Samson Simon Sharaf
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Striking through chaos
For a long time, analysts in Pakistan will discuss the validity of the reference in Supreme Judicial Council against Justice Isa and its timings. Rather than defend → Read More
Pakistan has come
Seven years ago it was 30 October 2011. Like a tsunami moving with angst, force and fury, they swept beyond imaginable in waves of green and red. Bumper to bumper, every → Read More
Significance of March 23
23 March is a significant date in the history of Pakistan. On this day in 1940, the historic convention of All India Muslim League convened to resolve the next day; → Read More
Sharif’s game of thrones
I once wrote that the ‘Panama Pyre’ will keep burning. My contextual argument was then framed on the premise that ultimate ends of justice would be met. But → Read More
The Trump threat
Ten years hence, objective historians will rewrite the chronology of US military blunders. Top of the list will not be the US defeat against Canada in 1812; or → Read More
The push to Nadir
After a hiatus of over four years, the appointment of Khawaja Asif as Pakistans Foreign Minister suddenly brings everything to life. Foreign Ministers quick → Read More
Pakistan’s Bastille
At a time when unprecedented (though long awaited) accountability of the ruling family of Pakistan is reaching its conclusive stage, an apparent polarisation → Read More
Pakistan’s McCarthyism
Throughout its history, Pakistan never moved into a pinching accountability mode. Now it has, with a degree of uncertainty and plenty of hope. Already volume → Read More
Pakistan’s covenant
Tariq Khan, a common Pakistani, made these comments that irked me, Stephan Coveys talk on principle centred leadership posed a question, if you are suffering → Read More
The Panama fizzler
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.- Honor de → Read More
President Trump and Pakistan
There is chatter amongst political circles in USA that the Special Office of the US Envoy to Af-Pak region may soon be closed. Reportedly this and many other → Read More
Ode to Sajjad Ali Shah
Ex-Chief Justice Syed Sajjad Ali Shah passed away this week, may his soul rest in eternal peace. Unlike lateral entrants who form the majority of the Supreme → Read More
Sociology of conflict
Not only wars but conflicts across the entire spectrum are competitive in nature. A modern nation state is a creation of this conflict and can only integrate → Read More
Pakistan: The dependent state Part 1
2016 was a year of mixed achievements. Though theoretically, Pakistan is an independent sovereign democratic state, practically it is tied everywhere with → Read More
The State as Santa
The Immaculate conception of Mother Mary and the miraculous birth of Saint John the Baptist are almost identical texts in the Christian Gospels and Surah e → Read More
Bangladesh: The other side of story
Forty years ago in 1971, on November 14 night in Chittagong, a Pakistani sniper of the Special Service Group, felt he saw a phantom. The Pakistani soldier did → Read More
December 1971 to December 2016
Today is December 3, 2016. On this day, 45 years ago, India openly launched aggression against East Pakistan to finally cut Pakistan to size. This foray now → Read More
The royal rumble
In the course of two days President Erdogan of Turkey visited Pakistan on invitation of the President of Pakistan and addressed the Parliament of for yet → Read More
The lockdown and after
At a stage when Pakistan is fast approaching insolvency, events shaped by Imran Khan convinced the Supreme Court of Pakistan to admit petitions on Panama → Read More
Cantankerous stratagems
Recently I was asked by a research center to speak on Rule of Law to a select group of scholars and academics from all over Pakistan. My biggest challenge was → Read More