Who won Rangers’ Gate?
On Monday morning, Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s minister of interior was denied entry to the accountability court proceedings by the Rangers deployed at the court. To his credit, the interior minister…
Legal eye: Path to reform?
Our biggest failing during Pakistan’s 70-year journey has been our inability to evolve consensus around a path to progress and reform. Let’s leave conspiracy theories aside for a minute. Let’s…
The general’s farewell service to the nation
Maulana Fazlur Rehman doesn’t realise the debt of gratitude he owes Imran Khan. If it weren’t for Khan would Nawaz Sharif bother about the Maulana and put up with his…
Not dealing with India
The 199th corps commander meeting last week expressed the apprehension that India’s unprovoked violations across the Line of Control and the Working Boundary pose a potential threat to regional stability.…
The foreign problem
Well, knock us over with a feather and tickle us all over — Raheel is going to do what? And for whom? And why, exactly? Once the appointment fandango dies…
The Karkey scam
According to Transparency International (TI), Pakistan lost more than Rs 8.5 trillion (US $94 billion) in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance when the PPP-led coalition was in power from…
Report card time
A year of three halves, dominated by three men; it’s report card time again. And a middling year it was for all three. Let’s begin with the chap who has…
On a knife edge
It's not the confidence — he’s always had that. It’s the snarl and the menace. Imran is moving in for the kill. And this time the prey is in sight…
Lahore to Panama
The immortal Ardeshir Cowasjee would have summed it up thus: “Saala sab chor hai.” And, if he were feeling a bit more expansive, Ardeshir may have added that you can’t…
The Musharraf farce
Can Pakistan turn around its civil-military imbalance? We have been provided the answer resoundingly. The courts and government have presented a unified position. Former dictator, Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, has…
