Is land reform off the menu – I?
In a recent TV interview, Imran Khan, Chairman TI, has revealed that a great debate has been going on in his party regarding land reforms. However, the arguments and proponents…
Viewpoint: Qadri, Qadeer And The Media
Tahirul Qadri who flew in from his home in Canada with the stated objective of saving this state from politicians and the unstated aim of derailing the democratic system by…
Who says countries are permanent?
We should know this more than others. The Pakistan of 1947 is not the Pakistan which exists today, one half of it having broken away to form another country. I…
Citizens for fair elections
The civil society, bolstered by its stellar performance in the movement for the restoration of the judiciary, is once again back in action. This time it is striving to ensure…
Our textual religiosity
Whereas an ever-growing number of Islamic social forces in the Muslim world are looking towards Turkey and its Justice and Development Party to replicate its workable model of democratisation as…
How he blew it!
Let’s hand it to Asif Ali Zardari – what fate decrees he accepts uncomplainingly. As the consort of the vastly more educated and cerebral Benazir he struggled manfully even if…
It’s our country
The last few months have given us the feeling that it is indeed our own country we are living in. Had this not been so, we would not have appreciated…
An interim agenda
By any standards the interim government, whose outlines are now beginning to appear, has a heavy agenda and a light mandate. This is a bad combination. Here is some of…
The cup and the lip
Amidst heightened frenzy of elections approaching in Pakistan, presidents of both the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan jointly laid down the foundation stone of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline (IP)…
Of distant dreams and false myths
The goodwill Indians and Pakistanis manifest for each other can vanish in a jiffy when the hate-mongers on both sides get going. The ensuing slanging match usually takes the form…
