When failure is victory
TO understand them, there’s just two dates you need to know: 1971 and 1977. In 1971, the Pakistan Army contrived to lose half of Pakistan. In 1977, the Pakistan Army…
And then they lost their nerve
If there was a conspiracy and this is the outcome, the conspirators deserve a long stint in purgatory – or what the Chinese used to call a re-education camp. After…
The tragedy of Pakistan
Breathless with apprehensions about what might happen on August 14 and thereafter we all seem to be. And D-day, with its tryst with D-Chowk in Islamabad, is almost here. It…
The builder of sandcastles
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a dreamer of unreal dreams. He believes that he has the ability to resuscitate the comatose economy and transform Pakistan into an Asian tiger. The…
Waiting for change
LAST year was supposed to be the year of change: new parliament, new government, new army chief, new chief justice. Until they went, nothing would change. After they were gone,…
Our Afghanistan policy
Salutations and congratulations to both Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah of Afghanistan. They are both winners. They have agreed on a total voter audit thereby placing Afghanistan’s interests above their…
Qadri
Capital suggestion The real adrenalin in Qadri’s political veins is the Model Town Massacre. Qadri’s real political pump came from Gullu Butt. Imagine: where would Qadri be without the massacre?…
The fascism that makes trains run on time
We can all do without the fascism that leads to war and rests on theories of Aryan supremacy – concepts such as that of the blond master race, etc, which…
Technocratic rule
Turmoil in the democratic space has breathed new life into an old question: do technocrats do a better job of running things in our country? In some measure, both Imran…
Anti-corruption movement reels from India poll ‘debacle’
Its stunning electoral debut six months ago prevented Narendra Modi's party from taking power of the Delhi state assembly and spectacularly underlined the mounting anger among the public over bribery.…
