New power balance
The months-long suspense was broken last week by the not-so-surprising choice of a dark horse as the country’s new army chief. It was Nawaz Sharif’s way of playing safe and…
The months-long suspense was broken last week by the not-so-surprising choice of a dark horse as the country’s new army chief. It was Nawaz Sharif’s way of playing safe and…
The interim nuclear deal agreed between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva a week ago has the potential to become a watershed of historic proportions. It could end not only…
With the grant of bail to Musharraf on November 4 in the Lal Masjid case, the former military dictator is again a free man after six months of detention at…
Double-digit inflation has become a norm over the last 10-12 years. By now, people’s inflationary expectations have hardened and they believe that prices will continue to rise at a fast…
An interim six-month deal between GP5 (representing United Nations Security Council's permanent members namely the US, Britain, France, China and Russia) Plus one (Germany) and Iran was struck in the…
The proposer of the phrase "power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" thought corruption was the gravest sin; what he overlooked though, was that corruption (gift of power) is the off-shoot…
The Pakistan Electric Fan Manufacturers Association (PEFMA) is the sole representative trade body of all electric fan manufacturers, assemblers and associated vendor industry across Pakistan. The trade body was founded…
WHEN a US drone killed Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, Pakistan`s interior minister proclaimed it had killed the chances of negotiating peace with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In fact, Pakistani reactions…
BEFORE his death in a US drone strike, the Pakistani Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud had started to feel better thanks to the `spiritual` healing at the hands of an Arab…
My article, ‘The Hamlet in Nawaz Sharif,’ carried by this paper on October 20 has provoked stern reaction. In Pakistan two columnists, Irfan Husain and Masood Hasan, both prolific writers,…