When absurdities rule
Travelling back from usual monthly visit to my village in Rajanpur district, I was intending to write on the mistreatment of southern Punjab at the hands of the local feudals…
Budget debate
The Finance Bill was adopted by the National Assembly on Friday. The PML (N) walked out as none of their recommendations were taken on board. MQM and the ANP, coalition…
Remembering Benazir
December 27, 2012 marks the fifth death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of neo-colonial forces - pushing Pakistan to…
A big threat
Importing foreigners by the dozens to rule Pakistan is one of the biggest threats to Pakistan’s stability that emerged in the past decade. The ruling coalition parties, PPP, MQM, and…
Talking with the enemy
In more than a decade-long conflict between the Pakistani state and the Al-Qaeda and its inspired local militants, the initiative undoubtedly has fallen into the hands of the extremists. They…
No fear of accountability
The Victorian chimney sweep in Britain, the first industrial nation, was once an even bigger symbol of inhumanity than the bonded child labourer and sex-trafficked women of Pakistan and India…
Political settlement in Sindh
At the time of writing, roughly a day and a half after the promulgation of the Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO), members of PML-F, ANP, and NPP tendered their…
While the state looks the other way…
In Sultanpura in Lahore, a local cleric has taken the state hostage. He is insisting – and the local police are doing his bidding – that an old Ahmedi place…
Chameleons
The suicide blast in Peshawar on April 19 that claimed 23 lives was a little different, in the sense that instead of targeting the ANP, as usual, the suicide bomber…
