Education conversation
A NARRATIVE has been created and is being reinforced that education devolution, under the 18th Amendment, was a mistake and ‘some’ things need to be brought back under the control/…
Conservation conversations
In September 2016, the world’s most unique ecology forum adopted two motions with potentially far-reaching, multiple impacts on mass participation to combat climate change. These two motions came in the…
Return of a political deal-maker
In addition to hopes of better, smoother civil-military relations with the new army chief and the head of ISI, handpicked by the prime minister, what other major development will tell…
Political economy in Pakistan
Pakistan's political system is flawed and as a result all the resultant actions and implementations are erroneous. Where is reason in the system, where is the thought process. Pakistan will…
Two conversations
I WANT to tie together two conversations about politics because they bring together some strikingly similar views of very different segments in society. I find it useful to explore the…
Punjab legerdemain
AS we know, much has transpired in the country since the PTI’s November rally in Rawalpindi. Recent events are before us, including the de-notification and subsequent reinstatement by the Lahore…
Issue-less politics
Lost in the noise of politics and intensity of power tussles today is any serious focus on the issues that are critical to the country’s future. In the political confrontation…
PML-N’s challenge begins
IMRAN Khan is down but not out. This, it seems, is the emerging consensus since he vacated Prime Minister House only to inhabit the jalsa gah. Political conversations in Islamabad…
The conviction and after
IN what many would describe as a predetermined verdict, a special court has sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his erstwhile foreign minister to a decade behind bars for…
Ode to an opportunity missed
‘SATURDAY Night Massacre’ is a well-understood phrase in US political and judicial history. It refers to a Saturday when, at the height of the Watergate crisis, the then president Richard…
