The PTI’s Shahbaz Sharif
There is only one requirement for Imran Khan’s pick for the chief minister of Punjab: s/he has to be better than Shahbaz Sharif. Better administration, better optics, and better at…
Qureshi guide to invincibility
Legions of school and college students have used the ‘Qureshi Invincible Get-Through Guide’ for a short cut to examination success. Today followers of politics are attaching the same importance to…
Qureshi guide to invincibility
Legions of school and college students have used the ‘Qureshi Invincible Get-Through Guide’ for a short cut to examination success. Today followers of politics are attaching the same importance to…
Shaken and stirred by Imran Khan
Three things have happened in the last ten days that have put Pakistan even more firmly on a default trajectory than it was on before. First, China has injected a…
Khan’s contradictions
Former prime minister Imran Khan’s recent revelations that he no longer intends to criticize the US for its alleged role in his ouster from power may have surprised Western political…
Betraying political creators
Imran Khan was pampered, supported, sponsored, idealized, and brought into the shining political limelight from deep political obscurity. However, once in power, he played havoc with the country’s economy, politics,…
Challenging imperialism
Pakistan only witnessed genuine anti-imperialist movements in its early period, chiefly led by various socialist groups. In contrast, the Right, which remained a strong supporter of US imperialism in those…
The confidence no-confidence con
Imran Khan is exactly as advertised. He has been since the day he took office. Those optimists that assumed that he would ever be anything vastly more than what he…
The Raymond Davis affair
A mercenary contracted to American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Raymond Davis recently published his book 'The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis'. The…
The price of defeat
US Special Envoy for Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is once more treading the well worn path of a political settlement of the Afghan war that would allow a…
