Pakistan is rightly told off, but…
It is audacious and off limits, and importantly it shouldn’t have been an issue for them to be concerned. Specially if, as often claimed, they wanted ‘the relationship’ between the two nations to...
View ArticleTwo Niazis
What is common between the most honoured sports personality in Pakistan and the most disgraced General? They both have Niazi as the last name. The Niazis are Pashtuns living in parts of Afghanistan and...
View ArticlePakistan – hedging democracy with the generals
In the latest development in a series of political upheavals, the so-called democratic government of Pakistan has opted for a head-on collision with its strong military leadership. The ties between the...
View ArticleTime to lookout for our ‘Imran Khan’
I ended my last opinion piece with a wish that democracy would re-emerge and that there would be a way out of the perpetual impasse caused by two-party politics. You may be wondering how? And where...
View ArticleImran Khan: Can he do it?
If you are old enough to remember his cricketing prowess, you would trust the man to deliver you joyous wins, even wins from the precipice of defeat and against mighty opponents. You would be sure that...
View ArticlePakistan election: a test of a ‘third force’
Those of us who long to see the emergence of a ‘third force’ could do worse than to observe the election in Pakistan. The election being held has already proven many analysts wrong. The outcome will...
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