The morning afterThe new government-in-the-offing (NGIO) faces four major challenges, along with numerous minor ones. The first of these four challenges is the economy. The second concerns war-like situations on the L...
Who will be the final victor?It is just past 8pm in Pakistan on July 25, 2018. Today Pakistan has had its third consecutive election after the completion of two full parliamentary terms. The simple fact that this election was abl...
Political stability is neededSir: Now that the elections are over and done with, one strongly hopes that the political instability that has rocked this unfortunate country for the past three or four years will finally come to an...
Astrological predictionsSir: Some TV channels have been dishing out astrological predictions about the general elections. Some have been predicting the fate of certain specific politicians, some of whom may or may not be inc...
Pre-election pledgesSir: A common man’s question pertaining to the general elections is simple and easy to comprehend: whether the newly-elected leaders commit to the pre-election pledges or will those promises made to t...
Seizing repeater gunsSir: This refers to the recent news that the Customs authorities had successfully seized a large quantity of arms from a truck which was supposed to be carrying fresh vegetables and steel scrap at the...
Injustice in Baloch studentsSir: Back in 2012, the former Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr. Shahbaz Sharif, made an announcement in order to inform the public that the University of Punjab in Lahore would henceforth reserve 100 seat...
Beef eaters are sinners?Sir: India is constitutionally supposed to be a secular state. Yet senior leaders of Prime Minister Modi’s Bharatya Janata Party, especially their militant wing, Rashtraya Swayem Sevak Sangh,have made...
ZA Bhutto and his contradictionsThe young debonair foreign minister would often come to visit the club house that lay across the street from our house in the Barrage Colony in Sukkur. One day my class at St. Mary’s was marched to th...
Lessons in political stabilityBy this morning, Pakistanis should know what lies ahead. Irrespective of who forms the government and whether it will be a majority government or a coalition, the new government will have to face phen...
The curious case of Justice Shaukat Aziz SiddiquiThe election is over. Currently, better minds than mine are commenting on it. Hence it would probably be best if I wrote about another matter. I am a proud former soldier. But, I am not among those wh...