Fewer APCs and more action
In the aftermath of the Mustang tragedy, yet another all-parties conference was been convened by the chief minister of Balochistan which was chaired by the prime minister with the COAS…
When parties die
Political parties too have a sense of immortality like human beings. We know we have to die one day. But, exceptions aside, this immutable fact has little influence on what…
A love-hate relationship
What is most striking about the BBC’s report that the MQM’s militants are trained in India, which also funds the MQM’s purchase of weapons? That key sources of the story…
Repeating history
The Nawaz League’s third government at the centre will be completing its two years by early June. Having replaced arguably the most corrupt dispensation that ran the roost for a…
It is not OK to kill
We seem to be losing our sense of proportion and balance as a society. Lawyers may have let idealists down when they failed to take the rule of law movement…
Media manoeuvring
As soon as the law-enforcement agencies formally launched the Karachi operation this year, the electronic media somehow became a sort of hot battleground between MQM and anti-MQM quarters in the…
Operation Stalemate
Timeline: In January, the National Action Plan (NAP) was firmed up. In January, the GHQ facilitated the formation of apex committees for the implementation NAP. In March, Nine-Zero was raided.…
The Bilawal-PPP binary
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the PPP and the most popular ever politician of Pakistan, once said that if he was assassinated, his ghost would return to replace him…
Beginning of the end
It’s hard to write about Altaf Hussain without fearing reprisal. Zulfiqar Mirza opened up some public space to critique Altaf Bhai, but just a bit. Call it Punjabi bias, but…
Army isn’t the solution
After five years of PPP's 'democratic' dispensation (over which its co-chairman and Pakistan's sitting president has 'no regrets') the issue reaching the boiling point is the deep-rooted lawlessness all over…
