Mourning a villain
The death of a man who waged war against the Pakistani state and was responsible for the slaughtering of thousands of innocent men, women and children should have come as…
Why isn’t the national flag flying at half-mast?
And why hasn’t a ten-day mourning period been declared for Hakeemullah Mehsud? To hear the tearful reaction from some of our politicos and television pundits it would seem it was…
‘No more’ to ‘do more’
Of late in a retaliatory mood, Pakistan has been playing the ‘no more’ song to Washington’s ‘do more’ mantra. After blocking NATO supply lines through its territory and getting the…
The mystery that is popular choice
Multan politics in this heat is hardly a resort to confirm that you can never fully trust the people. Unless the topic is NATO supply and a truly gifted writer…
The apology that never came
As expected, Pakistan has reopened the NATO supply routes that were closed following the US air attack on a Pakistani border post on Nov 26. The attack lasted 90 minutes…
Pakistan’s hard realities
One can call it ironic that the government’s decision to reopen the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan is getting flak from both sides of the national divide. Many of the…
Brevity not the soul of wit
We were making a point and we’ve made it: this from Ms Hina Khar, our winsome foreign minister, putting a paint brush job on our blocking of Nato supply routes…
What if there isn’t ‘consensus’?
During an informal conversation with media personnel last Monday on board the plane taking him back home after attending the Boao Forum, Gilani said that Pakistan was in no hurry…
Terms of engagement
As the Nato supply trucks begin to cross the Hindukush mountains once again and roll into Afghanistan, our nation is caught up in a semantic debate over linguistics: does the…
What point have we made?
The government’s capitulation on the NATO supply routes was expected even when it was playing its usual diversionary game through parliamentary gimmickry. It had neither the will nor the spine…
