What’s in store in 2023?
Pakistanis have been overwhelmed by the challenges our country faced in 2022. The collapse of economic growth, the corrosion of trust in the country’s institutions, the calamitous climate change induced…
Imran Khan’s big win
The Imran Khan faithful had anointed the byelections held on Sunday, October 16 as a referendum. In the end, like everything else this year, the debate really isn’t whether the…
Theatres of abuse
Pakistan is not new to contentious politics. However, the last decade has seen the rise of a politics of abuse and violence, with no one and no institution immune from…
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…
Lessons from a by-poll
In the by-poll held on June 16, the MQM-P retained the NA-240 Karachi constituency by a razor-thin margin of just 65 votes. The party managed to pull off a victory…
The TLP factor
As the dust starts to settle down after the NA-240 by-election, there emerge key takeaways for political observers to assess the ongoing trends in local Karachi politics that are metaphorically…
Discouraging peaceful progress
When the PTI government first came to power, it was hoped that it would be able to create the new Pakistan Imran Khan had spoken about so often. Of course,…
Wishing upon a Xi
Everywhere we look, there is disquiet with the 'system'. For the poor, illiterate, non-elite majority, whatever works in this 'system' isn’t enough. Some drown their sorrows in the intoxicating depths…
Seven years after NAP
Where Pakistan stands in terms of countering terrorism and extremism is a question that needs to be addressed more than anything now. The attack on the Army Public School in…
On a spectrum
A NEWS commentator in a televised interview recently called for a 15-year spell of authoritarianism in Pakistan, suggesting that advocates of democracy should be assassinated by firing squads, with their…
