Shrinking political space
The speeches in praise of each other, after the four days of the ‘fake march’ exposed the reality of status quo politics today. It was insincerity at its best. In…
Viewpoint: Wrong ideas of national security
A newly revised Army Doctrine identifies home-grown militancy as the "biggest threat" to national security, replacing India as the enemy Number One. That of course does not mean the conventional…
The judiciary & military
Is there a connection between the Supreme Court’s recent order against the prime minister in the rental power case and Maulana Tahirul Qadri’s long march? Is the “new anti-democratic establishment”…
In a blind alley
The state of Pakistan has been pushed into a blind alley and it is at the same time under attack from hardliners of more than one brand. Nobody knows what…
The fulminations of Tahirul Qadri
The politicians of Pakistan are incapable of saying anything without indulging in coloured phrases of rhetorical exaggeration. The pathetic grandiloquence of their speeches is invariably laced with barbs against their…
No time for mutiny
The symbol of an Anglican bishop is a crook (a hooked staff); and that of an archbishop is a double cross. Coincidentally, that’s what many of the English used to…
PML-N’s financial wizardry
I am surprised to read the PML-N’s defence of the failed economic policies of George W Bush, advocating their implementation in Pakistan. Zubair Mohmmad in his article titled ‘Bushonomics and…
Zia’s decade of darkness
Lahore under terror siege Lahore under terror siege the unenviable position of the most invidious of Pakistan’s rulers, among democrats and dictators alike, is occupied by Ziaul Haq, the dictator-general…
Why so impatient with democracy?
This nation suffered Field Marshal (self-appointed) Ayub Khan as its ruler for eleven years, and General Ziaul Haq for another eleven years, and Pervez Musharraf for eight and a half…
