Our coup-lovers
In background conversations, senior military officials say there is consensus in the army that the democratic dispensation should continue. Senior political representatives also say, joyfully of course, that recent tensions…
India: back to the 1930s
Under the sway of some right-wing Hindu organisations doggedly espousing Hindutva, the Modi administration has menacingly brought India to the verge of complete desecularisation, Hindu extremism and intolerance. Alarmingly, the…
Heritage rights
Childhood picnics in the Shalamar Gardens always turned into family history lessons. “Ali Mardan Khan, governor of Lahore requisitioned our ancestor’s land to build the gardens; the family was relocated…
Pakistan’s Donald Trump
Even his fellow Republicans have labelled him insane. But, defying the predictions of all soothsayers and political pundits, Donald Trump’s still surging popularity with Republican voters suggests that he could…
The AAP’s moment
It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big Bang’ event in Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad,…
Economic signals of a different kind
The Americans have always tried to help us or so they say. They have spent a sizeable time in this country right from the time of Ayub Khan. Some of…
The AAP’s moment
It has been described as the halting of the ‘saffron juggernaut’, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst recent political drubbing, a ‘Big Bang’ event in Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad,…
Plans ABC…made in Raiwind not London
Why give London a bad name? The sophistication we are witnessing could have been concocted only amongst the rolling acres of that spot in the sun, Raiwind. The brainwave hitting…
Who is behind the Captain’s march?
Imran Khan is a national obsession. The man keeps Pakistanis engaged with whatever new idea he chooses to focus upon. The nation’s good spirits have been with him since he…
Sleeping on containers leads to strange ideas
“Surely we are not as bad as Nigeria?”, asked an op-ed piece in an English language daily on Sunday, which reminded me of my sojourn in Nigeria, and how I…
