Moribund authority
EVER since the Army Public School tragedy in Peshawar in December, we have seen hyperactivity at the level of the federal government and a spate of aggressive statements by the…
Can Imran change?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be justified in conferring India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, on Imran Khan. Last Sunday at the PTI rally in Islamabad Imran threatened to…
Viewpoint: Defective accountability
PML-N and the PPP are mad at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar-uz-Zaman for submitting before a Supreme Court bench a list of 150 mega corruption cases that includes,…
Shaken but not stirred
Like the prodigal son in the Gospel of Luke (15:11-32) Nawaz Sharif returned to parliament, frightened and nervous. This was because a few thousand agitators led by Imran Khan and…
Near yet so very far
The privileged Bahria Town on the outskirts of Lahore is the place from where Asif Ali Zardari has been conducting his politics for the last few days — betraying containment…
Crisis rumbles on
THE crisis is over. No, it isn’t. The crisis is winding down. No, it’s heating up. Imran and Qadri are going home empty-handed. No, they’re going home with Nawaz or…
The Qadri-Imran joint enterprise
Martin Luther, the German theologian whose writings inspired the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, also believed uncompromisingly that “God would prefer to suffer the government to exist no matter…
The beauty of democracy?
We have at least four accounts of whether - and how - a deal was struck between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf on the latter's…
One democracy and a ‘monarch’
Asif Ali Zardari is up to something after hibernating for so long and some hopefuls are willing him on towards a grand alliance of the opposition including a variety as…
Turning out to be a ship of fools
This would be a comedy if it wasn’t so grim at the same time. The great helmsmen are just not getting it and with every passing day things are slipping…
