Friday, May 17, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. The verdict of the election has been variously interpreted. It has been read as the triumph of old politics, as reassertion of tradition ...

Saturday, May 11, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
• The political landscape has changed significantly – and so have the contestants. For over a quarter of a century, the national contest has been between two major parties and the vote has mostly been divided for and against the ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. The violent run-up to the May 11 election is another urgent reminder of the need to evolve a comprehensive national security strategy. ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. This general election is unlike any in the recent past. With just ten days to go the outcome is still hard to call. A number of unknowns ...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. The most significant insight in Vali Nasr’s new book about President Obama’s foreign policy making is how domestic politics took primacy ...

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. While the economy continuous to slide to the edge of the precipice no economic leadership is in evidence to carefully manage this ...

Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. What is being billed as Pakistan’s ‘youth election’ will take place in the midst of an unprecedented level of pessimism among young ...

Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. Election activity has swung into high gear with huge rallies addressed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan and the ...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. Recent years have seen a profusion of Track II meetings between former officials and scholars from Pakistan and India aimed at finding ...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is special adviser to the Jang Group/Geo and a former envoy to the US and the UK. What is to be made of President Hamid Karzai’s public admonishment of the United States in his recent statements? These assertions marred ...