Untimely rains
THE worthy climate change minister must be eating her words right now. Quick to claim credit for untimely rainfall, she has since disappeared after the same rainfall became tragic. The…
A house divided
The National Action Plan, or NAP, can now read ‘National Action Politics’. The Plan no longer represents the desire of our national institutions to fight the complex network of terrorists…
Political temperature on the rise
Is the political tempo on the rise due to domestic and regional issues making headlines, especially the feverish activity at the level of centre-province relations as well as at the…
Blip on the radar
For years, Pakistani bureaucrats, politicians and army chiefs have wondered: ‘how can we get the world to take an interest in Kashmir?’ The state’s diplomats have presented the case to…
Quiet convulsions
It is correct to think that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is at the strongest political point in his career. Ironically, he is also at his most vulnerable, even though not…
The real dialogue we need
Borrowing the expression from the outstanding writer of mystery fiction and detective stories in Urdu, Ibn-e-Safi, a dear friend and an ardent supporter of Imran Khan asked me the other…
Israel’s barbarism in Gaza
More than a month after Israel launched a murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip, with over 2,000 casualties, there’s still no clarity about when ‘Operation Protective Edge’ might end. Israel…
Media and its maladies
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for…
Pakistan and leadership transition in China
Since the 1990s, China's top leaders serve a maximum of two five-year terms. With the last batch of leaders having reached the end of their second term last year, there…
No longer status quo
So the Swiss letter affair is over, with barely a blip appearing on the national political radar. Never mind that the federal government was hostage to the issue for three…
