Ayesha Siddiqa

Ayesha Siddiqa

  • A change unnoticed

    The United Kingdom just experienced an historic change in the form of electing its first non-white and non-Christian prime minister. Rishi Sunak is...

  • Securing the nation – promises vs reality

    The Imran Khan government in its last year has announced its national security policy . The paper lays out the country’s grand strategy, which...

  • What is the UK-Pakistan relationship?

    What is the UK-Pakistan relationship?

    UK-Pakistan ties are located in a fairly narrow band of diplomacy and military relations.

  • The politician versus the bureaucracy

    Punjab chief minister’s advisor on information Firdous Ashiq Awan’s recent public altercation with the assistant commissioner of Sialkot has...

  • How not to do anti-corruption

    In Pakistan, where breaking news has a life of about two and a half days, the Broadsheet story and the company’s CEO Kaveh Moussavi seem to have...

  • Remembering Fasih Bokhari

    If they still made men like that, one would certainly want to see more like the later Admiral Fasih Bokhari. The former naval chief lost his battle...

  • The myth of the ‘commoners’

    The myth of the ‘commoners’

    Civil Services Academy of Pakistan.A recently published article in these pages on June 20, by a civil servant Khurshid Ahmed Khan Marwat, reminded...

  • Why Pakistan won’t be recognising Israel anytime soon

    Why Pakistan won’t be recognising Israel anytime soon

    The flirtation with the idea of Pakistan's formal diplomatic relations with Israel may continue, but the present government in Islamabad lacks the...

  • An unending trial

    In the past few days I have been targeted on Pakistani, media especially on social media. Countless tweets, blogs, Facebook posts and even a...