A tale of two mothers
There is never a dull moment in our beloved country. No sooner had the excitement of Arshad Nadeem winning a gold medal subsided that news came of Gen Faiz Hameed’s…
Here we go again
Here we go again with another military operation against the religious extremist terrorists that afflict this country, chiefly Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). This time it is Chinese pressure, casting a deep…
The hopeful future of the Supreme Court
It is a new day in a new Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP). Led by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the SCP now appears to be making noble efforts to…
Irrelevant millions?
As former prime minister Nawaz Sharif prepares for his return to Pakistan next month after four years in exile, his party’s target for defining his successful re-entry to politics is…
The cipher without a conspiracy
The politics of the cipher saga may no longer be newsworthy but the surrounding issues have a lasting place in Pakistan’s domestic dynamics and foreign policy. And there is a…
Time to wake up
What had been forecast by this writer after the post-APS military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP’s) tribal areas in 2014 has come to pass. Not being able to sustain the…
Permacrisis continued
There is an insidiousness to the triumphant fatalism that many voices in Pakistan are increasingly tending toward. This fatalism isn’t because of any ill intention or lack of integrity –…
Chessboard challenges
AS the PML-N-led coalition government completes five weeks in office, there are few hints of the shape its policy responses will take to tackle the dire state of the economy,…
What a fall
The last two weeks in Pakistan’s life have shaken the country to its roots. As far as the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) coalition government is concerned, what a fall…
To Rwanda
WHEN tea was first imported into England, the locals brewed it, threw the liquid away and chewed the tea leaves. Pakistan practises a similar perversity. It imported democracy, theocracy and…
