Ignoring the enemy within
Ehsanullah Ehsan deserves no clemency
Is a self-confessed murderer being pardoned by the state just because he claimed to have worked for foreign intelligence agencies?...
Revenge of the court
How it unfolds
With the assumption of a discredited prime minister through the JIT, the chances of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz taking any hits in terms...
Time to amend the blasphemy law
Of inaction and misplaced priorities
"Nisar needs to stop paying attention to non-issues and work on forming a plan to deal with the growing intolerance...
Politics of agitation and ouster of the PM
Imran refuses to become bedfellows with Zardari
“Our party has been fighting against the monster of corruption for more than two decades and the roots...
In conversation with Muhammad Amir Rana: Not the best way to handle Ehsanullah
NAP has been a failure
This is a propaganda war, the better way was just to release the news that he has surrendered or been...
Of ideology, music and nostalgia: Review of a trio of books with a range...
Of ideology, music and nostalgia
‘Being a committed ideologue, the author has his own untampered views that he has painstakingly condensed in the work, visualizing...
Is there a minus-N formula for PML-N?
Just-in-time; JIT
With the general elections right round the corner due to be held in 2018, the apex court’s decision to form a JIT to...
The need to introduce ‘safeguards’ in the blasphemy law
Part of the solution or part of the problem?
The students who lynched Mashal Khan are not the only criminals, but those in power who...
Crisis in the Korean Peninsula
Gathering storm?
Before Trump, the policy makers in the White House relied on sanctions and threats which were perceived as “rational” to knock some sense...
Energy shortfall – the next big thing
An unfulfilled promise
Claims and promises to deal with the power crisis have remained a dominating element in the election campaign of any political party...
Panama verdict and parties’ media strategy
Media has become the driving force of society
Despite a split 3-2 verdict by a five-member Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa,...
In conversation with SM Zafar: “Minus-one movement against PM is on the cards”
Doubts have cropped up in people’s minds
No clean chit has been given to PM Nawaz Sharif and his two sons. It will adversely affect...
Heera Singh’s Mandi
Then and now
A market of food stuff that was set up by Heera Singh became known as Heera Mandi, contrary to the common perception...
This week in heritage: Akbari Mandi
And the famous spice trade
This largest spice market of Asia is right here inside the Walled City of Lahore. As you reach Delhi Gate,...
The results are as ironclad as they’re going to get
Did India get the memo?
There are – despite the general opinion when it comes to judicial decisions and the penal code – laws in...
‘India got the shock of its life’: In conversation with Gen (r) Amjad Shoaib
International community is embracing Pakistan
The brutal state terrorism in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) has further exposed the designs of the regime and India is...
Woes of the PPP’s legacy
And what is to follow
In PPP’s case, what needs to be deciphered is the party’s growing political isolation and in this regard the available...
