‘Pakistan should have helped Saudi’
They have helped us in our hour of need
Yemen has been all the rage in Pakistan since the Saudi request for help. Initially it...
Our ghost wars
Another misadventure in the offing?
First the good news: Iran and world powers (more importantly the US) have agreed on a framework for a nuclear...
Catastrophic manoeuvres
Ill-conceived policy rooted in personal allegiance likely to spell disaster
By all available accounts, Pakistan has gone a fair distance in committing support to Saudi...
Playing with fire
Pakistan needs to play a balancing rather than a partisan role
Pakistan is being pushed into a war with which it has no concern just...
Between a rock and a very hard place
KSA wants to bomb it, Iran wants to defend it
Look around and one place sticks out – the Middle East. Not for its rainbows...
Yemen conflict — Should Pakistan meddle?
Is pleasing Saudi Arab worth the trouble this time?
Pakistan is in an interesting position when it comes to the conflict in Yemen. Being a...
Yemen: Theological master’s war
Pakistan is sending its forces to fight KSA’s war despite the feeble hue and cry of opposition parties
Pakistan does not have the capacity to...
‘Intervention in Yemen is not an option’
An interview with Shafqat Mahmood
We have our own problems to deal with
The Yemen question has stirred up quite a storm inside Pakistan. Nobody expected...
Youhanabad — what has the government done for the people?
Survivors have been forgotten and forsaken
A short while after the Christian community began trying to pick up the pieces after twin suicide attacks on...
‘PML-N might not last the cycle’
The ruling party is chipping away, piece by piece
The PTI has become a complicated animal. It’s clearly a far thing from the party Imran...
‘Frenzied back-scratching’
This commission is tragically obscure
In a game of chess, it sometimes pays to lose a piece if it’ll cost the opponent a bigger one...
The epic ‘muk-muka’
How Nawaz and Imran ended up agreeing
It was none other than Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan who introduced the term ‘muk-muka’ into the...
Finally the judicial commission
Clandestine deals, role of opposition and democracy
For centuries there were Arabian Nights to amuse people. But Pakistanis were lucky to have one thousand and...
The passion behind the ‘trophy hunter’
The passion behind the trophy hunter
As I sit waiting for him to arrive, I look around his office at the immaculate sight of the trophies...
The hanging fields
The state trying to live by creating fear syndrome
“An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life...
Youhanabad Incident
Leadership’s trickledown failure
Two churches, 17 dead and 80 injured. And that was only the beginning. The Youhanabad incident began with an acute failure of...
The irony of Pakistan
A pathetic situation
Grief is what one feels when tragedy occurs. A perverse abandon replaces grief when tragedy becomes a trend.
To understand ourselves, we must...
