Friends and enemies
The fate of peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains uncertain after the group ended the month-long ceasefire earlier in December, accusing the Pakistani authorities of failing to honour…
Missing Dilip Kumar in the fight
IT was the thespian’s birthday on Saturday, the first since his demise in July from age-related ailments. The fact that he valiantly fought the fight for India’s cultural soul, for its progressive…
The face of a nation
“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of…
Old battles, new tactics
One step forward, two steps back. That’s how one can sum up the endless saga of India-Pakistan engagement – in six words. If hopeless romantics like us on both sides,…
Invisible and unheard
Ominous times, these are. And it is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of what is happening to this country – and to us, as individuals. Yes, this dark mood…
Saving the elections
The country collectively heaved a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court (SC) suspended the Lahore High Court's (LHC's) judgement asking the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to rectify and…
Superior judiciary: Curtailment of powers
The question what 'Public Interest Litigation' means and is has been deeply surveyed, explored and explained not only by various judicial pronouncements in many countries but also by eminent judges,…
Islamabad’s long shadows
In the midst of more compelling political developments such as the MQM’s travails and the plight of the PPP, not much attention is paid to headlines that may have a…
Bhuttoism vs ‘Imranomics’
It is increasingly clear that PTI and its leader PM Imran Khan (IK) have a two-part vision for this country: a) exposing and penalizing the corrupt and money launderers and…
Rightsizing
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in the social sciences to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own…
