Chaudhry Nisar’s choices
The deliberations on a national security policy being held under the aegis of the interior ministry in Islamabad today will bear fruit only if the truth is faced squarely and…
Imagine, just imagine…
THIS beloved country of ours never ceases to surprise us with the possibilities it offers. The imagination at work is often good enough to beat the unlikeliest fable. The clinching…
He’s changed his mind!
Two days before ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif decided to fly back to Pakistan to appear before an accountability court, he had refused to answer a journalist's repeated question if…
‘Law enforcement’ via leaks
A Parliamentary committee tasked with drawing up the terms of reference for a judicial inquiry into the Panama Papers leaks is deadlocked with an increasingly frustrated opposition threatening to take…
Pakistani electoral mosaic
With general elections due somewhere after mid-2018, the expectations of the people and the stakes thereof have evolved dramatically with the political scenario changing almost on a daily basis. The…
The Hazara people’s unremitting suffering
Under attack, once again, the beleaguered Shia Hazara community of Quetta has desperately been trying to draw attention to its plight. Following three incidents in April - the latest one…
Long on rhetoric, short on action
After the latest terrorist attack on a chemists' protest demonstration at Lahore's busy Mall Road left 17 people dead and 84 others injured, some of them grievously, the President, Prime…
Punish the real culprit(s)!
Facing the storm unleashed by the leaking of the Cyril Almeida story, "Act Against Militants or Face International Isolation, Civilians Tell Military," the Nawaz Sharif government labelled it as being…
Stamping out militancy/extremism
Since the February 21 meeting of the National Security Committee announced its decision to accelerate actions against militancy and extremism, action has been in full swing against two externally-oriented militant…
Bridging the gulf
The just-concluded visit to Pakistan of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince His Excellency Mohammed bin Zayed, which came after well over a decade, has generated quite some optimism that the two…
