An indomitable man
This is the fourth and last part on that great patriot, the late Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to whom this country owes much. Before writing about the unpleasant events of the…
The never-ending battle
Afshan Ahmed, a teacher at the Army Public School in Peshawar, bravely stood between her students and the Taliban gunmen that invaded the school on December 16, 2014 and entered…
The old tottering, the new struggling to be born
Sounds a bit dramatic, the title, doesn’t it? But I get the feeling that hesitantly, without most of us fully realising it, a new history is being written. A country…
Tribulations of parliamentary democracy
This is not the failure of democracy. But it certainly is the failure of one brand of democracy, that of the parliamentary kind. We just don’t seem to have it…
The IDPs deserve better
The signs of unrest and despair among the people displaced from North Waziristan Agency, on account of the military operation there, must begin to be addressed before the situation takes…
From Gandhi to Modi
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee made a monumental error by not honouring Mahatma Gandhi before he died. After his assassination in 1948, the committee covered up its inaction by stating…
Turning out to be a ship of fools
This would be a comedy if it wasn’t so grim at the same time. The great helmsmen are just not getting it and with every passing day things are slipping…
No winning wars under divided leaderships
The army deaths in Fateh Jang caused by a suicide bomber, the deaths in Bajaur, other incidents in Fata – do we need any more reminders of the fact that…
View Point:The question of national honour
It could happen only in Pakistan. With a valid Canadian visa stamped on his passport, a sitting member of Parliament, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, had just embarked a Toronto-bound flight of…
Hypocrisy: the name of the game
Fuming and frothing they demand Musharraf be made an example of for his act of treason. They give long sermons on the virtues of democracy and on the curse of…
