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After the exit
Yet another historic turn is about to take place in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban are set to declare their victory in 18 years of war as the US is about to sign an accord with them to withdraw... → Read More
Ramifications of Trump’s U-turn
Lamenting the US role as policeman in Afghanistan for 19 years, the US President desperately sought Pakistan’s help “to extricate ourselves” from what is dubbed as an “unending war”. → Read More
An unviable finance policy
With the ongoing ‘accountability’, the Imran Khan government has also unleashed the tyranny of the IMF’s tougher conditions, breaking the back of the people and whatever life was... → Read More
Beyond Iftar politics
Amid the rising cost of living and continuing turmoil in the financial market, the opposition seems to be fastening its seatbelts in anticipation of a popular reaction against the... → Read More
The reversal of ‘change’
There has been a stunning reversal of the promise of ‘change’ into a nightmare with the free fall of the rupee and the stock market. The regime is on the beaten track of... → Read More
Politics of generational change
Never before had we seen such an exceptional send off to prison by party enthusiasts than the way former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sent this week with love to the politician’s... → Read More
Beyond the blacklisting
At last, after much prolonged resistance, Jaish-e-Mohammed Chief Masood Azhar is included in the international terrorist list after the Chinese withdrew their technical hold on it in exchange for... → Read More
More olive branches
Regardless of the opposition’s unjustified screaming over what they had tried to do and failed, Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke the truth about cross-border terrorism and how to mutually... → Read More
Living on apologies and U-turns
The transition from a populist crusader to a pragmatic mundane routine job ends up exposing the real face of a rightwing regime tuned to the imperatives of Big Business and a warrior state surviving... → Read More
Ayub Khan’s authoritarian ‘development’ model
To the embarrassment of the nation’s intelligence, we see that Prime Minister Imran Khan, Finance Minister Asad Umar and batteries of trolls on social media greatly admire Field Marshal... → Read More
Tsunami of stagflation
It’s a bloody tsunami of stagflation – a lethal combination of hyperinflation and economic stagnation. The prospects of economic revival are doomed for at least three years with... → Read More
Tackling terrorism
Bilawal Bhutto, otherwise seen as hawkish on India, seems to have attracted the accusation of subscribing to the ‘Indian narrative’ because of his demand to the government to go tough on... → Read More
Retreating from the brink
And we are back from the brink after an unprecedented clash and counter-clash in the air and on the borders. After the decision to release a captured Indian pilot and a fresh sweep against... → Read More
Better sense prevailed
After a round of saber-rattling, Prime Minister Imran Khan moved swiftly to preempt escalation by announcing the release of captured Indian pilot Wing Cdr Abhinandan. Reportedly, this was conveyed... → Read More
A royal visit
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s royal visit showered immense benevolence on Pakistan as Iran and India flayed Islamabad over attacks in their countries.What made the... → Read More
The Seraiki province
We now have an elaborate bureaucratic setup as ‘champions of change’ in Punjab, as provincial autonomy comes under increasing attack. The promise to create ‘South Punjab’ in... → Read More
A period of restraint
Although there is prima facie ground for suo-motu intervention by the superior judiciary in the Sahiwal extrajudicial killing, Pakistan’s new Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has kept his... → Read More
Ensuring Afghan peace
Pakistan has intensified its pressure on the Taliban to talk to the Afghan government. There were also reports that a senior Afghan Taliban leader had been arrested ahead of the visit of US Special... → Read More
Federalism and nation-building
Federalism is again under attack with a persistent campaign against the 18th Amendment or via irresponsible talk about the imposition of Governor’s Rule in Sindh.Already three provinces are... → Read More
Time for a new leadership?
Regardless of the merits of the cases against the leaders of the opposition or whether there is ‘selective accountability’ going on in the country, almost the entire leadership of the... → Read More