View Point: Azadi march: where will it end?
If Nawaz Sharif seemed to have learnt from his past mistakes, not anymore considering how he has responded to the first major political challenge thrown his way by the PTI.…
A nervous breakdown
When we are able to regain our sanity, it may be worthwhile to make a serious study of this period when Pakistan became unable to function normally. True, the existing…
Khaled’s miscalculation
Issues evolve. That's how life and time move along. So instead of wallowing in the muddy past, one must trudge onwards, albeit with a clear understanding of how one got…
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…
Two ‘caliphs’
On March 3, 1923, after a heated debate, the Turkish National Assembly abolished the office of the caliphate that had remained with the Ottomans for centuries. Four months earlier, on…
Did you say mid-term?
Welcome to Pakistan, the great laboratory for politico-economic experimentation after major revolutions elsewhere have run their course. The Chinese settled to a combination of party state mothering a capitalist economy.…
Law of unintended consequences
The criticism of rabble-rousers aimed at our dysfunctional state and the pigheaded PML-N government is not disagreeable. It is their anarchic solutions that are problematic. You can’t expect anything better…
Egypt and Syria look more dynamic than this circus
This is not a dysfunctional government. If it were just that we would be lucky. Being dysfunctional implies room for improvement – the stalled engine being made to work. What…
Antisocial media
“We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.” This was what an Egyptian said during the early, heady days of the Arab…
Victory at Mochi Gate
When Sheikhul Islam, Professor, Dr, Syed Tahirul Qadri descended on Islamabad on January 14, 2013 with his horde of revolutionaries, he promised to turn Constitution Avenue into another Tahrir Square.…
