The Spy Chronicles
It is the season of name-calling, especially the choice epithet: 'traitor'. Recently former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was roundly condemned as a 'traitor' because he had the temerity to ask…
State of conflict
Former ISI chief Lt General (r) Asad Durrani in an interview with ‘Russia Today’, published on October 29, while commenting on the situation in Afghanistan and the new US policy…
Afghanistan: perceptions
No country can exist in isolation in the age of globalisation. It has to prioritise its own interests and engage accordingly with other countries. Due to its strategic location, weak…
Scandal
Well, this is fun. And like most things fun, the well-meaning sort will tell us not to enjoy it, to be worried about the consequences, to think of systems. But…
Leave him be
Pakistan’s recent baby steps out of the wilderness of mullah-dominated lunacy have rightly received much acclamation. But one aspect of this development has been the concern of some liberals (and…
Game of thrones?
We will continue to suffer APS Peshawar, Shikarpur, Peshawar Imamia Masjid and Baldia colony like tragedies, for insidiousness, capable of justifying violence, has seeped deep into our body politic. Savagery…
Tail wagging the dog
In the wake of the North Waziristan operation, the army chief’s ‘successful’ US visit and the military’s insistence that ‘all forms’ of terrorism will be taken on, reputed analysts have…
Isolation ward
More and more, Imran Khan’s erratic political trajectory is guiding him towards a major collision with reality, while his party resembles a coach dragged along by a runaway horse. Just…
Pakistani democracy and idealism
Pakistan is a security state – something that has led to many an ill in the country. It would have been acceptable if in the last 60-plus-years we had transformed…
The corrupt, tax cheats, ‘secrecy’ & RTI — I
2020 has started and apparently everyone has forgotten what the Supreme Court desired in Suo Muto Case No. 2 of 2018, started on February 1, 2018, and what happened thereafter.…
