The Institute of Public Policy (IPP), Beaconhouse National University, has brought out its annual report on the economy at a time when the nation was headed to elections. Without any real concern ...
At last, the great exercise in democracy is over and the results are in. There has been a vote for change, but it is almost as if the electorate has opted for a more traditional type of change, ...
There is a clear feeling that the election that will take place tomorrow is a watershed, but what exactly does that watershed consist of? Is it about choosing the right ruler? Or is it also about a ...
The apparently unending series of attacks launched upon election meetings have highlighted a number of unfortunate, but undeniable, facts. First is that they are at all possible. That shows that ...
General (retd) Pervez Musharraf may have fallen from grace, and may have had to undergo arrest. But, perhaps, more damaging is the fact that his arrest, comfortable as it might be, has sent a signal ...
It was an inevitability that letting the outgoing Assembly run to its full term would mean a summer election. Elections are avoided in summer because of the heat, but ever since the Musharraf era ...
The present confrontation between the USA and North Korea is not expected to lead to an actual nuclear exchange, but does represent the first time since the Cold War that any country has threatened ...
The nation is now hurtling towards the polls. Hardly have the caretaker governments come in place, that they are preparing to move out. Though they are governing, attention is not so much on them as ...
While the caretaker Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers have been appointed, moving the country inexorably to the elections, it must be noted that Pakistan’s elections are by no means the only ...
The fumbling over the names of the caretaker Prime Minister and Chief Ministers was not predicted, though it could have been. Apart from the very real desire of the incumbents to have their own ...
While the Badami Bagh tragedy has highlighted the plight of a community more usually ignored, it has also shown the devotion of the ordinary Muslim to the Holy Prophet (pbuh). While there have been ...
The blast in Abbas Town, Karachi, was not unparalleled, though it was a first for Karachi, already a strife-torn city, a dangerous place to live in. If, on the one hand, they provided a reminder of ...
The deadline for the dissolution of the Assembly is fast approaching, for if it does not take place, the National and Provincial Assemblies would all come to the end of their terms. The basic ...
Though the Hazara community’s protest at Saturday’s bomb blast has ended, the very fact that the massacre took place would indicate that it could happen again. That it happened just a ...
The decision of Pope Benedict XIV to resign the papacy is not just the first papal resignation for seven centuries, but also a sign that the oldest sovereignty in the world is moving towards the ...
The parliamentary commission on new provinces was made controversial enough by the fact that it was not consensual, as it did not have the PML-N members attending, but was made more controversial by ...
While the government team negotiating with Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri did not concede any dissolution of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), it did agree to opt for an election ...
The end of Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri’s sit-in in Islamabad has almost inevitably raised the question of who gained, and who lost.Perhaps, the most immediate gainer would be Dr Qadri himself, who ...
It would be interesting to the historian to know exactly when Professor Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri (to give him some, but not all, of his titles) realised that electoral reform is difficult. And what ...
It is, perhaps, symptomatic of the weakness of the regime that Tehrik Minhajul Quran chief Tahirul Qadri’s announcement of a long march on Islamabad should cause enough consternation to make ...
There was much speculation about what would happen at Benazir Bhutto’s fifth death anniversary, the political debut of her son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and an announcement of the date for the ...
On the face of it, there should be no relationship between the appointment of a new Governor for the Punjab, and the rally at Minar-e-Pakistan to welcome Tahirul Qadri. But both events are related to ...
The Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa capital, Peshawar, might well have had its militant problem highlighted this weekend, because of the attack on Peshawar Airport, the gunbattle in Pawaka, and then the Jamrud ...
The remarks by the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, to Saturday’s roll-signing ceremony have not received as much attention as they deserve, because they were ...
The whole question of nationality has once again been highlighted by the expiry of the Election Commission of Pakistan deadline for all members of Parliament or the Provincial Assemblies to submit ...
The series of attacks on Ashura gatherings, which claimed so many victims in Dera Ismail Khan, Karachi and Rawalpindi, also raised questions about the existence of the sectarian divide, and its ...
The images are depressingly familiar: Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression. However, there is a twist. These are Gazans, of whom more than 100 had been killed by Wednesday, the eighth day of the ...
The Supreme Court found that the decision it gave in Asghar Khan’s case provoked deep emotion not just among those affected, but also among the military as a whole. Matters reached the extent ...
One of the inevitable themes of Barack Obama’s re-election was race, given that he was a black, or rather an African-American. However, he was inherently atypical in that he had no slave ...
This past Eid-ul-Azha was, perhaps, as typical as those past. But it was also remarkable for the attention that was paid to Syria and, more specifically, to whether the ceasefire there would hold. It ...
Thursday, 23 May, 2013
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