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Armageddon beckons?

IF someone were to say we have moved a step closer to the abyss, one can be certain there’ll be many critics who would accuse that person of...

21.07.2024 100

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SC verdict’s political impact

THE Supreme Court has restored the status of PTI as a political party and ordered the ECP to allocate the reserved seats to it as per its share in the...

14.07.2024 100

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Pressure cooker situation

WITH the social media platform X choked and new disclosures being made in the Islamabad High Court about the level of Big Brother’s intrusive...

07.07.2024 100

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US House move implications

THE day after I arrived in Boston for a family visit, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution by 368-7 votes, asking the Biden...

30.06.2024 90

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Extremism gathering pace

“THANK you, Mr Jinnah”, said one social media user under a video clip post, which went viral. The clip showed a mob comprising Hindu extremists...

23.06.2024 100

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PTI strategy — or the lack of it

AS if on cue, a day after PTI chairman Gohar Khan made public the decision of the party and its founder to initiate a dialogue with political parties...

16.06.2024 60

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Can the Great Wall stop PTI?

WITH the budget round the corner and the IMF-enforced hardship it will inevitably bring for the urban poor and the middle class in particular, the...

09.06.2024 70

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Desperate Biden’s peace deal

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden seems to have put his personal credibility on the line by spelling out what he called a comprehensive three-phase Israeli...

02.06.2024 200

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Curbs can’t beat narratives

WITH the passage of a bill to muzzle criticism of those in high offices, the Punjab Assembly has taken the lead in legislating fresh curbs on free...

26.05.2024 100

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How not to win a Pulitzer

ISRAEL’S destructive military campaign in Gaza, which has so far killed over 35,000 Palestinians, including nearly 14,000 children over the past...

19.05.2024 70

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Who can rock the hybrid boat?

A NUMBER of developments over the past week suggest that the establishment is keen to enforce/ maintain the status quo and the only impediment in its...

12.05.2024 100

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Nawaz Sharif active again

NAWAZ Sharif seems to be recovering from the shock of the February election result and asserting himself, perhaps, realising that just as his party...

05.05.2024 100

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Hybrid pitfalls for PML-N

HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of...

28.04.2024 60

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PTI’s many dilemmas

NOTWITHSTANDING its unprecedented public support, the PTI is facing multiple dilemmas. Recent statements by its leaders, including the party’s...

21.04.2024 100

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Will Iran react to Israel?

WILL Iran be provoked by Israel or exercise restraint? This is obviously a question that many in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and beyond are...

14.04.2024 200

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Adventures of the famous six

THE famous six — no less heroic than Enid Blyton’s Famous Five — write a letter which grabs newspaper headlines and becomes the subject of...

07.04.2024 70

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Who to blame for the mess?

THE country is reeling from the round of political engineering initiated towards the middle of the last decade. There seems no limiting the damage it...

31.03.2024 100

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Stay off the Irsa minefield

AFTER the Feb 8 elections and the events preceding it left Pakistan badly divided, unwelcome developments are taking place which could severely strain...

24.03.2024 100

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Sailing in the same boat

THEY may be the undisputed leaders of their respective parties and hold the key to their vote banks, but today, both Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have...

17.03.2024 80

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PTI and the art of the possible

BY the time you read these lines Pakistan will have a new president in the person of Asif Ali Zardari, cementing further the status quo resulting from...

10.03.2024 80

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Women define leadership

AGAINST the backdrop of dark clouds, there have also been hints of a silver lining and these have come in the form of patriarchal Pakistan’s...

03.03.2024 100

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Route to political longevity

SLOWLY but surely the Feb 8 election result is becoming a fait accompli, and the system will move ahead, despite dissatisfaction and protests for some...

25.02.2024 70

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Controlled chaos? Think not

HOPES of clarity after the Feb 8 elections have evaporated and a country, perennially in the midst of a crisis, now appears gripped by chaos and in a...

18.02.2024 100

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Almost a century, with no bat

ONE social media user said it was a remarkable victory; it was, after all, almost “a century scored without a bat”; it appeared an...

11.02.2024 100

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Turning back the clock

THREE court verdicts in one week on top of everything else should leave very little doubt in any mind that the ‘reset to 2016’ is being delivered,...

04.02.2024 60

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Israel loses victimhood mantle

“THE world owes a huge debt of gratitude to the government of South Africa and its legal team,” said London-based former Israeli negotiator Daniel...

28.01.2024 100

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Missiles no threat to polls, but...

IRAN and Pakistan exchanged missiles, presumably fired by drones, aimed at Baloch ‘camps’ either side of the border this week, before quickly...

21.01.2024 80

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Viva South Africa

SOUTH Africa has shown the way to the impotent Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member-countries by taking Israel to the International Court of...

14.01.2024 100

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The Baloch question

DESPITE constant rumours about the postponement of the general elections slated for Feb 8, there is no logical or legal justification for any such...

07.01.2024 100

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When time doesn’t fly

AS one New Year’s Eve turns into the next, most people tend to say time flies. Another year gone by quickly, and time does, indeed, seem to fly. But...

31.12.2023 70

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Back to square one again?

THE caretaker government has made a hash of dealing with the Baloch protesters, led by the passionate advocate Mahrang Baloch who is emulating Sammi...

24.12.2023 100

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Polls and beyond

NOW that the Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Feb 8 elections, after the Supreme Court on Friday brushed aside a challenge to...

17.12.2023 60

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The indomitable Gaza spirit

“If I must die,/ you must live/ to tell my story/ to sell my things/ to buy a piece of cloth/ and some strings,/ (make it white with a long string)/...

10.12.2023 90

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Why rumours of poll delay?

A FEW weeks after the ECP announced the date for general elections in the country — settling the issue, one would have thought — speculation has...

03.12.2023 70

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