Cooperative frameworks
The killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah, Pakistan’s most wanted terrorist, in a US drone strike in Afghanistan is a major blow to the terrorist group. Since his…
Reality check
It is all very well to talk about the civil-military divide in Pakistan. Yes, the divide is there. Yes, it has always been there. Yes, the army exercises control over…
Where did the money go?
Last week, a parliamentary resolution moved by the PML-N informed us that the Malakand Levies are still using antiquated Enfield Mark 4 rifles (referred to as Markhor in the vernacular)…
The year of dialogue
THERE’S stuff they’ll tell you and there’s stuff they won’t. Usually, it’s what they won’t tell you that’s more interesting. Publicly, the army is all ‘we can fix this, let…
Target: Karachi
Abdul Razzaq Buneri, an Awami National Party (ANP) leader and Pakhtun trader, refused to pay Rs20 million to the Pakistani Taliban after he received numerous threatening telephone calls which were…
Drones and dirty politics
A close friend, who has a flair for the dramatic, told me earlier in the week that he had been having sleepless nights since July 2011. Like Shakespeare’s Polonius, he…
The day of the jackals
The politicians of Pakistan are not in the habit of saying anything in a measured and reflective manner. They do not believe in masterly understatements. Their preference is to howl…
The lies our leaders tell
Novelists and playwrights have vividly described the remorse that assails those who have done evil, they have portrayed the torment of a stricken conscience and the long nights of sleeplessness…
Mourning a villain
The death of a man who waged war against the Pakistani state and was responsible for the slaughtering of thousands of innocent men, women and children should have come as…
Soft on the enemy
Whither the much-talked-about talks with the Pakistani Taliban? There is no sign yet of them taking off. But even if the talks happen it would be more like talks between…
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