The author, a former civil servant, is a political analyst, and a song writer. He can be reached at Arshed.Bhatti@gmail.com
The Iran nuclear deal has four lessons for us, and countries like us
What do Pakistan’s main political parties have to survive the test of time?
In the last 60 years, lack of accountability and hence reforms of key institutions have caused a rot. One way out is to increase the role of society...
Civil society is the breathing space that a society with conscience and heart confers upon itself
A closer look at the visions presented by our visionaries from time to time shows how this has remained an exercise in futility
When in a country symbols of hatred outnumber the symbols of bonding, know there is something wrong. And we are at that precise point
Pakistan needs to move beyond Police Order 2002 and adopt a more imaginative approach
What happens if each Pakistani woman under the poverty line is allocated 15 to 20 trees as her ‘future property’
Good governance, roadmap, access to justice, poverty alleviation, stakeholders…
At NCA’s film department’s thesis show last week, one felt as if NCA was quietly sowing the seeds of cinema’s revival in Pakistan
A more nuanced understanding of what makes some of us thinkers and others believers can help us comprehend the shifty and contentious debate of...
The sooner we learn to talk, tell, and negotiate in political language, and stop the habit of reaching to guns at every poke, the better it will be
What may make 2015 a year different for Pakistan?
Unless the nameless and faceless citizens voluntarily become the eyes and ears of the intelligence brain, real and timely intelligence won’t...
The elite capture is reinforced through inter-elite legalised awards and transactions, which impact the masses far more negatively than petty...
Food for thought on how to use politics to build the state and invest in society to form a plural, prosperous, inclusive and stable Pakistan
The cycle of betrayal, broken promises, and of producing more powerless by the powerful is not likely to end till the social equaliser of education...
When common sense is fleeing from a society, it is time to invoke humour. But how does humour function and fare in the times of hatred?
Aqil Shah of Dartmouth College discusses the civil-military relations in the context of his recent book
Labyrinthine periods that impeded democratisation, economic progress and societal cohesion
