Bureaucratic belligerence
Arrested on February 22 by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for corruption in the Ashiana Housing scandal under Section 2 of the Schedule of NAO, 1999, Ahad Cheema, formerly Lahore…
Some claim descent from demigods
Apropos my article titled "Time to reflect" regarding awards made by International Centre for Settlement of Disputes (ICSID) in respect of M/s Karkay and M/s Reko Diq against the state…
Someone must be trusted…
Lord Denning M. L., a Twentieth Century British judge and jurist, in his famous book "The Family Story" remarked: "Every judge on his appointment discards all politics and all prejudice.…
The governance debate misses the point
The cleavage among our digital warriors, who spend hours debating the dysfunctionalities of government, is hard to disguise. Right versus left, and the alluring part in between, is passé. What…
Dawn leak controversy: Almost, but not quite, settled
The two main opposition parties, the PPP and PTI, have 'rejected' the government military settlement over the Dawn leak controversy, arguing if the leak constituted a breach of national security,…
House on the hill
I DO hope that Maulana Fazlur Rahman and his supporters didn’t bet too heavily on capturing the presidency. I certainly checked my gambling instincts. A couple of weeks ago, I…
Joint strategy?
Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz at Jati Umra on June 16, 2019 on the latter's invitation. The two…
Poetry in the dark
THE UK last week celebrated national poetry day — an annual celebration of poetry with the aim of attracting new audiences to the genre. Newspapers were filled with famous verse…
Between power and prestige
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has attracted attention of late – for mixed reasons. It started with his speech in Quetta on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on…
All hail the omnipotent
While in the last two weeks the PTI government has fallen prey to its own rhetoric and produced some humour, it is firmly in the saddle for two reasons. One,…
