Hina Butt

You don’t even have to look very far anymore to see how this government is crumbling. There’s a reason that the top job of its henchmen these days is putting the microscope on everything the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) does to try and exploit anything that doesn’t make sense to them about the opposition’s negotiations […]

Sometimes you don’t know whether to disagree with this government or just feel sorry for it. For the gist of all our disagreements with it centred on its inability to govern. In fact, we have long argued that “selecting” it to run the country was like taking a terribly sick patient to the local quack […]

Even from so far away I could understand just why US President-Elect Joe Biden’s recent confirmation as winner of the American presidential election, despite all the legal hurdles put in place by outgoing President Donald Trump, was a seminal moment for not just US but also global democracy. As a member of the American Council […]

The present government seems to have a unique ability to surprise you even when it is doing exactly what you expect it to. Nothing explains this strange tendency better than the lengths it went to in order to do something about the opposition protest movement that was snowballing into Lahore for today’s jalsa. Everybody expected […]

This government learned once again the hard way in Multan, like it does just about everything, that all forms of threats and intimidation are useless when the people decide to take things in their own hands. It shamelessly used the apparatus to do what it could to paralyse the opposition, hurled threats, even arrested scores […]

In accusing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of inciting rebellion in the army, the selected Prime Minister is himself making the country’s respected armed forces controversial. Nawaz Sharif said what he had to say – after duly appreciating the role of all the jawans in our military, especially the greatest ones that laid their lives […]