Hina Butt

The way news of Nawaz Sharif’s return, as yet unconfirmed, has got everybody in the ruling party running from pillar to post and falling all over themselves ought to remind those with slightly longer memories of what they used to say shortly after they were brought to power. Nawaz Sharif would soon be forgotten, they […]

Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher once famously cautioned Benazir Bhutto, herself a political colossus, against what is called the mid-cycle dip in electoral cycles. Governments tend to start on a good note with the hangover of the euphoria from the election lingering for a while. Then, their popularity tends to dip somewhere around the mid-point mark. […]

Let’s get a few facts right, please. It’s everybody’s right to have an opinion about things; especially the things that affect this country and the people that live in it. But something has to be said about the tendency of our ruling elite to muddy debates on crucial matters by indulging in personal attacks and […]

While the PTI and friends continue to wallow in the defeat at the Punjab Cantonment Board’s elections, the PML-N has already embarked on the next phase of its strategy. That’s why supreme leader, Mian Nawaz Sharif, is now interacting with the party’s district-level leadership. Already, he has held video-link meetings with the DG Khan and […]

All you have to do is see how crowds thronged to receive Maryam Nawaz in Daska to know which way people are going to swing the by-election in NA-75. That alone ought to suffice to throw the selected government into a tailspin, which is pretty much what is happening. Yet even if you give the […]

You couldn’t tell from Daily Mail reporter David Rose’s twitter boasts, egged on by the selected prime minister’s team of planted advisors, that the story implicating Shahbaz Sharif and his son in law in corruption, money laundering and embezzlement was sent to press based on evidence that was “pretty limited and based on assumptions,” could […]

Guess who’s left looking embarrassed and silly now that Transparency International (TI) has itself clarified, before the BBC no less, that data used in its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2020 was from 2019 and 2020? Wasn’t it the selected prime minister himself that first said that the report was based on figures from the PML-N […]

It’ a bit rich of the selected prime minister to call for an open hearing of the foreign funding case after bending over backwards for more than six years to first have it not heard at all and then delay it for as long as possible. Perhaps, in the interest of transparency, he can start […]

The proof of the pudding lies in the eating and even now, when I point this out, you can be sure that PTI loyalists will not revert with any solid counter-arguments but only attacks on me, my party and my family. Social media was meant to facilitate political discourse, as indeed it does in many […]

He clearly meant what he said, and said what he meant, and in doing it he thoroughly exposed himself. It’s for a reason, after all, that they say if you don’t have anything good to say about something then don’t say anything at all. Just when you think that the selected prime minister cannot possibly […]