‘I will return’
Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a deep blue hospital gown, Imran Khan held forth from his hospital room on Friday evening as if he were on the container or…
Human rights in 2021
The year 2021 began with families of slain Hazara miners refusing to bury their loved ones unless PM Imran Khan visited them. Their peaceful protest was called an act of…
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…
The wages of appeasement
Once again, the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has wrested a ‘compromise’ agreement from the sitting government after a violent protest movement bolstered by its repeatedly demonstrated street power. This time, though,…
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…
Where dreams can’t grow
At about the same time when Saad Hussain Rizvi of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) was released from prison in Lahore on Thursday, I was attending a session of the national…
Beyond the ban
FOR more than four days, the PTI government remained mum in the face of pitched battles across Pakistan between activists of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and local police that erupted after…
TLP: the state’s continuing blunders
The violent clashes in the past few days between the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are the latest incarnation of the state’s flawed and blundering policy…
Hostage to extremism
IT is not for the first time that a religiously motivated group has disrupted civic life but what happened this week is extremely serious. The state seemed to have disappeared as the…
Jang and literature
In the first part of this series, we discussed how ‘Jang’, founded by Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman established itself as the foremost Urdu newspaper in the country. In this second and last…
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