Dangerous trends in rural areas
Pakistan is governed in a miserable way. For what our policymakers do not see does not exist. Pakistan is full of self-opinionated anchors and self-opinionated civil servants. Well, all of…
The grand player
The bar for a successful chief of army staff is very low in Pakistan. So long as you don’t show so much disdain for democracy that you do away with…
Bankruptcy of the mental kind
“Such incidents are not conducive to peace talks…”, PM Sharif. Some revelation this…if the death toll in the Peshawar church attack had been somewhat lower, would that have facilitated peace…
The sovereignty hysteria
The hysterical reaction to the Kerry-Lugar bill by formerly rational TV anchors, analysts and politicians is painful to watch. True, one does not expect any better from those who only…
US-Pakistan
The debate over the $7.5 billion Kerry-Lugar Bill - The Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act - passed by the US Senate late September seems to have generated great confusion, bemusement…
Winning hearts, avoiding waste
Finally the much awaited Kerry-Lugar Bill has been approved by the US Congress. And what was being heralded as a new chapter in the bumpy Pakistan-US relationship has, unfortunately, started…
Aid without USAID
Last year, after the United States Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar Bill, and after a series of visits to the region, special envoy Richard Holbrooke, who personally signs every contract concerning…
Cutting Hillary Clinton some slack
This is the fellow that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to stand beside as she tries to squeeze more juice out of a Kerry-Lugar Bill that had its lifeblood…
US aid
The Kerry-Lugar bill and the Berman bill are now in the process of being merged. Not many stakeholders in Pakistan have examined or minutely gone through the 58-page Berman and…
KLB
The Kerry-Lugar bill (KLB) on US aid to Pakistan has sparked angry debates in parliament and outside. Unfortunately common citizens are facing difficulties in understanding much of what has been…
