India’s new tryst with destiny?
As India turns inwards to its next election, the world watches with a mixture of anxiety and hope. Hope, because India has the capacity to lead South Asia into a…
Bilawal’s journey
The PPP is undoubtedly the most successful political dynasty and electoral franchise in Pakistan. Its success was built upon a popular political slogan ‘roti kapra aur makaan’ – its social…
Aam Aadmi jumps in
India’s all-new Aam Aadmi Party has made a shrewd, calculated move by quitting the Delhi government and jumping into national politics. The issue on which it precipitated its action was…
Challenges: known and unknown
DURING the six months of the current government, there have been few changes on major national issues. Given the rapidly evolving global, regional and domestic developments, the national challenges facing…
The party’s over in Uttar Pradesh
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. How else does one explain the antics of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, the Uttar…
Moving past the crisis metric
The question has become rhetorical: given Pakistan's abundant manpower and natural resources, bilateral donors and the IMF over the years, why has the country not been able to build a…
A new blueprint
It`s going to be a hectic and intense few weeks of European Union-Asia interaction. Top EU officials will hold a record-breaking number of meetings in November with leading policymakers in…
Deweaponising Karachi
The Rangers-led ‘targeted operation’ to restore peace to the city under the direction of the Sindh government commenced on a low-key level – a number of ‘suspects’ taken into…
Can the PPP rise again?
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. A shadow of its former self, can the Pakistan People’s Party…
They all want a Tarar!
Mamnoon Hussain was elected the country's twelfth President as expected. However not quite expected before Raja Zafarul Haq's petition to the Supreme Court to bring the date of the election…
