Tag: DG ISI

The elephant never forgets With the COAS and DG ISI meeting the prime minister together and the latter retracting his statement, the civil-military tensions –...

The times we are enduring If ever a doubt lingered with regard to us having regressed beyond redemption, it should go away with the ongoing...

The truth, the whole truth and anything but the truth We all want to see Mansoor Ejaz ride into the American sunset. But not yet. Reason: Wittingly...

Conciliation, not confrontation After several rounds of near head-on collisions with military institutions, the PPP-led government seems to have finally settled down for its pre-Memogate...

Bygones be not bygones A majority of readers and viewers have a gripe with us analysts who write in the press and speak on the...

Taking credit, avoiding blame It was General Kayani's strong warnings that prevented Nato strikes into Pakistani territory, claims the military. This is a cause for...

Of tensions and extensions The Supreme Court’s direction to the government to submit a written assurance within two weeks that it has no intention of...

But does it appear to be the same? This is Pakistan’s season of justice. And whatever else one may say about the ongoing cat and...

Why defy the SC? The PPP must have realised by now that the MQM and PML(Q) had joined the coalition to share power and not...

An all-too-familiar script The scenario is moving step by step towards the pre-determined denouement. This time the military will not step in directly. The government...

The government’s tribulations It is three fronts that the government faces today. First, the military, whose sabre-rattling, never too subtle at the best of times,...

A long haul to March Going by the prime minister’s somersaults in the last few days, one can only surmise that there “something is rotten...

There is more to it than meets the eye Interesting developments that raise uneasy questions took place before the memo case was filed in the...

What is good for the goose... They might have gone too far, the ANP’s Bushra Gohar and the PML(N)’s Chaudhry Nisar, in demanding the resignation...

The government and the military stand apart When the president left the country amid wild speculation regarding the state of his physical and mental health,...

The ball is now in the Court The tendency among the political class to seek the removal of their rivals from the political scene through...