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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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ISRAEL’S destructive military campaign in Gaza, which has so far killed over 35,000 Palestinians, including nearly 14,000 children over the past...
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...
NAWAZ Sharif seems to be recovering from the shock of the February election result and asserting himself, perhaps, realising that just as his party...
HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of...
NOTWITHSTANDING its unprecedented public support, the PTI is facing multiple dilemmas. Recent statements by its leaders, including the party’s...
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...
THE famous six — no less heroic than Enid Blyton’s Famous Five — write a letter which grabs newspaper headlines and becomes the subject of...
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...
AFTER the Feb 8 elections and the events preceding it left Pakistan badly divided, unwelcome developments are taking place which could severely strain...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ONE social media user said it was a remarkable victory; it was, after all, almost “a century scored without a bat”; it appeared an...
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,...
“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...
IRAN and Pakistan exchanged missiles, presumably fired by drones, aimed at Baloch ‘camps’ either side of the border this week, before quickly...
SOUTH Africa has shown the way to the impotent Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member-countries by taking Israel to the International Court of...
DESPITE constant rumours about the postponement of the general elections slated for Feb 8, there is no logical or legal justification for any such...
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...
THE caretaker government has made a hash of dealing with the Baloch protesters, led by the passionate advocate Mahrang Baloch who is emulating Sammi...
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...
“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)/...
A FEW weeks after the ECP announced the date for general elections in the country — settling the issue, one would have thought — speculation has...