New PM and reforms agenda
Pakistan needs all out fundamental structural reforms in all areas of governance. However, the most important and immediate is political stability — the main challenge faced by the 23rd Prime…
Societal decay
Some changes take shape slowly while others hit like a thunderbolt. Societal decay belongs to both categories: some of it has struck slowly, but the rest has tightened its grip…
Mixed messages or signals?
IF it is mixed signalling from the PDM leadership as part of a deliberate deception strategy it would be one thing, but altogether another if it is mixed messaging and…
Back to horse-trading
IMRAN Khan seems to be doing everything that he once claimed he was fighting against, including political horse-trading that he had earlier condemned as anathema to democracy. A new wave…
Politics at stake
This week’s election for the office of Senate chairman and the election of senators before that have raised serious questions on the role of political parties in strengthening democracy in…
Will CPEC alter Balochistan?
No study can tell us the economic value of the natural gas that has been produced in Dera Bugti since the 1950s and fuelled the rest of Pakistan’s economy. We…
The new normal
It has been two weeks of stupendous importance. The centre of national attention’s gravity has been what has transpired in the Joint Investigation Team’s much-awaited report submitted before the honourable…
The judgment that never came
Over the course of the Panama leaks trial there are a few things that ordinary mortals have learnt: A court is a “court of law….not a court of justice” –…
Quetta, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Pakistan's population has probably crossed 200 million as we enter 2017. This year the country will complete 70 years of existence. By the time it reaches 100 years its population…
Muslim discourse
The wealth and pomp of several Muslim monarchies notwithstanding, the world of Islam is in tatters. Torn by internal strife, lack of focus on starving millions and controlled by greed…
