NAP: giving up too soon
What we can learn from the cricket field is to not give up too soon. Of course, taken away from the context of sport – where a change in team…
Can we at least be spared the fabrications?
The hypocrisy and the charade on parade would stick in throats more capacious than ours. The defence of the Holy Mosques is every Muslim’s sacred duty, we are breathlessly informed.…
Politics in Pakistan
Politics is about never acknowledging serious mistakes and Pakistani politicians have displayed this tendency like their counterparts in the rest of the world. However while in the West politicians' focus…
Into the vortex?
Remember those 1.5 billion dollars that were given to us by our Saudi friends (not masters) just about a year ago? Talented samdhi and finance minister Ishaq Dar had told…
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…
The apology we need
On September 28 the PPP’s young chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in an open letter to his estranged party supporters, apologised for all past mistakes and promised corrective measures to regain…
Sources of the self
The contours of the discourse on self, state and society started to change under the influence of different ideologies vying for domination over self and society in the newly established…
The Project
Let us call it The Project. Since its launch over three-and-a-half decades ago, it has taken many forms and has gone through many stages. In the beginning, it was aimed…
Menace of narco-terrorism
Every survey made since promulgation of Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979 ["Hadd Order"] shows that this nation has been persistently sinking deeper into narco-terrorism-a term signifying the drug-terror trap.…
Budget 2015-16: Another ritualistic exercise! – II
In budget 2014-15, FBR target was fixed at Rs. 2810 billion, which was later reduced to Rs. 2605 billion. The worthy Finance Minister is full of praise for FBR's bosses…
