Promise in the current chaos on September 15, 2014Pakistan is being swept away by a nasty flood not experienced in the Chenab for over three decades. The raging waters have wreaked havoc in the areas they have passed and are expected to inflict heavy devastation on property, infrastructure and standing crops further south in the country before the unharnessed water flows into the […]
Towards a permanent dharna for democracy on September 15, 2014The month-long protests in the heart of Islamabad against Nawaz Sharif’s government, monopolising media attention, seem to be teetering towards an anticlimax, notwithstanding continued efforts to keep them going. Barring the dropping of the proverbial ‘other shoe’ that some are still hoping for and others nervously apprehensive of, the protests may end soon or defuse […]