The author is a political analyst and media development specialist. He can be reached at adrehmat@gmail.com.
It is not just two cities in one, it’s many really, with its uneasy parallel pasts still haunting its present
Perhaps the biggest failure of political parties in Pakistan is their collective inability to galvanize new people from different classes to join...
Are the extreme-right religious groups effecting an insidious competition among the mainstream political actors to become more religious than they...
Media’s imagined or real power notwithstanding, Pakistan cannot be perceived as a soft power without actually being one
The Jadhav family reunion exposed the true nature of the moment for what it really was: a real-time media event to conduct propaganda and a security...
It’s not what’s wrong with the media but rather what’s wrong with the state’s contradictory policies that require an examination and...
What is important is not just the high number of attacks and casualty rates of journalists and social media practitioners killed, injured,...
It is the oft-shifting stances and performance on key issues in Pakistan’s treacherous political landscape that define PPP’s legacy
Romania offers a mix of the ancient and the jazzy new, kitschy aesthetics, the world’s largest civilian building, and of course, the oft-cited...
Parenthood -- part of the grand adventure of life
It is perhaps difficult to make out who is more to blame for allowing the region to fail itself -- Pakistan or India
Nawaz Sharif is the closest that comes to a political survivor in Pakistan even though it may not quite seem that way right now
A high-standard, non-discriminatory accountability law that brings all pillars of the state under its net should be the starting point
As the country creeps towards the next election next year, a historical lack of confidence in procedural democracy is back to haunt Pakistan again
Iceland, the country of northern lights is magical; it makes the heart melt
Recent political changes are likely to shape up a new playbook that will determine a newer national political course in the run up to elections next...
The project of militarised nation building that has been edging out politics continues. The ‘Dawn Leaks’ controversy defines this reality neatly
The romance of the Lawyers’ Movement soured not too late after Chaudhry was back in the saddle
Will the case against Bol TV by Pemra in the Supreme Court settle how to treat hate speech inciting violence as well as allow dissent that doesn’t...
Social media in Pakistani digital spaces, is the new mainstream media for the purposes of enforcement of offline regimen of national security...
