Pak-US relations in the Trump era
The most important single event in the Pakistan-US relationship in the last decade was the November 26, 2011 slaughter of over two dozen Pakistani soldiers on the border with Afghanistan…
Words and deeds
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif was right on the money when he said condemnation was too small a word in response to the US drone attack. This attack…
An imperfect solution
Having called each other rats, sworn to rip apart stomachs to extract corruption money including loan write-offs, implied preference for selective accountability, declared the PM ghaddar, claimed wringing the necks…
The law of contempt
Article 19 of Pakistan’s constitution gives every citizen the right to freedom of speech and expression. This right is unconditional and no restrictions are imposed on it in the constitution.…
Doing the right thing
A rearguard move is underway to create an ‘enabling environment’ for Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to go against his recently-spoken words of leaving the post on time,…
The game is up…business in on
The army chief dealt his hand and the game is up. True to his plain-speaking style and also conscious of his public image, the general was not going to let…
Dealing with interference
Reportedly, the Pakistan government has decided to formally raise the issue of Indian interference in Pakistan at the United Nations, ostensibly in the backdrop of a recent BBC report alleging…
Cat on a hot tin roof
In the past, former president Asif Ali Zardari had complained of tomcats lapping up all the milk but last week it was his own demeanor that resembled a cat on…
Triumph of the will…the power of determination
Idolise Imran Khan or pillory him, the fact remains that against the odds, out of the seemingly impossible, through sheer force of personality he has shaped an agitation…which if led…
Tribulations of parliamentary democracy
This is not the failure of democracy. But it certainly is the failure of one brand of democracy, that of the parliamentary kind. We just don’t seem to have it…
