Course correction
The furore created by the opposition parties last week over the government’s policy on Syria has died down as abruptly as it began. Neither side has won any laurels from…
Missing the point
Sharif just doesn’t seem to get it. After his meeting with Kerry at The Hague last Monday, the prime minister once again pleaded for US mediation to help resolve the…
The missing link
For those used to seeing the domestic currency do down against the American dollar every now and then, it was a pleasant surprise. Within one week starting March 4, the…
Delusional
During the five years that Zardari was in the presidency, he effectively controlled the federal government through two hand-picked prime ministers whose main qualification for the office was their subservience…
Stretching the truth
Besides the recent dastardly attacks on policemen and Rangers in Karachi, the TTP brutally beheaded 23 Frontier Corps men who had been in its custody in Afghanistan. Why are we…
Part-time Pakistanis
While talking to newsmen in his chamber in the Parliament House last Tuesday, Syed Khursheed Shah, leader of the opposition and of the PPP parliamentary party in the National Assembly,…
The 33 million dollar question
On January 17, Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Bill 2014, a 1,582-page piece of legislation authorising the spending of $1.1 trillion by different agencies of the US government,…
Sindh: beyond symbols
SINDHI Culture Day was celebrated this month: television channels broadcast songs, shows and skits celebrating Sindhi culture and all its symbols: afraks, Sindhi topis, rilis and matkas. Poets and musicians…
Martian chronicles
A Recent editorial in this newspaper drew our attention to Mars One, an ambitious project that aims to take volunteers to the planet on a one-way trip to set up…
PPP’s fortunes
As 2014 begins to unfold itself, one important question is: Can the PPP, until quite recently the country's largest and the most popular political party, revive its fortunes? In a…
