We are playing games
We, as a nation, have generally been hiding from history. This may be a subterfuge to avoid or ease the pain of the numerous disasters and upheavals of our existence.…
Party games
With thoughts beginning to turn towards an election that now lies just over six months away, the situation of our political parties is naturally something to be contemplated and, perhaps,…
Dangerous games, dangerous implications
In hindsight, the Faizabad dharna seems to have been a successful rehearsal and a prelude to the storm that is now being built to derail a lacklustre democratic transition. This…
Playing old games
Young Kaleem Ullah, who had come from Zhob to study in Quetta, was among the victims of the suicide attack that took place on Tuesday close to the Balochistan Assembly…
Suicidal games
Some are calling it a ‘collective squeeze’. Others name it ‘triple stranglehold’. Yet others describe it as a ‘nut-cracker situation’. Whatever the term, the fundamental fact in all the descriptions…
The outrage media’s war games
The smoke-filled newsrooms of English dailies in the Dubai of the 1980s where a clutch of newspapers had just debuted should normally have been centres of conflict. Indian, Pakistani, Sri…
Sharifs’ legal games
“Pity the nation that launches a movement for rule of law but cries foul when the law is applied against its bigwig….” — Justice Asif Saeed Khosa There are two…
Hunger games – II
Dharna II or the Islamabad lockdown was a fishing expedition. Its stated object was to paralyse the federal government and forcefully remove the prime minister. It failed. Thank God for…
War games
Imran Khan and the PTI didn’t win the 2013 elections but they sure did rock the boat, winning plenty of seats in the National Assembly, taking one province, and even…
Panama and pajama games
Offshore accounts are nothing new. Their semi-legal and unethical status is well known. Corporate and crony capitalism produce outrageous inequality and concentrations of economic and political power. The wealthy and…
