After five years, 275 defendants and 40,000 legal documents, the marathon court case against the alleged underground Turkish terrorist organisation Ergenekon finally ended on Monday. Among those accused of planning…
The overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, the first Egyptian president from the long-persecuted Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) will have a lasting impact on the politics of the region. Given its historical, social…
We in Pakistan are all too familiar with what has happened in Egypt: military ousting an elected government and putting its leader in prison. It looks a bit different though.…
Musharraf’s coup in 1999 was an aberration. The months leading to it were undoubtedly tense but in no way betrayed a trigger-happy general’s inclination to launch an offensive against his…
Is there a connection between the Supreme Court’s recent order against the prime minister in the rental power case and Maulana Tahirul Qadri’s long march? Is the “new anti-democratic establishment”…
Successive governments in Pakistan - civil and military alike - have demonstrated criminal apathy and negligence in promoting tax evasion and flight of capital from Pakistan. It was legalised by…
About five years ago, the commandant of the Pakistan Army’s most well-reputed cadet-officer training academy invited me to address trainees on a date of my choice in the second half…
IF the government announces replacing the parliamentary system with a presidential one, would the reason suffice that many democracies in the world have presidential systems? And since parliamentary democracy in…
JIMMY Carter’s extraordinary longevity partly accounts for his exceptional status among the US presidential pantheon. He was born when Calvin Coolidge occupied the White House, the Soviet Union was in…
WE are reaching a point where we are unable to count the number of times the expression ‘yet another attempt’ has been used for the state’s efforts to restrict freedom…
