Leaders on display
Pakistan’s political progress can be likened to a rocking chair: moves much but doesn’t go anywhere. Most explanations of this state of perpetual stagnation centre on leadership. The popular, and…
One-party rule or civilian martial law?
The slugfest between the PTI government and the opposition, particularly the two largest opposition parties, the PML-N and PPP, is intensifying. The Sharif brothers are cooling their heels in jail…
Leadership
By now much has been written and said about the terrorist attack on March 15 in Christchurch, New Zealand that claimed the lives of 51 innocent Muslims as they worshipped…
Decapitating the leadership
NAWAZ Sharif is handed another jail sentence and Asif Ali Zardari’s fate hangs in the balance after a damning indictment in a money-laundering investigation. Though foretold, the two events this week bring…
Time for a new leadership?
Regardless of the merits of the cases against the leaders of the opposition or whether there is ‘selective accountability’ going on in the country, almost the entire leadership of the…
Redefining leadership
While ‘Naya’ Pakistan has not really come to fruition, its claimants have started compiling a new dictionary – with new definitions and interpretations of justice, accountability, personal attacks, rigging, begging…
Leadership and the transition process
Leadership transitions are difficult all over the world. In the US, a generation of Democrats is trying to grapple with the challenge of establishing a post-Clinton Democratic Party – despite…
Semi-civilian rule
In the middle of the self-imposed tension of holding the PSL final in Lahore, and the attendant consequences of deployment of resources to manage the risks that we ourselves had…
Shades of ‘visionary’ leadership
Last week, during a joint hearing of US Congress's Sub-committees on Terrorism, Nuclear non-proliferation, Trade, and Asia and the Pacific, the subject was "Pakistan: Friend or foe?"Where in many Congressmen…
Sindh’s leadership transition
The PPP high command’s decision to replace Qaim Ali Shah was a sudden but not entirely unexpected move. Rumours of his replacement had been circulating for quite some time, and…
