African asylum seekers in Sicily dream of soccer glory
Like many young men in Italy, the soccer players who put on their cleats for an afternoon match in this small Sicilian town dream of international stardom on the field.…
View Point: Disarray in our sporting scene
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has finally gotten rid of Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Zaka Ashraf, dissolved the PCB governing board and reappointed Najam Sethi at the head of an eight-member…
Talk, time and tactics
The talk tamasha continues. No one has come out looking good from this absurdity. The two committees have only confirmed what we already knew: that they were a farce. Despite…
Meddling arrogance
Washington cannot understand that interfering in other nations’ domestic affairs is not only dangerous but entirely counter-productive. It should come as no surprise that there has been gross US interference…
Shariah is not the issue
The Taliban are in a war and those fighting wars are realists, not armchair philosophers arguing about theory and metaphysical subtleties. Of course they will say they are for the…
A state adrift…and at war with itself
Is this for real? Are we serious? Brand name Pakistan already has not much going for it, and those in charge, pilots at the helm, seem so determined on turning…
Geez! So many of you!
Under politico-legal pressure, former General Pervez Musharraf has gone on the offensive. As an officer from a fighting arm, he knows that active defence means taking the war to the…
Change in guard
As his closest professional confidante, the choice of chief of the general staff (CGS) is usually a strong indicator of the army chief’s preference for a successor. Passing him over…
Year of transitions
2013 was a year of transitions when new leaderships assumed charge of the government, judiciary and the army. The year saw the realignment of power between different state institutions in…
What’s the Latin for ‘panga lena’?
Of our current prime minister the wicked Husain Haqqani used to say that if an arrow was flying five metres above the ground, there was no stopping him from leaping…
