The writer is former executive editor of The News and a senior journalist with Geo TV.
If the recent storm that TLP leaders have created over the acquittal of Aasia Bibi, blasphemy accused, by the Chief Justice Saqib Nisar-led bench,...
Two months into power and the Imran Khan government has already given a new meaning to the term ‘cross purposes’.
For some, it may be too early to suggest immediate course correction to the Imran government. Their standard response to any criticism directed at...
Like a runaway train, the Imran government continues to hurtle down on the trail of policy bloopers across blunder-land. True, the latest one...
Somewhere in this land of ours, there must be a prodigious factory dedicated to manufacturing holy cows. How else do you explain the endless supply...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s press conference was twice the duration of his meeting with the visiting US delegation led by US Secretary...
Last week, while responding to a question regarding news about Washington sharing the transcript of the controversial call between US Secretary of...
The first ten days or more of the Imran government are a lesson in how not to conduct foreign policy – on the hoof, in haste, for publicity, and...
Imran Khan's speech after he was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. ...
There is much focus on the situational curses facing prime-minister-in-waiting Imran Khan, but not enough on his blessings .Indeed issues like a...
The divisive and badly controversial polls 2018 have thrown up a plethora of political trends that will shape the national landscape for decades...
“In order for things to remain the same, everything must change” – Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaHere’s the problem: the winning party, the...
The Elections 2018 are unlikely to be a harbinger of hope and peace. These elections are being held on a terrible bumpy and contested ground. This...
Nawaz Sharif is facing his ultimate moment of truth – a do-or-die situation, of the sort that he has never witnessed in his tumultuous career. But...
The closer we are getting to the monumental event of Election 2018, the dirtier becomes the environment in which these polls are to be held. Even...
Forecasting the winners and losers in the upcoming national and provincial elections is akin to trusting prodigious parrots to pick the team that...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s inexhaustible modern-day reformer, is into doing big things. Some of these are so extraordinary that he calls them...
This country isn’t erupting over the achievements of Kamila Shamsie, the celebrated British-Pakistani author whose seventh novel ‘Home Fire’...
It is possible that many watchers of the country’s political scene may have missed the big inner wave beneath the temporary turbulence that has...
Bow to the truth for its buoyancy. It pops up from strange locations, at odd times, in the weirdest ways possible – to the embarrassment and...
