Israel’s barbarism in Gaza
More than a month after Israel launched a murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip, with over 2,000 casualties, there’s still no clarity about when ‘Operation Protective Edge’ might end. Israel…
More than a month after Israel launched a murderous onslaught on the Gaza Strip, with over 2,000 casualties, there’s still no clarity about when ‘Operation Protective Edge’ might end. Israel…
Pakistan has a national crisis in education in dire need of a national response. But the responsibility to deal with this rests with the provinces after the 18th Constitutional Amendment.…
Shortly before his seven-month term as the chief justice of Pakistan came to an end, Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jillani authored a landmark judgement concerning the rights of religious minorities. The…
Bigger rallies have been held in London against the Israeli assault on Gaza than anything we are likely to see here. This is a mirror copy of what happened during…
Prakash Jha has made many fine films – last year’s Satyagraha isn’t one of them. To those who have had to bear a three-hour project go slowly off the rails,…
Lahore hasn’t had this kind of variety for a long time. It has been boringly two-sided for most of the last quarter-century. There would be the PML faction led by…
There are few examples, anywhere in the world, where fundamental social, political or economic reforms have taken place without resort to street agitation. No one gives up economic or political…
The fear is not that all this talk of revolution and marches will disrupt the democratic process. The fear is that it will do nothing of the kind, that nothing…
Silence is the virtue of fools, counselled Sir Francis Bacon. Throughout the long, silent era that was prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s time in office, one longed to hear the…
We have at least four accounts of whether - and how - a deal was struck between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf on the latter's…