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Shahzad ChaudhryThe News International |
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...
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...
Recent commentary by international experts suggests that the world has changed inalterably on three counts, almost to the level of revolutions —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
P arliamentary democracy of the Westminster model, if not democracy per se, hasn’t thrived despite its institution and practice since the country...
W e barely survived a default. The economy almost tanked and then with significant external help has only kept intact. Pakistan’s state structure,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Meanwhile innocent blood flows freely without intervention to stop the massacre. Middle Eastern history may be replete with such ruthlessness and...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Pakistan’s economy literally rests on four simmering volcanoes. We have been criminally oblivious of those even as we assumed that the visible...