US-Saudi endgame?The Americans this week announced that Saudi Arabia will be officially entering the Afghan quagmire. Ostensibly, to aid the US exit by nudging the Taliban closer to the negotiating table. To be sure,...
Looking for Naya PakistanAnother month and another Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activist has been arrested by the state; albeit temporarily. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) picked up Gulalai Ismail at Islamabad airpo...
#MeToo one year onIt has been one year since the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal broke. And this week saw the District Attorney’s office throw out part of the sexual criminal case against the now disgraced Hollywood...
Remembering Ayub Khan-Part IMy last image of President Ayub Khan is of a man standing in his porch in the hot sun waving me goodbye. It was just before he died in 1974, and I had called on him to tell him I was leaving for Engla...
Anomaly: the ‘suomoto’ jurisdiction IIFifthly, it's in the realm of politics and political affairs that the invocation of 'suomoto' jurisdiction by the apex court is most egregious. The saga of 'Panama' related cases that stemmed from the...