Is China Pakistan’s East India Company?
While everyone is praising the CPEC’s role towards Pakistan’s future growth, no one is asking about the terms that Pakistan has agreed to with...
Of Heritage: Haveli Alif Shah
Long take of sorrow, grief and tolerance
Haveli Alif Shahi is an over three hundred year old heritage house which was converted into an Imam...
Two Mirs and a Maulana
Awkward viewing, Geo’s Khabarnaak was, on the 16th of October. Though the episode had looked good on paper. The guest was Hamid Mir. And...
The assembly line of good looks
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
When Andy Warhol said this, he was probably referring to the news cycles of the...
Media Watch: Are we to line all of them up?
Even those living under a rock would know the Arshad Khan story. It went viral within the country and without, specially across the border (the...
Media Watch: Huge, sequestered tribes
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. When Andy Warhol said this, he was probably referring to the news cycles of...
Peace through trade
Economic interests driving security policy
In the recent times, many countries are using trade as a means of ensuring national security.
Some of the world's...
Media Watch: Editorials and editorial policy
It wasn’t exactly high-brow viewing, Channel 24’s Ikhtilaaf-e-Rai on the 12th of October. Dominated by guest Arif Hameed Bhatti, the show was exactly the...
Media Watch: Sources, on condition of anonymity, said….
The elephant in the room in any media column is the Cyril Almeida story.
Situations like these -- where the media itself becomes the story...
Aasia Bibi case: Justice delayed, justice denied
About time blasphemy law is revisited
This is the horrific story of Aasia Bibi, a Christian labourer and mother of five, who was sentenced to...
The Invisible Hand: Myth or Reality?
Is the government The Big Boss here?
Pakistan remains an immature democracy struggling to retain its distinction from home grown monarchs and dictators. Corruption and...
Measuring democracy
Shifting through the white noise
The IMF recently distanced itself from Pakistan’s ministry of Finance’s much reported celebrations on the basis that IMF had conferred...
Shrouded in mystery
Civil-Military relations in Pakistan are no clearer
“Security and foreign policy is not in the civilian leaders’ control. The very fact that the army, which...
After availing special discount, Ishaq Dar also gets Emerging Markets’ “Sexiest Man Alive” award
Several days after getting Emerging Markets’ “Best Finance Minister of South Asia, 2016” award, finance minister Ishaq Dar has decided to awail the special...
I don’t know this man, clarifies horse
Speaking to reporters while leader of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba Hafiz Saeed was sitting on it, Stylish, a horse who earns his living from...
Why did Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel make victory speech before formal results...
In an explosive press conference, leader of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Imran Khan asked why the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace, Colombian President...
Law enforcement agencies discover MiG-29 fighter squadron from house near Nine-Zero
Law enforcement agencies were in for a surprise when they discovered a squadron of MiG-29s from a house near Nine-Zero in the Federal B...
