Modi’s India…Pakistan’s opportunity
Islamabad diary Narendra Modi is the best thing that could have happened to Pakistan. He is making India look like General Zia’s Pakistan. Can there be a bigger favour to…
Their law, our law
As soon as the colonial imperialists undertook the responsibility of reforming the local justice system, they first sought to liberate it from the caprice of the pre-existing Mughal legal system.…
Spiral of despair
OF all the pointless debates, the one currently engaging the attention and energy of a former and the incumbent interior minister must take the cake. The two illustrious gentlemen have…
ViewPoint: It’s a governance failure
No one could have imagined what happened after suicide bombings at two churches in Lahore that left 15 people, including a policeman, dead and at least 85 others injured -…
In the land of ire
The chain of events beginning with last Sunday’s attacks on two churches in Lahore has left the people divided, confused and angry at each other, instead of the bombers being…
A test case for justice
The horrifying case of the killing and burning of a young Christian couple, Shama and Sajjad, by a mob in a village in Kasur could become a test case for…
A land without promise
It was on a doleful winter day many years ago that I happened to travel to Toba Tek Singh. As we drove deeper into the heartland of Punjab, I could…
The case for a Kemalist intervention
Pakistani democracy has done things to itself which it now finds impossible to get rid of. We can take it as an axiom of ‘modern’ civilisation that the state has…
The enemy within
Handery Masih, the Balochistan provincial assembly member who was shot dead last Saturday, and his assassin,Ghulam Mohiuddin, of the Balochistan Levies,roughly represent the forces that are locked in a deadly…
So far away from home
Pakistanis live almost everywhere in the world, in most cases having moved away in search of a better quality of life. This process of movement has continued for decades, beginning…
