Pakistan’s unmourned Bouazizi
It was a cold and clammy winter’s evening in Mexico City, but this did not seem to matter. It was a season of mirth and merriment, of mistletoe and chiming…
New turn of events in Kashmir
Kashmiri uprising, spearheaded by stone-throwing children and teenaged boys, which began three months ago, has spread to all parts of occupied Kashmir Valley. Aside from Srinagar city, during the last…
Where are we headed?
The present government might claim dramatic reduction in poverty rates and great economic boon, but as the nation celebrates the fifty-ninth year of its independence, every Pakistani knows that the…
Capital suggestion- Money
The PPP has turned money into the sole determinant of success. I was corrupt and I made a lot of money but my offspring are breaking all my records-that, in…
The imperative of subversion
The passing of the so-called ‘Fair Trial’ Bill in the National Assembly this past week should have raised eyebrows. Notwithstanding its name, the legislation will empower state agencies to intercept…
How Pakistan survives
WHAT keeps Pakistan afloat how, despite its seemingly precarious political existence and the gloom and doom spread by the highly politicised media, as well as the horrendous bomb blasts; does…
Killing fields
Today Pakistan has nothing to smile about. Are people anxious? Dejected? Fearful? Feeling insecure? Why won’t they be, considering the barrage of rotten news assaulting them from every direction? Last…
A timely change
This column was intended to follow up my analysis of certain aspects of the Arab spring and the carnage in Syria, to conclude with an assessment of the latest developments…
Plurality of expression
Religion is viewed as divine inspiration and as guidance for the salvation of human beings. When the divine message, which reveals itself through allegorical and symbolic language, is understood and…
The PPP’s volte-face
It’s a familiar negotiation trick: Party A stubbornly refuses to yield an inch in response to a persistent demand of Party B, because doing so is seemingly not possible for…
