Gul Bukhari
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Imran Khan and the military: Allies today, foes tomorrow?
Pakistan's military, which helped Khan win the election, could one day pose the most serious threat to his premiership. → Read More
What is behind the crackdown on freedom of speech in Pakistan?
The security establishment is trying to push a certain narrative on the Pakistani public ahead of the July 25 elections. → Read More
A new dawn
When you set out to defeat and end up being vanquished, when you use every last ounce of muscle to push things a certain way, but they run away in the opposite direction → Read More
Ahsan Iqbal
Much haze lifted from the political brew in Pakistan on Monday, when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was to present himself in the accountability court for hearing → Read More
Mashal
Where and how to begin? Two and a half years after the APS massacre of teenaged students and the National Action Plan, and much in between, the country was → Read More
Fifty ways to fail
There has been a sustained effort to muzzle dissent and criticism of state policies since social media provided easily amplifiable voices to human rights → Read More
Travel to joy
Though words can never do justice to describing what happened at the PSL Final in Lahore on Sunday, trying to convey what happened and how it felt is most → Read More
RIP National Action Plan
Just in the past couple of weeks I have come across a slew of Punjabi clerics of various sects committing hate speech and incitement to violence in full public → Read More
Who will pay?
So Pakistans public will be made to bear the cost of about three million pounds damages and costs for the case filed by Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman (MSR) of the Jang/ → Read More
The wreck laid bare
Justice Qazi Faez Isas Quetta inquiry report does just that: lays bare the wreck this country is. Apart from the few things he found right and praiseworthy, → Read More
Malice and perfidy
I am just on page 27, and the judgment of Justice Haddon-Cave of the London High Court, in Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman versus ARY NETWORK Fayyaz Ghafoor (Chief → Read More
Popcorn country
Hold on to your popcorn, for the theatre isnt going away. In the wake of the Hamid Khan train wreck post-mortem, nothing is a given: the legal community stands → Read More
Cyrilgate. Obviously
Because writing about anything else would be moronic. Because nothing else happened the entire week. In the entire world. Because nothing else → Read More
War gaming
Uri. Who dunnit? No one knows yet, despite some early hyperbolic evidences. But lets embark on an open-ended analysis. Lets approach it from a motives and → Read More
The immorality of the moral question
A thoroughly analytical and well written opinion piece last week in the Dawn, deconstructing Imran Khans failing strategy vis a vis the PLM-N government and → Read More
Are you even human?
So we are going to mainstream the extremism? Mainstream extremists? Extreme the mainstream? What on earth does the Tehreek-e-Insaf chief mean? And is there a → Read More
The debate will go on
Hamza Abbasis questions to the ulema about whether it is a states business to declare any group of persons as non-Muslim in a television show he hosted, were → Read More
Language, misogyny and violence
Four or five recent events of violence and abuse, and the public reaction to them, merit comment. First, it is amazing how distinctions are being drawn by many → Read More
Of men and matters
There is so much to address this week: the droning of Mullah Mansour; the Interior Ministers statement on the droning of Mullah Mansour, the CII and Maulana → Read More
The charlatan saviour
What a sorry tale the Panama Leaks make: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs government and party tries to land the Supreme Court with an impossibly open ended → Read More