On cherry picking

Where Zarb-e-Azb might be headed, and what it will counter   “Terrorism cannot be eliminated without intelligence-based operations throughout the country – particularly in Southern Punjab...

Beginning of the end of militancy?

About time we dealt with our Frankenstein     The war was never going to be easy. And terrorists were going to react sooner or later. The blowback...

White Lies

  So Tahirul Qadri was finally persuaded to take a leaf out of Imran Khan’s book and spend some time with his followers. Get out...

Interview: Asif Ali Zardari

We did it for democracy! Zardari sb reveals the secret behind his success Pakistan Today’s editor, Arif Nizami, interviewed former President Asif Ali Zardari on a...

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Lessons from Scotland

What Scotland voting No to independence means for the world   So the Scotts said No to independence (how crazy are they!) from the United Kingdom....

Altaf bhai doesn’t rig, he’s a sweetheart: Imran Khan

Altaf Bhai Correspondent Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, calling Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf bhai a sweetheart has parried away all allegations...

New Pakistan?

More disillusioned, more isolated and poorer The well coordinated and synchronised sit-ins of the great Khan and the Canadian cleric in the heart of Islamabad...

With maximalist-minimalist positions, where’s plan-B?

This logjam can be broken by an honest broker, but who?   When the two irresistible forces called Imran and Qadri met the immovable object called...

On the road to nowhere: Where does the IK and TuQ revolution lead?

Secular and liberal folk have their own stories to tell   The road to change is not an easy one. The current Azadi and Inqilab marches...

A man possessed

Perhaps Imran has been reading too much into his own legend     Imran’s ego was already buoyed up when he decided to take part in May...

Pakistan preps for change

Have the Islamabad sit-ins induced a soft revolution?     It always starts with an idea. A vague, superfluous, far-fetched idea that aims at changing set, ingrained...

Khan may have already won

But the ‘procedure’ requires some finesse   On Aug14, Imran Khan, at the head of hundreds of thousands of supporters, marched on the capital with the...

Interview: Rehman Malik

Way out of this chaos The Jirga can still help make peace between the government and protestors   Q: What is the latest status of your interaction...

White Lies

Contrary to public opinion, and PIA suspending two employees, it turns out that the national carrier was really not to blame for people chucking...

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Two identities and their mutual antagonisms

Hindutva and its fallout on Indian Muslims   The book is a sociological study of the Hindu-Muslim divide in the subcontinent. It is a nuanced investigation...