One amendment after another
By the time this piece is published, Pakistan stands to lose a Supreme Court and any modicum of an independent judiciary. Justice Yahya Afridi shall be the last chief justice…
Space for change
Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s victory to become New York mayor proves yet again that, even in a vitiated environment of ‘Trumpian’ proportions, space for change continues to exist. All that is…
A pact between kindred spirits
INDIA’S pact last week for upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers has been seen mostly as an act of befriending the enemy of the enemy, an implied reference to the…
Dissecting Pakistan?
Islamabad is lately abuzz with some ‘Good Samaritan’ voices demanding Pakistan’s division into more than a dozen provinces to ‘improve’ administration and governance. Similar clamour is being generated from select…
Welcome musical interlude
WITH so much murder and mayhem in the world, so much turmoil and intolerance, a genocide (now paused) in the name of ‘self-defence’ and with twisted ideologies and terrorism taking…
The trouble with the Arabs
TO be sustainable, Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza must serve the core interests of Arabs, including Christian Arabs, and the Jews of Palestine/Israel equally and fairly. Infirmities in the…
Producing poverty
FOR most of the Musharraf dictatorship, the World Bank, IMF and other lynchpins of the international financial architecture celebrated Pakistan’s economy. Real estate and stock market booms, the issuing of…
Lest we regret
“MY admiration and respect for you are going up at the same rate as your progress towards a decision to grant military aid to Pakistan,” Saadat Hasan Manto wrote in…
A pact between kindred spirits
INDIA’S pact last week for upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers has been seen mostly as an act of befriending the enemy of the enemy, an implied reference to the…
Martyrs of democracy
“I feel very emotional about coming back to my country. I dreamt about this moment for so long. I hope I can live up to the expectations of the people…
