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NAWAZ Sharif seems to be recovering from the shock of the February election result and asserting himself, perhaps, realising that just as his party...
HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of...
NOTWITHSTANDING its unprecedented public support, the PTI is facing multiple dilemmas. Recent statements by its leaders, including the party’s...
WILL Iran be provoked by Israel or exercise restraint? This is obviously a question that many in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and beyond are...
THE famous six — no less heroic than Enid Blyton’s Famous Five — write a letter which grabs newspaper headlines and becomes the subject of...
THE country is reeling from the round of political engineering initiated towards the middle of the last decade. There seems no limiting the damage it...
AFTER the Feb 8 elections and the events preceding it left Pakistan badly divided, unwelcome developments are taking place which could severely strain...
THEY may be the undisputed leaders of their respective parties and hold the key to their vote banks, but today, both Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have...
BY the time you read these lines Pakistan will have a new president in the person of Asif Ali Zardari, cementing further the status quo resulting from...
AGAINST the backdrop of dark clouds, there have also been hints of a silver lining and these have come in the form of patriarchal Pakistan’s...
SLOWLY but surely the Feb 8 election result is becoming a fait accompli, and the system will move ahead, despite dissatisfaction and protests for some...
HOPES of clarity after the Feb 8 elections have evaporated and a country, perennially in the midst of a crisis, now appears gripped by chaos and in a...
ONE social media user said it was a remarkable victory; it was, after all, almost “a century scored without a bat”; it appeared an...
THREE court verdicts in one week on top of everything else should leave very little doubt in any mind that the ‘reset to 2016’ is being delivered,...
“THE world owes a huge debt of gratitude to the government of South Africa and its legal team,” said London-based former Israeli negotiator Daniel...
IRAN and Pakistan exchanged missiles, presumably fired by drones, aimed at Baloch ‘camps’ either side of the border this week, before quickly...
SOUTH Africa has shown the way to the impotent Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member-countries by taking Israel to the International Court of...
DESPITE constant rumours about the postponement of the general elections slated for Feb 8, there is no logical or legal justification for any such...
AS one New Year’s Eve turns into the next, most people tend to say time flies. Another year gone by quickly, and time does, indeed, seem to fly. But...
THE caretaker government has made a hash of dealing with the Baloch protesters, led by the passionate advocate Mahrang Baloch who is emulating Sammi...
NOW that the Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Feb 8 elections, after the Supreme Court on Friday brushed aside a challenge to...
“If I must die,/ you must live/ to tell my story/ to sell my things/ to buy a piece of cloth/ and some strings,/ (make it white with a long string)/...
A FEW weeks after the ECP announced the date for general elections in the country — settling the issue, one would have thought — speculation has...
THE credibility of global media organisations such as the BBC, CNN, SkyNews and even progressive newspapers such as the UK’s Guardian appears to be...
HAVING returned from a four-year, self-imposed exile, the path to power for PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif may appear paved but it is also true that within...
OUR world is being increasingly defined by governments — from the most powerful to the smallest of minions — which are bereft of empathy and...
THE Gaza ghetto is being obliterated. How else can you describe it, given that 2.2 million Palestinians live squeezed in the narrow Strip in...
NAWAZ Sharif is back and anyone betting against him becoming the next prime minister is likely to lose. Some have already lost after insisting he’d...
THE images on social and mainstream media tell the whole story eloquently, even if the accompanying words of many Western journalists fall short of...
SINCE 2008, UN figures show that some 250 Israelis and over 5,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, which equals a ratio of one Israeli...
PML-N LEADER Nawaz Sharif has announced he is homeward-bound early next week and is likely to arrive in Lahore as planned on Oct 21, triggering...
AFTER the IMF and the World Bank, caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar has also raised the alarm over the state of the economy, as she told a...
IT is difficult to count how many times PML-N leaders from different tiers of the party have flown to London in recent months presumably in business...
THE phrase used to be ‘paralysis by analysis’, when someone was guilty of overanalysing a situation or individual. But even then such an exercise...
IN a country where the Constitution and the rule of law have often amounted to nought, it’s the individuals, and tragically not institutions, who...