‘Bugging’ Wali Bagh for ANP prospects: Election Outlook-VII
"Is he a Pakhtun?,"* an ailing 89-year-old Khan Abdul Wali Khan asked his son Sangeen Wali in Pashto as he began to inquire about the identity of this writer. Lying…
The jiyalas and the red shirts
A grenade attack on the home of a PPP candidate in Peshawar is followed by a deadly suicide attack on an Awami National Party rally in the city. Events of…
Obituary essay: A pragmatic politician
The words "former Amir of Jamaat" or a person having filled the leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami previously as an introduction of Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who was buried yesterday in his native…
An evolving enemy
Three Chechens, one Uzbek, one Kyrgyzstani and one Dagestani. These are the nationalities of six of the 10 terrorists that attacked the Bacha Khan Airport in Peshawar on Saturday (the…
Renaming NWFP
There is a likelihood of the curtain finally dropping on the issue of a new nomenclature for NWFP, a dispute that has continued to hang fire for the last many…
Potential targets
What next after the audacious attack by militants on the joint civil-military airport in Peshawar that houses the Bacha Khan International Airport and the Pakistan Air Force and Army aviation…
The Chinese prototype
Pakistan’s Minister for Railways, Haji Ghulam Bilour is one of the true followers of veteran Pashtun politician Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan. Bilour is known to…
Yearning for the Miracle Man
PEOPLE across the world hunger for political leaders who can do miracles but Pakistanis are hungrier than most. Although the country’s founders gave it the two-nation theory, they provided no…
From the virtual to the real
‘Ghareeb kay bachay’ versus ‘ameeron kay bachay’. The intriguing refrain does the rounds as Pakistanis cannot help but group people in Imran Khan’s discredited protest caravan and then compare one…
Sindh: solidarity and struggle Khurram Ali
Suddenly a new wave of ethnic and sectarian contradictions has raised its head in Sindh, particularly in its economic centre Karachi. Being a cosmopolitan city, there are a number of…
