America takes a Trump
On Monday this week, the world began to change in ways that are not easy to decipher. What is really intriguing is that it is all because of a change…
Descent into fascism
The violence, arson and pillage that followed the arrest of populist leader Imran Khan is emblematic of Pakistan’s descent into fascism. The way mobs ran rampage across the country may…
Musk projects his hard-right influence in Europe
He demanded new elections in Britain, promoted Germany’s far-right, blasted the European Commission — and that’s just the start. Elon Musk is pushing the hard right in Europe, where progressives…
A volatile world in 2025
THE world seems more unstable and unpredictable today than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Heightened geopolitical tensions, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and…
The era of old politics is over
The political landscape of Pakistan over the last five decades has reached a critical juncture, with its major political parties either in decline or approaching irrelevance. The Pakistan Peoples Party…
Politicians and their clothes
POLITICIANS and their clothes can never be separated from politics. It is the side plot which moves along with the main story — scene to scene, act to act —…
Lessons from US
America and Pakistan are two totally different countries, and their democracies are very different breeds. Yet the recent US elections have some relevance, if not lessons, for Pakistan. The majority of Trump supporters were…
Nemesis over America
The choice between Donald J Trump and Kamala Harris in the US presidential election was irrelevant to one fact: the ongoing decline of the United States. It has lost leadership,…
The unsupremacy of parliament
To divert attention from the malevolent person-specific nature of most clauses in the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill adopted helter-skelter without extensive public debate on October 20-21, 2024, the self-righteous refrain…
Reshaping knowledge
GEOPOLITICS and geo-economics are seen as parallel pathways to progress. When there is harmonisation between the two, the outcome is good; when political differences come in the way of economic…
