All roads lead to the IMF
There are many articles that are being written about what Pakistan needs to do to get out of its economic morass, this author, on the other hand, takes a different…
Trump’s reckless peace plan
Holding good on his campaign promises in the very first week of his presidency, Donald Trump has issued a clutch of executive orders involving controversial issues, including building of the…
The people must get political
The last few years have been defined by events of monumental proportions, events that caused quite a stir around the world. From the Middle East to Africa to Latin America…
Victory for none,loss for all
The latest chapter of the never ending war in Gaza is at a close. And while the world debates the precise reasons for which the war was launched, those who…
Viewpoint: Blair’s ‘essential battle’
Tony Blair delivered a keynote speech last week at Bloomberg London on "Middle East Matters", arguing for continuation of interventionist policy in the Middle East and beyond to thwart the…
Rollback of the Egyptian revolution
Egyptian military has successfully reversed the change the 2011 pro-democracy events brought in the country. The first ever democratically-elected president of the country, Mohammad Morsi, is in prison, while more…
View Point: The coup in Egypt
We in Pakistan are all too familiar with what has happened in Egypt: military ousting an elected government and putting its leader in prison. It looks a bit different though.…
From Cairo with a caveat
“Angry about the near total absence of public security, the desperate state of the economy and an increase in sectarian tensions...” Stop! Is this Pakistan? Every word in the sentence…
Learning little from our desert infatuation
Pakistan has still to recover from its last troop export to the holy kingdom. This was in the 1980s when Mard-e-Momin Gen Ziaul Haq was reconverting the Islamic Republic to…
The Luxor lesson
If you look at the map, upper Egypt is actually in the south. While this seems like a major geographical faux pas, the fact is that Egypt is governed by…
