As the last day of 2012, today has a bittersweet taste to it. Buckle up for a rollercoaster 2013. It’s gonna be one helluva ride.So as Pakistan gallops into yet another election year, it does ...
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red.” – ...
They come, they kill, they get killed. They come again, are mowed down, and return again to dance the dance of death.As they did in Peshawar airport on Saturday night. Like shadows in the dark of ...
When you are living in the most dangerous country in the world, you should be wary of your favourite adjectives. But then a journalist without an arsenal of lethal adjectives is like a Taliban ...
Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke. But that is exactly what the government is trying to do with the Higher Education Commission (HEC). Here’s what has happened: HEC is an autonomous ...
The FIA sent a notice to former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Then all hell broke loose. In the end, Gilani got the President to visit him personally in Multan. And FIA got egg on its face.Here ...
Trust us to miss the forest for the trees. The Supreme Court decision on the Asghar Khan case and the ensuing statements from the army and judicial chiefs have unleashed a firestorm in the country ...
If you are waiting for a new and improved Pakistan, don’t hold your breath.For those among us who say the upcoming elections are a turning point in our short history, I say baloney. Better to ...
I could not capture the Pakistani imagination, so I captured the Pakistani State. And I love it.See, here I can have my cake and eat it too. If I don’t get the cake, the cake-maker gets to eat ...
Dear Mr Khan,When people say you are a breath of fresh air in the suffocating Pakistani political environment, I do not disagree. When people say you can smash the moth-eaten status quo in this ...
Let’s get some things straight.Will Imran Khan peace march to South Waziristan, which ended in Tank, succeed in stopping drone attacks? No.Will the march bring immense relief to the victims of ...
Akhtar Mengal is wrong. Divorcing Balochistan is not an option.
But Akhtar Mengal is right. Things remaining as they are, is not an option either.
There is an urgent need to recognise the gravity of ...
We’ve got guided missiles and misguided leadership. It is Friday September 21, 2012. Pakistan is burning. There’s mayhem on the roads of major cities. The air is polluted with tear gas ...
Some lines are not meant to be crossed. If they are, pain ensues.US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman huddled with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Rawalpindi this weekend. He ...
Raisani should resign. And that’s a start. He goes by the title of the Chief Minister of Balochistan. But in reality, there is no Chief Minister in Balochistan. In fact, there is no one really ...
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities’ rights.” – Ayn RandWhen courage is lost, all is ...
“Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...
We got sunk in swimming, run down in running, shot down in shooting and hammered in hockey. This then is the long and short of Pakistan’s Olympic dreams.So what else is new?For us, London 2012 ...
Khawaja Asif is an honourable man who has done a very dishonourable deed. Desperate measures in desperate times by desperate men usually end up badly. This is what has happened to the blistering but ...
When elephants fight, the grass always gets trampled. Well, almost always.The fight between the Supreme Court and the government seems like a fight without end. The term “fight”, however, ...
KABUL – Fahd Husain - The young man took a deep swig from the Red Bull can, his eyes never leaving the road. With his left hand, he expertly swerved the steering wheel left and right as the ...
"Elections are bought, not fought.” So says a politician currently occupying a high office. If that be true, buckle up for an electoral season brimming with cold cash and warm smiles. The ...
Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 15, 2013, 6:10 pmUK police to take action on Altaf's speech: Thomson
May 16, 2013PTI-led KPK coalition govt worked out
May 20, 2013, 12:14 pmPTI will hold protest demo in Karachi on Monday: Imran
May 19, 2013, 7:37 pmAltaf Hussain slams PTI leader's murder
May 15, 2013Nawaz lays healing hand on Imran
May 16, 2013Altaf’s speech on Scotland Yard’s radar
