Beginning of the end
Thousands of Shia protesters braved sub-zero temperature for nearly three days as they staged a sit-in in Quetta, refusing to bury 87 victims of the January 10 twin bombings at…
Make-or-break month for Merkel’s deputy Roesler
Germany's deputy chancellor, Philipp Roesler, faces a make-or-break month as head of the Free Democrats, with a key speech to his pro-business party Sunday and elections in his home state…
The silent bystanders
The curious rumblings being witnessed on the eve of yet-to-be announced elections in Pakistan can be perceived as a game between entrenched political insiders, mainly consisting of the two major…
Tax delinquents
A resident of Alberta, Canada, has posed a question through email that deserves a detailed and satisfactory reply. The statement quoted in this mail, though based on misunderstanding, reflects sadly…
Spotlight: ‘Popular take-over’ of the government in the offing?: Spanner in the works or saviour? Your choice!
Politics is in something of a commotion following Allama Tahirul Qadri's ultimatum, MQM's firm opposition to fresh delimitation of constituencies and to voter-lists correction, Sindh's unequivocal stand against Sindh Peoples…
Turkey’s Erdogan decade
Not long ago, Turkey was a security state where the establishment controlled policy through a shadow government. A clandestine network of military officers and their civilian proxies exercised utmost ‘legitimacy’…
Spotlight
Results of the just concluded by-elections for Punjab Assembly seats appear to have cast a pall of gloom on the spirits of PPP, of not just the rank and file,…
Spotlight: Will the waves created by Allama Qadri amount to anything?: Political scenario
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
Obama’s Burma policy slips
BARACK Obama’s policy of ‘pragmatic engagement’ with the Burmese military junta is in danger of falling apart as the generals press ahead with plans for elections later this year from…
Smokers’ Corner
By studying the electoral history of Karachi and Lahore, one can largely ascertain the general political and ideological mood of Pakistan’s urban bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeoisie. In 1970 when the country…
