From Gandhi to Modi
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee made a monumental error by not honouring Mahatma Gandhi before he died. After his assassination in 1948, the committee covered up its inaction by stating…
Neither honest nor ameen
This week the Supreme Court will continue its hearings on three petitions for the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif to be a member of the National Assembly on the ground that…
Look at the law
The blasphemy law was introduced in 1860 by the British government. It prohibited damaging or defiling a place of worship or a sacred object. Violators could receive imprisonment up to…
The rigging Khan doesn’t see
This was discussed before in this column - the shifting of the coordinates of the political pendulum in Pakistan over the years completely to the Right and the pendulum oscillating…
The hard truth about image
Why do we constantly try to project a ‘soft’ image of our country? Why do we urge writers, actors, artists to try and do so, depicting a different picture of…
Turkish fatigue
Turkey, one of our closest friends, holding a special place in what there is of the Pakistani heart; Turkey with whom our ties are not just those of history but…
Gets funnier all the time
Go to YouTube, through a proxy server if you must, and click ‘Pak Tower in Ilford’ and you’ll see two tall tower blocks (plazas as we like to call them…
Spotlight: Will the waves created by Allama Qadri amount to anything?: Political scenario
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
Tribal areas
There was an element of disbelief everywhere when Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on December 12 that the military offensive in South Waziristan was almost over and now the…
Country burns, political class fiddles
As Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani asserts his authority, President Asif Zardari can be forgiven for regretting why he became president instead of prime minister, the real fount of authority…
