With the recent assassination attempt on Imran Khan, all eyes will be on his political progress and the security situation going forward. Whether or...
Political instability is the central theme not just in Pakistan, but the world over. Former British PM Liz Truss lasted only 45 days. Her aim was to...
Uncertainty continues to reach unprecedented levels. It reigns supreme over calm and predictability, and will continue to do so in the future.The...
The moral decay of Pakistan and the malaise it has created continue to have devastating consequences. Unmoored from principles, the deliberate...
It has been one year since the disastrous withdrawal of US/Nato forces from Afghanistan. As expected, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken the global order. Prices have escalated dramatically, and economies worldwide are struggling to stay...
Watching events unfold over the last few weeks has been painful, primarily because Pakistan’s priorities are all wrong.We are glued to our phones...
A position of tumult and strife is familiar territory. The economy is under severe stress, and many are beginning to fear a Sri Lanka like...
Upon examination, it has become abundantly clear the’ intellectual elite’ are more concerned about defending their narrative rather than looking...
Dark times are familiar territory for Pakistan. Rather than progress and prosperity, instability and regression are Pakistan’s chief residents.Our...
As time goes on, one would expect political narratives to evolve and become more nuanced. In Pakistan, we have witnessed the opposite, a regression...
To say that Pakistan is at a flashpoint could be a massive understatement. The government is being threatened with a no-confidence motion by the...
Criticism of the prime minister continues to mount. That is not uncommon a year before an election. For Imran Khan’s sake, it is important that he...
To say that the world is changing is a truism. The question is: what is it morphing into, and what is the debris it will leave behind? It is not the...
Wonders never cease – and now that they’ve become ceaseless, we are left breathless. There are more wonders per day now than we can get used to....
One thing that I have been telling young people is that the coronavirus has come to stay. So, deal with it. Yes, its intensity will fluctuate, but...
We had all settled down to worry about the so-called mini-budget and the price of everything that matters when tragedy struck in the breakdown of...
I started last week’s article by saying that I am 72 years old. And I proved it to myself today, Wednesday, the day I am meant to submit my...
What I said last week about new colonialism which captures Third World countries is now making itself pretty obvious in Pakistan. It is a new kind...
I am 72 years old and next April I will be 73. So, I have been aware of what’s going on for some 50 years. Part of this awareness is gathering new...
This is the time of year when sadness returns with a vengeance and reflection too. I allude to our painful surrender, loss of half the country and...
When you want to determine the level of civilisation in a society, one of the best yardsticks to measure it is the behaviour of its mobs.Consider...
It is so wretchedly cold in Islamabad that one can get writer’s block! In the present instance, one actually has brain freeze which in turn has...
In Pakistan, we face situations every day that are both funny and tragic at the same time. Nearly all have pathos in them and large parts of them...
A well-deserved scolding. The Supreme Court summoned Prime Minister Imran Khan in the ongoing case on the Army Public School massacre. In 2014,...
Cricket tournaments raise a lot of emotions, both good and bad. There is joy at victory. There is dismay at defeat. And there is indifference over...
It was a classic case of killing the messenger because they didn’t like the message. The messenger was the television sets that belonged to...
Imran Khan is well known for doing a lot of impossible things. He started off as a pretty mediocre bowler and those who saw him play his first test...
Every country needs its heroes, and Pakistan is no exception. If they don’t have one, they manufacture one. But that’s part of human nature.One...
This is actually the name of a newish book by Patrick Buchanan, the American politician and writer who worked for three American presidents. In the...
From crisis to crisis to crisis: what to write? Does one write about the myriad international issues or the equally myriad domestic issues?We have...
Cricket used to be known as a game played by Englishmen and fools in the midday sun, or something like that. It actually came to be played by very...
I am going out on a limb here. I told you last week that the events in Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover were fore planned in tandem with a...
I am surprised by how many people the world over are falling for this US and Western media nonsense that the Taliban thrashed the hell out of...
These days when one sits down to write and wonders what topic to write on, one has no option but to write on Afghanistan.To say that Afghanistan is...
This truly is the age of ignorance. Rarely does one see even a smidgeon of wisdom. It certainly is the best of times for the thief, the robber, the...
The Taliban victory in Afghanistan was an event foretold. Everyone with a modicum of sense was saying that this was inevitable; only they didn’t...
So much is going on in and around Pakistan that it is difficult to choose any one subject on which to write.There is unmitigated anti-Pakistan...
Arif Nizami died -- and the lights went out in my soul. I knew he was very ill, and dangerously so, but still I could never imagine his life coming...
The void I want to talk about is the global ideological void, which is assuming serious proportions. This is why the world seems adrift, searching...
Around a millennium and four hundred years ago, the chieftains of the Quraish in Mecca offered inducements to the Holy Prophet Muhammad to desist...
I’m grateful to my friend Fakir Ayaz for drawing my attention to the famous saying of Andre Gide that, “Everything that needs to be said has...
I am using this title from Charles Dickens’s book. Though I do not claim to be anything like him, this title describes the feelings I and many...
As we all know, or should know, the cornerstone of justice is: all accused will be deemed to be innocent until proved to be guilty in a recognized...
