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A COUPLE of weeks ago, I was invited to a Twitter space on local governments on a Sunday evening. As participation did not involve looking presentable...
What next, is the question on everyone’s minds now that Imran Khan has crossed the Rubicon. Despite the reservations of those around him, as well as...
THERE are no clichés left to describe the current state of affairs in Pakistan. There aren’t many adjectives left either. They just seem inadequate...
A NEW year begins, though in Pakistan we are already braced for old issues, older than just a few months. This was brought home by the new army...
IT doesn’t happen very often but this weekend Imran Khan did get upstaged, despite having announced D-Day for the Punjab and KP assemblies. Before...
THE year draws to an end, having passed in what appear to be 12 blinks of the eye. Even though 2022 brought the end of the pandemic, it was not an...
NOW that it is all quiet on the you-know-what front, attention is focused on the political chessboard. Imran Khan is in no mood to relent and is now...
‘Tabdeeli aa nahi rahi, tabdeeli aa gayee hai (change isn’t coming, it’s already arrived). And no, the PTI has little to do with it this time...
AS the year hurtles towards its end, few would deny these past months have brought us many firsts, where our politics has been concerned. And among...
IT was not a quiet weekend by any stretch. The PTI, like Downton Abbey’s dowager countess, is unfamiliar with the idea of a weekend, as it continued...
WHAT a week it has been, dominated by allegations and denials. Imran Khan and others in the PTI march came under a gun attack. We heard the fire of...
THE news of the death of a fellow journalist when it first reached us on Monday last was our own, private loss: the loss of those few in a large...
IN the summer of 1999, a politician’s son shot dead a young woman at a party in New Delhi, India, for refusing to serve him a drink. A model, the...
SUNDAY brought around another series of by-elections, but despite the excitement-filled headlines in the media, the results simply followed the trend...
DURING a recent conversation, a fellow journalist and friend expressed regret that he wasn’t trained in air-conditioning repair. And before I could...
FLOODS, an impending retirement and a new finance minister — yet little seems settled. Most of us continue to wonder about what will come next....
THE previous week began with high-profile UN meetings and international hobnobbing and ended with a judicial conference, audio leaks from the Prime...
RECENTLY, Salahuddin Ahmed, a well-known legal eagle of Pakistan, tweeted about feeling gloomy. And he wasn’t referring to inflation or the floods....
THE floods are wreaking havoc, as one-third of the country has been covered in water. The impact on the country, the economy cannot be emphasised...
IN the changed times we face, there is a new government and a new opposition. The establishment has turned neutral and the world too is facing not a...
IT takes a humanitarian crisis to overshadow the political crises that engulf us most of the time. And if the advent of Covid-19 was one such moment...
UNDOUBTEDLY, it was a big birthday bash. Though Aug 14 fell on Sunday, the celebrations had begun shortly before midnight a day earlier. Apart from...
TO begin with, a cliché much favoured by journalists, NAB has been ‘nabbed’. Perhaps with as much alacrity as all the parties had displayed to...
‘KARMA’ is a word adopted comfortably by those who speak the English language. So much so that there is a well-known phrase which uses the word....