Swinging Quetta – 1950s/60s
In 2007, my niece suggested that a family entourage drive up to Quetta/Ziarat over a long weekend. I tried to dissuade her, suggesting instead Dubai. But she prevailed (one can't…
In 2007, my niece suggested that a family entourage drive up to Quetta/Ziarat over a long weekend. I tried to dissuade her, suggesting instead Dubai. But she prevailed (one can't…
"Whenever you need energy, just give us a call," US President Donald Trump said on a visit to Poland in the summer. Now, with winter setting in, Warsaw is taking…
IT’S been a while since the traders of North Waziristan organised a protest in Islamabad demanding compensation for their losses in Operation Zarb-i-Azb. They were promised early action by the…
Pakistan has produced few political figures of an iconoclastic status who have been able to articulate a political discourse of transformation in the popular idiom. A popular movement spread across…
I visited Karachi recently after a very long time. Once called the city of lights, Karachi had fallen over the years into the darkness of lawlessness, staged ethnic rivalries and…
The state of shock and mourning of those earlier vying for a dogfight between an elected government and the military and now inciting hatred against the khaki high command for…
Anyone who is witness to the Swat Taliban’s rise must have been stunned to watch Sufi Muhammad walk free out of prison and straight onto TV screens, speaking like a…
Part - I I first met Gen Ziaul Haq, COAS, in July 1976. Due to no progress having been made during the first six months of my stay in Pakistan,…
Brexit is English nationalism made flesh, but the English underrate its destructive potential as a form of communal identity. Concepts like “nationalism” and “self-determination” have traditionally been seen as something…
Less than eight weeks after Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa was chosen to head the army by the prime minister, and some six weeks after Nawaz Sharif is said to have…