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Change In The Air

Change in the air

Writing in The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli says: “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.” The insights of this great…

The Road To Hell

The road to hell

Last week I went to Karachi. I saw nothing on TV but tickers mentioning murders, targeted killings, grenade attacks, buses, motorcycles and cars being set on fire. Despicable and horrendous…

A Man Called Azad Hussain

A man called Azad Hussain

One learns from unlikely sources. A person who unfailingly gave me pause for thought is Azad Hussain. He was a man of humble means but was blessed with the ability…

Peace Needed For Development

Peace needed for development

The federal cabinet`s decisions to hand over Gwadar port to the Chinese and to go ahead with the Iran Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project despite US pressure seem to be…

Kargil Heights

Kargil heights

The successful first three years of his civilian rule notwithstanding, Musharraf failed to give his own core constituency the leadership and direction they deserved for their unwavering loyalty to him…

The Punjab Factor

The Punjab factor

The persistent structural flaws in information processing and coordination among intelligence and law-enforcement agencies were once again exposed during the Supreme Court suo motu hearing of the Hazara killings. The…

Our Founders And Guardians

Our founders and guardians

A fellow-columnist has asked why “if we had to go through this (the mess that Pakistan has become today) did we go through the trouble of Partition?” (February 22). Let’s…

India’s Self-goal In The Valley

India’s self-goal in the Valley

On the morning of Feb 9, 2013, Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri convict on death row, lodged in New Delhi’s high security Tihar jail was taken from his cot by the…

No Wrong Turn Now

No wrong turn now

It is time the pernicious idea of giving a few years` contract to some caretakers to clean up Pakistan`s rotten-egg politics and put the affairs of the state in order…

Change: Order Vs Disorder

Change: order vs disorder

The Bible says there is a time for every purpose under heaven - "A time to be born and a time to die;...a time to weep and a time to…