Burnt bridges
It has often been said that in order to rule Pakistan, one needs Allah, America and the army on your side. While it is impossible for mere mortals like myself to gauge whose side Allah is on, Imran Khan seems to have rubbed both...
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November 17, 2022
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Judicialisation of everything
“In Heaven, there will be no law, and the lion will lie down with the lamb. … In Hell, there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed”.— Grant Gilmore THE request for the formation of a f...
Reducing climate costs
Pakistan is among the countries most vulnerable to climate disaster but least prepared to cope with it. Other factors aside, the economic cost of climatic changes have begun to destabilise and shrink the economy, adversely affec...
Toshakhana mystery
The claims by a Dubai-based Pakistani businessman that he is the one who had purchased a very expensive wristwatch and other articles, gifted to former prime minister Imran Khan by the Saudi crown prince in 2018, against a payme...
Wazirabad JIT
Something is rotten in the state of Punjab. We have been treated with a litany of allegations and counter-allegations in the two weeks since a would-be assassin pulled a gun on former prime minister Imran Khan; yet, there contin...
Seeking climate justice?
The proponents of Pakistan’s search for climate justice must visit an impressive case of the last century that prompted a global change of hearts and minds and led to the dismantling of apartheid – considered a remote possib...
India’s intentions for AJK and GB
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made a bizarre statement recently in Srinagar regarding Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan, saying that India’s northward journey of development would be complete after regaining...
Political realities, social cultures
For most of those who live in today’s Pakistan – the country made up primarily of young people as well as the very young – the era of Gen Ziaul Haq and all that came with it is essentially something confined to textbooks a...
Life under the Taliban
Afghan women are facing more and more restrictions as the Taliban tighten their hold on a country which seems to be spiraling towards disaster. This comes right after Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada recently introdu...
Toshakhana tales
Former prime minister Imran Khan’s untarnished image has been a little under the weather recently — what with the prohibited funding case and the Toshakhana reference both alleging some unsavoury practices by the PTI and its...