Exclusive hedge funds crack open door to Main Street
As a $14.8 billion hedge fund with a reputation for savvy mortgage trades and a record of double-digit returns, Pine River Capital Management has long signed up multi-billion-dollar pension and…
Zarb-e-Azb, smoking and lung cancer
Zarb-e-Azb has begun. The stern military action that various circles in and outside Pakistan have demanded for years is now finally taking place. Some Pakistanis have expressed their support for…
Waiting for God
The images of the Karachi airport attackers, posted so proudly on jihadi websites, were still fresh in the mind when clips of the fighters who had overrun Iraqi defences at…
Shifting the focus
So, the UK authorities decided to go with a money laundering case, and the question now is whether the arrest will be followed by legal charges. This is the procedure…
The sectarian divide
THE sectarian divide is widening and intensifying in Pakistan. It is not only shaping trends and behaviours but also gradually changing the country’s socio-cultural landscape. Apart from its social, cultural…
A revolutionary’s case
The proceedings in court on the FIR in the case against Bhagat Singh for the murder of SSP John P. Saunders in Lahore in 1928 indicate yet another stage in…
Little by little
Slowly but surely the violent non-state actors are pushing Pakistan towards the brink. Little by little we are witnessing the state’s writ being eroded. Gradually Pakistani society’s descend into lawlessness…
Being a national security state
If you’re going to be a national security state, you have to do it better. You have to be scary, but scary to the point of reverence, not scary to…
Democracy on trial
What’s the best way to protect and strengthen Pakistan’s fragile democratic system? This perhaps remains the mother of all questions for many of the movers and shakers of Pakistani politics…
The skyline changeth
Oh, ever so subtly it changeth. A week ago, give or take a few days, no man had more reason to be self-satisfied than Mr Nawaz Sharif, virtually master of…
