Bangladesh & 1971 syndrome
Bangladesh is again plunging itself into another phase of political turmoil and violence. The decision by the Dhaka-based International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) to award capital punishment to two key leaders…
IP pipeline: the energy corridor
Amidst heightened frenzy of elections approaching in Pakistan, the President of Pakistan announced the commencement of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline (IP)on March 11, 2013.The purpose of this project was to import…
Pipeline politics
The Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project finalised amidst much fanfare with the presidents of Iran and Pakistan attending the ceremony has been generally supported by the people of this country.…
A compromise solution?
What the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) needed, if not the major political parties that have bickered over the selection of caretaker prime minister endlessly, was a compromise candidate. Former…
A grand bargain?
After a long hiatus, Iran is again sitting across the table from the P5+1 (Germany) in Almaty for talks covering its nuclear programme plus related issues. Both sides have dampened…
Is land reform off the menu? – III
Land and housing reforms: Innovations and opportunities due to the floods: The destruction of life and property of people due to floods have developed the need and rationale for launching…
Our textual religiosity
Whereas an ever-growing number of Islamic social forces in the Muslim world are looking towards Turkey and its Justice and Development Party to replicate its workable model of democratisation as…
State property concerns
`Can governments` dealings with the assets and properties vested in it [government property] give rise to a claim that such dealings violate fundamental rights? `Can government be restrained from dealing…
Politics and the pipeline
The ground-breaking ceremony for the Pakistan section of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline last Monday was an event of high symbolic importance. It was designed to seal Pakistan’s commitment to finally…
Gwadar and ‘the great game’
It is perhaps a less known fact that when President Richard Nixon visited Pakistan in 1973, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sought US help to construct a new port at…
