Brief yet enduring?
Chief Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja commenced what will possibly be the shortest term of any Supreme Court chief justice (23 days, ending Sept 9, 2015) with refreshing independence, eg the…
Party rebellion could prompt Greece’s Tsipras to call election
A long night of debate in the Greek parliament is over. By dawn, the legislature had resolved one problem - but now has a new one. Greece can hope for…
Sharif and the Saudis
A couple of things we’ve learned this week. Parliament did a great job, but it was the government that allowed parliament to do the job to begin with. Depending on…
Essential steps
Pakistan’s civilian government and military have come together to fight terrorism with an integrated National Action Plan (NAP). Lessons learned from other countries’ wars against similar totalitarian movements can help…
Integrating Fata
Two recent statements by the Inter-Services Public Relations should have raised the spirits of all those who wish to see a formidable threat to the state and society of Pakistan…
The crippling mix
Last week, Secretary Finance Dr Waqar Masood Khan made supposedly very 'encouraging' disclosures before the Senate's Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatisation about the economy's performance…
Swagger of the second victory
The stage was meticulously set for the grand, generous gesture by the gods of democracy in Pakistan. There was so much praise already for the exemplary restraint that the PML-N…
Governance overhaul
When a building collapses in Pakistan — and sadly this happens often — and people lie there injured and dying, the inevitable debate begins about whether the building was constructed…
A case for Gandhara
Growing up in Lahore I wondered about the gap in my history textbook between the end of Indus Valley civilisation circa 1500 BC and the invasion of Sindh by Mohammad…
A violent endgame
AS the MQM continues to suffer from death by a thousand cuts, many reasonable voices are offering sane advice to the party to save it from itself. Two recurrent themes…
