Peace after UP elections?
India is up for a grand polarisation on communal and secular lines as all eyes are now focused mainly on the elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Bihar might not be…
Fighting Daesh
A section of the security establishment has come out of its denial mode about the presence of Isis/Daesh in Pakistan and started recognising the challenges posed by it. A recent…
Securing Pakistan?
Members of Pakistan’s strategic community were jubilant earlier this year with the launch of the first ever submarine-based nuclear-capable ballistic missile followed by a long-range missile capable of carrying multiple…
Breaking the shackles
Former president Asif Ali Zardari’s long awaited arrival in Pakistan in December 2016 was not very remarkable. The co-chairperson of the PPP made his short appearance in the country only…
Hussain Nawaz’s defence!
The much talked about recent interviews of Hussain Nawaz, the elder son of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on the electronic media in which he referred to tax avoidance (as opposed…
No end to tax amnesties – II
Since November 1990, when Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister of Pakistan for the first time, the culture of loot, plunder, corruption, tax evasion and money laundering has been legalised and…
Ruin comes when…
Ruin comes when the trader, whose heart is lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler-Plato in Republic Since November 1990, when Muhammad Nawaz Sharif became Prime Minister of Pakistan for the…
The oranging of Lahore
While PM Nawaz is off to London to fix up his faulty ticker one hopes that his younger sibling, CM Shahbaz has a change of heart too and puts a…
Spineless in Lahore
Urdu is a marvellous language for vaulting flights of fancy. So when Nawaz Sharif promised an accounting for every drop of innocent blood spilled by jihadi terrorists, we almost believed…
Bleeding the white in our flag
The Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore was meant to do many things. One of them was killing Christians. There is no punishment in Pakistan for hooliganism, or barbarianism, or wanton…
