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Politicians` Influence

Politicians` influence

The brutal gang-rape and torture of `Nirbhaya`, a 23-yearold physiotherapy student in New Delhi on Dec 16 led to spontaneous countrywide demonstrations of a kind never seen before. The young…

The Need For A New Story

The need for a new story

There are competing narratives about the US`s drone war in the Waziristan area, a bastion of militants. These narratives have so far failed to gain traction in the public, inside…

Pakistani Comedy: Latest Offering

Pakistani comedy: latest offering

Long march successful or not, the fun has already started. Whether Zardari bonzes or Punjab stalwarts, it is no little comedy seeing them running scared and getting hoarse in the…

What Is There To Talk About?

What is there to talk about?

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) delights in showing us off as a helpless and contemptible force. So last week, when the TTP’s offer of peace talks hit the newswires we perked…

2008 Versus 2013

2008 versus 2013

In my article, ‘The worst is still to come’, published on January 1, I had written that “under the most likely business-as-usual scenario, Pakistan’s economic downturn is likely to gain…

Outcome of judicial activism

The PPP chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in his first public speech, underlined the exercise of judicial activism by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and objected to the court’s performance. He…

Good Morning

Good Morning

Given the obvious, anxious challenges that the country faces this December, in a political climate of grim questions and gnawing growing concern, it could be a matter of opinion on…

Viewpoint

Viewpoint

Those who thought the PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari was a smart political tactician when he managed to rally the support of almost all political parties except the PML-N and…

Future Of US Aid

Future of US aid

Pakistan’s checkered history of economic and political dependence on the US is once again on a treacherous trajectory, although it is hard to foresee any enduring shift without basic structural…

The Polio Challenge

The polio challenge

It is heartening to note that despite the prevalence of a perilous environment surrounding the anti-polio campaign, courtesy the ill-will of some militant elements, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has…