As you sow, so shall you reap
As expected, leaders of all political parties as well as the Army chief have strongly condemned the assassination attempt on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal by a man affiliated with the…
Shifting winds of politics
It is election season, and a time for migratory birds to move to new nesting grounds. This past Monday the first flock of eight PML-N legislators from southern Punjab quit…
All the people, all the time?
In 1998, Nawaz Sharif tried to augment his powers as prime minister and perhaps subvert democracy when he tried to bring in the controversial Shariah bill or the 15th Amendment.…
What must be
If the last fortnight or so contained small seeds of hope that the current political crisis may be winding down a notch or two, more recent developments seem to have…
What a mess
The state of Pakistan is in a functional paralysis. Governance is non-existent. The prime minister of the country spends his weekends in London lecturing undergrads in poorly attended seminars on…
NS turns ideological
And this is no pun. Towards the end of his political career, age, illness and all, he has inducted the new and the bold into his Central Executive Committee; his…
Year five: victory or curse?
The predictable has happened, but now comes the unpredictable part: what next? Forget the law, let’s get to the politics of it. At least the timeline is clear. Thirty days…
Tainted but intact
As the Saudi royal jet took off from Lahore airport carrying the former Pakistan army chief to his new assignment in Riyadh merely a day after a Supreme Court verdict…
Panama time
The rumour mill is in overdrive, everyone’s got a theory or two, folk are on the verge of eruption and conniptions. It’s circus time again. Panama is in the air.…
Silence is golden
Random thoughts One can’t help but be shocked by the rhetoric used by political leaders in TV programmes. It leaves the impression that all norms of decency, social value and…
