It is a bit rich of some PTI leaders to question the opposition’s decision of holding a public rally in Islamabad when it already has the required number of lawmakers in its camp to make the no-confidence motion a success. Perhaps, they should put themselves the same question first. Haven’t all of them, including the […]
The Abject Failure of China Visit
If you go by the government’s spin doctors, you’d be forgiven for believing that the prime minister accomplished some sort of miracle during his four-day visit to China, while the fact is that despite all the boasts and raised expectations, all that was achieved was a few photo-ops and nothing more: no tangible programs, no […]
Hiding behind Riyasat-e-Madina
How typical of this prime minister to try and deflect attention from all that is going wrong by taking refuge under the holy banner of Riyasat-e-Madina. Just when people were expecting a sense of direction from him because they are about to be overrun by yet another wave of high inflation stemming from the mini-budget, […]
The Unspeakable Murree Tragedy
The last thing anybody wants right now is to reopen the wounds of the poor souls related to the victims of the terrible, terrible Murree catastrophe. But since government spokespersons have done what they always do whenever they are at a loss for answers, the record needs to be set right; for the sake of […]
Nawaz Sharif Plus
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 […]
The PTI’s Great Fall
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. […]
Some Hard Questions
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 […]
PMLN’s Strategy: The Next Phase
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 […]
Maryam Nawaz brings out PTI’s desperation in Daska
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 […]
Farce they call accountability
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 […]