Trajectories of confrontation and consensus on April 15, 2016Two of the largest parties of Pakistan — the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — have troubleshooters who spare no time and effort to fire salvos at each other. The configuration is simple: talk at each other instead of talking to each other. This drives people to think that both […]
Mr Ashraf sacrifice for the sake of his party boss, on July 1, 2012The Supreme Court (SC) verdict came like a bombshell for the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani. In fact, the verdict was not anticipated given the barrage of allegations coming out of the fraud involving the Chief Justice’s son Dr Arsalan Chaudhry. At the most, it was guessed that […]
Let us compare with India on June 24, 2012Our home is at trouble with itself, so let us look outside at what is going on and what can change the state of affairs inside. The most accessible and visible outside locale is often the neighbourhood, hence it’s our eastern neighbour, which one has to consider to juxtapose with our own land of the […]