epicentre is where these cross, and…
Failing our minorities
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Zarviya left her home in Rawalpindi with a couple known to her family, who said they would take her to buy a Mother’s Day gift for her mother. She…
Kept in the dark
IF one goes by the poll dates fixed by the president of Pakistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor for election to the provincial assemblies of Punjab and KP, about 74…
Pushback
IN his farewell to the Lahore High Court bar in 1960, Justice Munir found himself acting as his own defence lawyer. In the dock was his legacy, and what an…
Petty, pointless moves
EACH political party that wins an election in democracies is entitled to usher in its manifesto pledges and bring in technocrats who can supervise delivery of its programme in key…
The human cost
THE way a country treats its prisoners says a lot about its values. Nelson Mandela, who was incarcerated for 27 years for opposing apartheid, once said: “A nation should not…
