US aid and USAID
Our adversaries are intensifying their efforts in the entire under-developed world. Those who oppose their advance look to us and I believe, at this dangerous moment, we must respond”. These…
Silence of the lambs
“It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” — Franz Kafka It was well over midnight when the interior minister standing at the…
Our Latin American slide
After a CIA- and MI6-orchestrated campaign of mass killing and ‘purges’ in Indonesia in the 1960s that left an estimated upward of one million Indonesians dead, the attention of the…
A malleable charter
WHILE it is appreciable that a solid monument is to be soon erected in Islamabad to symbolise the profundity of the Constitution, the record shows that the 1973 charter remains…
Making the Constitution work
WHAT could be more ironical than a country experiencing a constitutional breakdown while ‘celebrating’ the golden jubilee of its constitution? Speakers at a commemorative convention held at Parliament House vowed, one after…
Hard reset, anyone?
ARE the political events in Pakistan with its multiple crises leading to an intervention? This is the grim warning sounded by nearly every second commentator who has despaired of the…
Not cricket
OUR enemies must be chortling at the spectacle of us, a nuclear power, at war with itself. Survey the battlefield. Our president — the human symbol of our nation —…
Foreign interference
WHEN a political leader makes a doubtful claim about a foreign conspiracy to oust him one is hardly surprised. Most politicians have a tenuous relationship with the truth. But what…
The centre barely holds
We are in a very difficult phase right now. An unrepresentative government is busy shouting conspiracies at the top of its voice, adding to the already deep national divide. While…
Sahel region junta chiefs mark divorce from West African bloc
The military regimes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso marked their divorce from the rest of West Africa Saturday, with Niger’s ruling general saying the junta-led countries have “turned their…
