The chicken and the fox
This is the kind of wisdom we had lost in colonial slavery. Unfortunately, it still remains beyond the reach of colonised minds. Imagine what we had lost. This is the…
De facto to de jure
Maulana Tariq Jameel said it best at the Supreme Court’s population conference: “Our judges are such [a] blessing as they keep doing what they aren’t responsible for. God Bless them”.…
Moving beyond the family
After the controversial decision of the Supreme Court to remove Nawaz Sharif, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been elected as the new prime minister with a thumping majority. The opposition is…
The first signs
IT is not clear whether or not we are allowed to speak about it before the expiry of the three-month deadline that Prime Minister Imran Khan set at the post-victory…
ARTICLES Our Augean stables must be cleaned up
PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has been celebrating his acquittal by a NAB court in the last and final of six corruption references against him, as a newspaper report put…
11 days of living dangerously
Once again, T S Eliot – and it’s not about April being the cruellest month. There is a cryptic question which the poet posed: “Where is the life we have…
A bumpy transition
The former prime minister had pretty much left the stage, but Nawaz Sharif has staged a dramatic comeback in a rearguard legislative action and re-election as the president of the…
Betwixt and between
In almost every village in India, some ghost lurks in a tree or a deserted house. This ghost usually belongs to a person who failed to make the transition from…
What is and what ought to be
There is an historian sitting inside every middle-class Pakistani; this historian tells them what they want to hear. This Herodotus inside many analysts has told them that there is nothing…
Dealing with the devil
We had drawn the image of a beast in our minds. Let’s admit it: we are shocked that Imran Ali does not conform to that image. Child protection experts warn…
