Reminisce — it’s less painful
A Decision by the PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to ask Senator Rehman Malik to inquire into the Panama Papers disclosures about the ruling Sharif family was met with predictable…
Be a bully
Here is a much-asked question: what to expect in the months ahead in Pakistan’s seedy politics? There can be several answers to the query, and all fairly accurate. Let us…
Ayodhya: the long wait for justice
It has been 25 years since the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. And it still seems like it was only yesterday that the tragedy that changed India forever struck.…
Rallying for survival
I hate to do this – write on the sorrow state of Nawaz Sharif. The deed is done and the sun has set on his time. Now he can be…
Going gently into the good night
For his dying father, legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote the fabled ‘Do not go gently into that good night’. “Do not go gentle into that good night,/Old age should…
Project Euro
It was supposed to be a grandiose project of economic and political integration on a scale that the world had never witnessed before. But Britain’s exit revealed cracks that had…
SOS to the EPA
My recent participation in an event in village Buchal jolted me out of complacency. It was a public hearing for approval of limestone mining to manufacture cement and it was…
The usual poison
Who were these three men who had wandered into a part of Pakistan forbidden to them on Christmas Day? We must try and find out who these men were to…
Alone with one’s prejudices
Islamabad diary The beliefs I grew up with lie exhausted if not dead. The world has moved on. We grew up in a different world and this world, the one…
The budget… again
And so it happened – again. November 30 saw another mini-budget, another ridiculous claim that it would not have any effect upon the ‘common man’ (has anybody ever found this…
