What was the Foreign Office thinking? Before Nawaz Sharif had even reached the Arab-US summit it was telling everyone that the prime minister would...
The cult of CPEC is getting very stifling. Never before has something that is supposed to be nothing more than an economic agreement become quite so...
Back in the good old days, when Supreme Court justices couldn’t quote long-dead French writers because Wikipedia hadn’t been invented...
As predictable as it is infuriating, Mashal Khan is becoming yesterday’s news. Entertainment and masala always gets better ratings than moral...
Remember Gul Masih? He had a fight with a neighbour in 1991 over something as trivial as repairing a water tap on their street. The neighbour then...
The nationo-chauvinists on our television screens and social media follow the same jumbled playbook whenever someone they dislike is...
The PML-N is acting as if it doesn’t believe it can win the next election. In some ways, it is reminiscent of the PPP when the latter gave up...
Is Husain Haqqani a traitor – as members of the party he used to serve are now having to say? Questioning the patriotism of those who have a...
There is a myth in Pakistan – usually pushed by the political parties themselves – that our national politics is hopelessly divided. All...
Pakistan’s long sporting isolation ended in February when Iran’s tennis team visited Islamabad – the first country to do so in 12...
