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Shahzad Chaudhry

Shahzad Chaudhry

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The age of calibrated wars

What is keeping Russia from overrunning Ukraine? It has the numbers and the wherewithal, and it has now been in a conventional, old-style war with...

yesterday 40

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In search of stability

Order is the first form of stability. We have been in a state of disorder for over two years. These two years have given us four governments, the last...

05.04.2024 60

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Trading with the enemy

Recent commentary by international experts suggests that the world has changed inalterably on three counts, almost to the level of revolutions —...

29.03.2024 40

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What don’t our politicos get?

A lot. But here is a bit as a starter. All the provincial governments are in and some of the cabinets are in place, but the first order of business...

15.03.2024 30

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The way ahead

The famous poet Anwar Masood is a proud son of the soil from my beloved Gujrat. His Punjabi poetry carries the typical chasteness of the dialect that...

08.03.2024 10

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A stuttering democracy

T hat is who we are. A split mandate, and we get stagnated again. We don’t know how to move beyond it or resolve this possible consequence in a...

23.02.2024 40

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People’s election

There is just so much to celebrate at the end of the recent elections. One, these were held. We are known to have fallen back on unconstitutional ways...

16.02.2024 30

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Elections: consolidative, restorative or transformative?

O ne can easily pin a major party to each of the above consequences as Pakistan enters its most crucial electoral exercise in the next week. It is...

02.02.2024 20

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Iran’s attack: stratagem or silliness?

A nyone in their sane mind in Iran would have had to be on a stratospheric high to put to test a managed border. Borders are either hostile or...

26.01.2024 70

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It’s the people, stupid

P arliamentary democracy of the Westminster model, if not democracy per se, hasn’t thrived despite its institution and practice since the country...

19.01.2024 80

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2023 — lessons

W e barely survived a default. The economy almost tanked and then with significant external help has only kept intact. Pakistan’s state structure,...

29.12.2023 50

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How predictable are the next elections?

N ow that the matter is settled in the courts and the Election Commission has announced a schedule it is all guns go on 8th February for elections to...

22.12.2023 50

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A case for a unity government

N ot the PDM type but a real one which includes all parties elected to the National Assembly including the PTI. The government which will include the...

15.12.2023 20

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When demons hold you back

T here are demons that possess the long memory and then there are the recent ones, more alive and scarier, that can ruin the mind and dictate an...

01.12.2023 50

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The Afghan imbroglio

We have let this build on till we found ourselves immersed neck-deep in a self-created mess without a neat way out. Wages of misconception? Or sins of...

24.11.2023 90

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Pakistan’s political predicament

There are a few givens that must be considered as we struggle through a difficult phase of regaining political normalcy as a state. Politics has...

10.11.2023 30

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In search of options in Gaza

Meanwhile innocent blood flows freely without intervention to stop the massacre. Middle Eastern history may be replete with such ruthlessness and...

03.11.2023 40

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Method to the madness in Gaza

Hamas missed the commemorative day of the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Arab states and Israel only by a few hours. October 6th stands out as a...

20.10.2023 20

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Balance of power

Mercury is a solid that is perhaps the thickest of liquids. It makes it one of the most viscous. There are others like honey and oil which are truly...

13.10.2023 60

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Minus one or none

D oes it really matter? We are in the dumps and up is the only way out. Unless we start digging. Anyone, interim or mandated, selected or elected,...

29.09.2023 20

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Is Pakistan ungovernable?

We normally tend to attribute failure to ineptitude and incompetence or a lack of will and purpose. Mostly, a failure will include some or all these...

22.09.2023 200

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Economy’s four ticking bombs

Pakistan’s economy literally rests on four simmering volcanoes. We have been criminally oblivious of those even as we assumed that the visible...

08.09.2023 50

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