Charter of economy
Ishaq Dar, the Federal Finance Minister, has on several fora urged all political parties to agree to a charter of the economy so that reforms undertaken by one government are…
Abusing a legacy
SINCE the 1970s, there has been a visible decline in governance overall. Government machinery seems helpless while the law is flouted by various lashkars and private militias. Back in the…
Steps towards a new Pakistan
Imran Khan has sworn that he will converge on Islamabad today with thousands of his supporters. He is convinced that this will be a game-changer. In a few days the…
Rationality being Compromised
Following the almost unanimous condemnation of the electoral process in the 2013 general elections, on April 1 - day whereon people play tricks with each other - the President of…
The illusion of parliamentary democracy
In Pakistan it is suddenly the season of mass rallies and prolonged sit-ins accompanied by violence which no other civilised country would allow. The current fad of every politician is…
Move for a broad gag law
In view of the widespread denunciation of the new Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PEC) Bill, by both national and international human rights organisations as well as experts among the stakeholders,…
Dismantling the elitist model
THERE are two ways of drawing lessons from the PTI and PAT dharnas and protests. The government may feel it has been so bruised and weakened that it has no…
The year of living dangerously
Homer said that the outcome of war is in our hands. But is it really? Following the last India-Pakistan showdown on the hills of Kargil in Kashmir in 1999, then…
Metro bus politics
Considered a fact of life in big cities elsewhere, mass transit projects such as the Bus Rapid Transit system have become a source of political polarization in Pakistan. The arguments,…
Is the party over?
The political parties are jubilant for various reasons at the unofficial results of the local government elections held recently in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf wants us to believe that…
