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Thursday October 05, 2023
Asha’ar Rehman
Asha’ar Rehman

  • September 23, 2023

    In the interest of…

    The last time Mian Nawaz Sharif set forth towards Pakistan, his younger brother started going in circles at a safe distance from Lahore’s Allama...

  • September 16, 2023

    Stable options

    Cleaning the political stables for posterity is the buzzword that has echoed through the history of this country, every regime here quickly finding...

  • September 09, 2023

    Obituaries of haste

    Heath Streak was a fine Zimbabwean cricketer who died young recently after completing 50 years in this transitory world. In a macabre reflection of...

  • September 02, 2023

    Energy, power, revolution

    The past few days have been spent by repeatedly going over three questions that may appear to be not linked to each other. The first of them came...

  • August 26, 2023

    Age of self-loathing

    Through successive periods of extreme frustration in recent decades, Pakistanis were told that it was alright for them to experience depression –...

  • August 19, 2023

    Boys from our neighbourhood

    There is no bigger fear than the fear of being led by your contemporaries. Perhaps this feeling is peculiar to your upbringing in Pakistan. Perhaps...

  • August 12, 2023

    End of acrimony

    To the credit of the very congenial-looking Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari , he is trying to overcome the emptiness of the present by building the most...

  • August 05, 2023

    A happy gathering

    The refrain about a supposedly impending parting of ways between the PML-N and the PPP has been a part of the recent Pakistani political discourse...

  • July 22, 2023

    Looking for poll clues

    Pakistan needs to fast start throwing up signs to convince everyone around that a general election in the country is imminent. Right now, things are...

  • July 15, 2023

    Resume of a doer

    PML-N's sympathizers spent all of Thursday – July 13 – on social media reminding us about a most significant event in the party’s...