The more things change… on August 2, 2018The more things change the more they stay the same. That is perhaps what is happening right now in Pakistan. Imran Khan,an achiever, a global celebrity having star power is in the driving seat. Listen to his victory speech from any perspective you would only hear it promising a sea-change for the better. But wait-a-minute. […]
The morning after on July 26, 2018The 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 Line of Control (LoC) and the Durand Line and a full-fledged on-going war inside the country being waged against the terrorists. The third relates to the […]
A steel fist in a velvet glove on July 19, 2018It has been one long, bitter fight. And it continues. In the very first decade of our independence, the harshest of colonial press laws were employed to suppress us. Since the second decade until up to the late 1980s we were silenced using what was known as the Press and Publication Ordinance. Under this infamous […]
The lady doth protest too much on July 12, 2018At this late hour manifestoes don’t matter. Not even those that promise rivers of milk and honey or the Moon and the stars. Most people who have decided to go out and vote on July 25 seem to have already made up their minds. Performance does play a decisive role in influencing a voter’s final […]
The devil is in the details on July 5, 2018Tomorrow is expected to be an eventful day. But the agony is not going to end with the anticipated guilty verdict. There are two more stages — appeals to the High Court (HC) and then to the Supreme Court (SC) — before the nation could finally draw the curtain on this painful experience. The hearing […]
Election predictions on June 28, 2018It is the job of the media to monitor the trends during an electoral process to keep its readers and viewers abreast on which party or individual is likely to achieve what position on D-Day. The job demands the highest in professionalism and responsibility. Of course, it is not possible to remain objective to the […]
Nisar begins his journey to the unknown on June 21, 2018Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan’s plan ‘A’ has failed. Now he has begun working on plan ‘B’, which he seems to have put together in some haste. The fate of this plan too appears to be no different, because it is also based on the premise that he would once again reach the National Assembly (NA) […]
Five tumultuous years on May 31, 2018A second democratically elected government, this time led by the PMLN, has completed its full five-year term. The first one was led by the PPP-P. Both these governments had remained politically highly unstable during their respective terms,at times conveying the impression that they were living from moment to moment and could collapse any day. That […]
Khalaai Makhlooq in panic? on May 24, 2018Where is the PTI groundswell? It was clearly discernable much before we had entered the 2013 election season. The surge began with the PTI’s October 30, 2011, public rally in Lahore. And it persisted much after the elections were over, lasting perhaps until about a few months after the July 2017 Supreme Court verdict disqualifying […]
Nawaz, the ‘traitor’ on May 17, 2018Some nations produce great thinkers, others great scientists, even others great quantities of food grains. But we as a nation have specialised in producing traitors in great numbers. It has become a favourite pastime of ours. We do it so consistently and so regularly that at least one traitor is born in our midst almost […]