Crisis rumbles on
THE crisis is over. No, it isn’t. The crisis is winding down. No, it’s heating up. Imran and Qadri are going home empty-handed. No, they’re going home with Nawaz or…
A new Kayani moment?
STOP the press. It’s official. The PML-N is committing political suicide. Nawaz and co are back — the original, unreconstructed Nawaz and co — and they’re dying to get kicked…
The blinkered and the ‘im-witted’
The supporters of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) are single-minded and focused. The blinkers of their resolution come from their belief in the spiritual superiority of Dr Tahirul Qadri. Their…
A fight of vanities
One would have thought that with the country at war, our politicians – always so egotistical and yet so insecure – would put to the side their usual bickering if…
Bloody instructions
There is one thing that the azadi and inquilab marches have generated in massive amounts, and that is debate. There have been exchanges on what constitutes an unconstitutional act, on…
Army holds the key…the rest light and shadow
No change has ever occurred in Pakistan except through the power of the sword - the open or hidden intervention of the army. Why should it be different this time?…
Qadri
Capital suggestion The real adrenalin in Qadri’s political veins is the Model Town Massacre. Qadri’s real political pump came from Gullu Butt. Imagine: where would Qadri be without the massacre?…
If only leadership was a pizza
What will you say of a country whose leading newspapers, best English ones included, on their front pages carry identical photos with this caption underneath, “Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif…
Frantic
There was scant reason to believe that Nawaz Sharif was born to rule a large and restless country but there he is – Pakistan’s longest serving prime minister. He is…
Time to write on water-logging
When martial law was imposed in Oct 1958 the editor of the Pakistan Times, the country’s leading newspaper then, was Mazhar Ali Khan. Praising martial law was out of the…
