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Learn from history
It was a harsh winter, like winters in Russia are. The mighty advancing army was not only unaccustomed but also ill-equipped to...
‘We have not lost the initiative’
INTERVIEW: ASAD UMAR
The PTI’s brain explains the party’s position
The azadi dharna has definitely outlasted all non-PTI predictions. And it was not without its ups...
Crisis in Pakistan
It is all about the hair, and incompetence
Just when it seemed that negotiations might bring about an end to the political crisis that has...
White Lies
That there is no love lost between Aitzaz Ahsan and Ch Nisar is hardly breaking news. But word has it that the friction goes...
Yesterday’s Karachi is today’s Lahore and Islamabad
No one noticed, but there has been a huge conspiracy going on against Lahore and Islamabad
People may not have paid much attention, but of...
Quotable quotes from the ongoing political crisis II
The top 10 quotes of the week, straight from the horse’s mouth, again
After the overwhelming, and imaginary, success of last week’s column we realised...
Okay, I did not sign up for this: Nawaz Sharif
Special Correspondent - Islamabad: “Okay, I did not sign up for this,” said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Dr Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in the late hours of...
White Lies
The N boys find themselves in quite a pickle these days. And their own actions haven’t helped. Take the ingenious idea of reaching out...
The last act
To save their illicit personal empires, quite literally their lives, the Sharifs begging for a bail-out by the military that they so methodically, so...
The thin end of the wedge
Seeking the removal of the PM at the instance of a few thousand protestors makes no legal sense
The army is once more at the...
A shrewd maneuver turns into a humiliating surrender
Nawaz Sharif’s comedy of errors continues
The elephant in the room has been sighted. For years, the military establishment’s indirect involvement in the politics of...
Save democracy, constitution
In the name of democracy, public service and governance has suffered
The two dharnas with all their dramas have generated a deep division in the...
Army should disengage from dialogue process
INTERVIEW: Muhammad Ali Durrani
Those dragging the military into the political deadlock are not its friends
Senator (retd) Muhammad Ali Durrani has served as the country's...
Who will solve the current political crisis?
PTI’s Crow Movement and other updates
It seems like the capital is going to run short of crows in the coming days as PTI followers...
Quotable quotes from the ongoing political crisis
The top 10 quotes of the fortnight, straight from the horse’s mouth
With all eyes, ears and mouths being attached to the ongoing political matchup...
