Looking for poll clues
Pakistan needs to fast start throwing up signs to convince everyone around that a general election in the country is imminent. Right now, things are moving rather slowly, despite whatever…
Per ways the Romans
The Punjab law enforcers’ long-drawn expedition on Zahoor Elahi Road in Lahore appears to have finally yielded them the treasure they were direly searching for. Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the prize…
Never a dull moment
ROUND One to PDM; Round Two to PTI, with the bout going to neither but to the perennial winner of political contests in our land and that wasn’t surprising, as…
Playing with no rules
Consider, with your senses fully awake, the great irony of Imran Khan celebrating the enthronement of Parvaiz Elahi as the chief minister of Punjab. We witnessed this political spectacle on…
All are answerable
THE prime minister seems to be under the impression that a call for accountability is tantamount to blackmailing him, something that he deems unacceptable as evident from his statements of…
An inability to think
A day after the PTI-led coalition easily defeated the opposition in the National Assembly to win the approval of the ‘mini-budget’ that is dictated by the IMF, Prime Minister Imran…
Trouble all round
Trouble has raised its disquieting head, or is looming, on diverse fronts for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) government. First and foremost, Chief Minister (CM) Balochistan Jam Kamal Alyani has finally…
Murder as spectator sport
When bestiality enters the soul of a nation, it is difficult to imagine how it is to be driven out again. We have become a nation of beasts, and in…
Lessons from the Sialkot tragedy
THE attackers were all young. Many of those who watched the gruesome spectacle were teenagers. No one showed any sense of shock at the bestiality that was taking place. Several…
Anti-corruption mantra, anyone?
Amidst the hectic to and fro of nominations for the upcoming Senate elections, the video scandal showing some Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly receiving wads of…
