Biggest exposure: of courage and dignity
Islamabad diary On the financial side the Panama revelations have only confirmed what we already knew…that Nawaz Sharif and family have wealth stashed abroad and have prized property in central…
Dodging the taxman
Pakistan’s history of financial scandals offers little hope of the Panama leaks’ controversy finally provoking a tightening of the noose around the rich and the mighty. The ultimate fate of…
Will it ever end?
MAKE it stop. Someone make it stop. It has to stop, right? Right? It can’t go on forever. Or can it? Please no. Help. Someone — anyone — help. The…
NAB and corruption debate – I
Pakistan has been facing a daunting challenge of curbing perpetual and growing corruption for the last many decades. The submission and resubmission of report on 6th and 13th July 201,…
Who won the dharna?
Imran Khan has a secret weapon. He has been using it since the first day of his Islamabad dharna at D-Chowk. This secret weapon has a name. We will get…
Pantomime of the stooges – continueth
In box office terms this is already a roaring success, the longest comedy show currently running in the country. Three of the four characters tasked by the government to grapple…
Right reigns supreme
If there was ever an example of losing at the negotiating table what couldn’t have been lost in battle, we needn’t look far. The government’s acceptance of the talks offered…
It’s a family affair
Soon after assumption of office Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wrote a letter to federal ministers and secretaries telling them, among other good things, to strongly tackle nepotism and conflict of…
