Response to IDPs
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claims of extending all possible help to the IDPs migrating from North Waziristan due to the ongoing Zarb-i-Azb operation are being challenged by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Isaaf…
Are they not Pakistanis?
It was unthinkable to believe that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his political government would go for a military operation in North Waziristan without having first exhausted all possible options…
Gone to the dogs
I would have liked to write something academic, but the recent riots in Lahore have made me change my mind. I would now like to draw attention to the critical…
Social contract
There are many theories about the origin of the state and its role in the life of its citizens. One view is that the state is inherently an oppressive institution,…
Discouraging talkers, finding doers
Let us admit, for the sake of argument, that all that is said of Malik Riaz, of whom we all know, is true. But whatever his sins he is a…
The enemy within
Handery Masih, the Balochistan provincial assembly member who was shot dead last Saturday, and his assassin,Ghulam Mohiuddin, of the Balochistan Levies,roughly represent the forces that are locked in a deadly…
Mounting public anger
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has jumped into the murky waters of politics and publicly referred to the motive behind Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) jalsas as 'incomprehensible'. His stated bafflement has been…
Free market America? Yes, but with limits
The United States portrays itself as a bastion of the unfettered free market, but when foreign firms launch take-over bids for American businesses things are not always so laissez faire.…
The Survey says it all
Ishaq Dar, the Finance Minister, showed his penchant for numbers rather than as a policy reformist when he presented the Economic Survey 2013-14, the statistical compilation of the year accompanied…
Good time for savages
The last week was a good one for extremist loonies of all sorts. Pakistan experienced yet another dose of vicious hatred by a bunch of murderous fanatics. In Israel a…
