Why did Qadri’s juggernaut fail?
It was an anti-climax of the juggernaut that Tahirul Qadri has been so dramatically using against successive elected governments. You cannot use the same old trick all the time, even…
D-Chowk, Qadris and dharnas
I want someone to help me understand how two thousand unarmed protestors, sitting, eating, defecating, and swearing in front of parliament for four days made the capital and a nation…
The end of Qadri
Mumtaz Qadri was executed on Monday, Feb 29, 2016. The hanging took place at 4:30am at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, where Qadri had been imprisoned over the past several years. So…
In defence of Qadri verdict
While upholding the death penalty awarded to Mumtaz Qadri, the Islamabad High Court reaffirmed that “it is established beyond any reasonable doubt that the murder of the deceased [governor Salmaan…
The Qadri courtroom
Everyone is entitled to his prejudices. If Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, former chief justice of the Lahore High Court, is convinced that he is charting a course to heaven by defending…
Chief justice’s challenges
“Great judges succeed most when they are praised not so much for the legal soundness of their work, but for the sit-up-and-take-notice boldness of their interventions”. — Allan Hutchinson, author “ASIF,…
‘Frosty’ exchanges
Perhaps it is appropriate that these lines are being written on April Fool’s Day. What lends this credence is the exchange of letters between US President Joe Biden and Pakistan’s…
‘Frosty’ exchanges
Perhaps it is appropriate that these lines are being written on April Fool’s Day. What lends this credence is the exchange of letters between US President Joe Biden and Pakistan’s…
Slippery slope of descent into barbarism
The Sialkot incident in which a Sri Lankan factory manager, Priyantha Kumara, was brutally bludgeoned to death by an enraged mob of the factory’s workers for alleged blasphemy and his…
From Sialkot to where?
THE silent majority of Pakistan is silently sad. It is also scared. Even the chronic optimists are failing privately. What happened in Sialkot is a symptom of an underlying cancer which has…
