N’s cup of tea
Peshawar killed a part of Pakistan’s soul
There’s usually layer upon layer in such ops, or so the shadow people tell us journos. They should...
The Peshawar outrage
Need to institutionalise policy making
December 16, already a black day in our history because of Indian intervention in what is now Bangladesh but was...
INTERVIEW: ‘Our most dangerous war’: Gen (retd) Hamid Gul
The old spymaster is for preserving the old ‘arrangement’ for Afghanistan
Peshawar changed everything about Pakistan. It remains to be seen, though, whether it will...
White Lies
Mian sb got some good advice despite the sombre backdrop of the APC in Peshawar. His old information minister Mushahid Hussain was there, and...
How to still defend the Taliban
It might be the most difficult thing you do this year, but you can still pull it off
As of this week, defending the Taliban...
Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan overcome political difference to hide each other’s cowardice
Our Staff Reporter
Peshawar: After months of being the respective pain in each other’s backsides Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran...
INTERVIEW: Shah Mehmood Qureshi
‘PTI will accept judgment of independent, authoritative judicial commission’
The case had to be brought to the people’s court.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi is the focal point...
Khan’s Pyrrhic victory
To talk or to swear?
It is quite surreal: dharnas, shutdowns and abuses on one hand and talks on the other. While the ruling party...
When there’s nothing to talk about
N grows weaker
If the talks get deadlocked again, it will at least prove that the prime minister’s resignation was not the only hurdle last...
Dark days ahead?
Should Lahore be bracing itself for a Faisalabad style disaster?
As PTI’s strike unfolds in Karachi the rest of the country is watching to see...
PML-N refuses to learn, PTI raises the stakes
Rebirth of pressure politics in contemporary Pakistan
Driven by an anthropomorphised version of farcical religious political ideology, cultivated in ‘Zia’s nursery’, PML-N is by all...
List of things we can burn to generate electricity
We might finally have the solution to Pakistan’s multi-pronged energy crisis
Pakistan’s energy crisis has reached that point where we are now as a nation...
Karachi didn’t quite feel shut down
Our Dharna Correspondent
Karachi: Despite the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf’s (PTI) revolution embracing the city, Karachi didn’t quite feel shut down, it has emerged. The city, so...
White Lies
It was some party at Rawal Lake last week. Quite the night of the generals. It had much of the top brass and quite...
The Messiah syndrome
Need for a reset
While former dictator and COAS Pervez Musharraf seeks a permanent constitutional role for the army in politics, during the past year...
Finding the clean end of the shit
Stability is the need of the hour
So much is happening in Pakistan that if it doesn’t raise everyone’s passions sky high they have got...
There’s always a plan in Washington
A Pakistan plan, especially
A retired US air force officer working out of Dubai – intelligence work, if you believe his broker – once gave...
