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Arifa NoorDawn |
Other than their mission creep, there are some jitters behind closed doors.
The significance of the Peshawar meeting should not be lost among other national headlines.
For one side, social media is full of lies; for the other, mainstream media is biased.
AROUND a decade ago, when digital media was still a thing of the future, The Serial hit the market and captured imaginations. An investigative...
IN the days and weeks of ‘peacemaking’, there is advice aplenty for what the PTI and Imran Khan can or have to do. The government is ready to talk...
IT may be the season to be jolly in some parts of the world, but here, at home, it’s the time for some ‘talking-shalking’. The PTI was the first...
IN the wake of the 26th Amendment, it seems a weakened and tamed judiciary is now an accepted reality as the focus shifts to the legislation for...
THERE is a new alliance man in town. It is Faisal Vawda, the senator without a party. Owned by no one politically, but taken seriously by everyone,...
SOME months ago, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) called a jirga in Gwadar. The aim was to highlight the many challenges of Balochistan such as...
COVID-19 may be a thing of the past for the rest of the world but in Pakistan, the lockdowns are here to stay. Lockdowns to control the smog and...
POLITICIANS and their clothes can never be separated from politics. It is the side plot which moves along with the main story — scene to scene, act...
LAST week, the prime minister found time to inaugurate two flyovers in Islamabad. Despite the ‘live coverage’ on television, it wasn’t a news...
IT is becoming harder and harder to find something new to write about as far as politics in Pakistan is concerned. The country is stuck in a time...
ON Monday, a new chief justice presided over the Supreme Court, as people watched with hope and trepidation. The mood was not as celebratory and...
I HAVE always wanted to begin a piece with these clichéd lines and on Sunday night, I got the chance. ‘As these lines were being written’ is a...
POLITICS has been stuck at the same roundabout for weeks now, with the government and its allies obsessed with passing a constitutional amendment;...
ONCE again, there is chaos on the streets in Islamabad and beyond. There are people on the roads, communications and life have been disrupted and...
PAKISTANI politics is a gift which keeps on giving — to the language we speak. And the recent buzzword for the state of politics in our land is...
TWENTY years ago, four people were shot dead in Indian Gujarat. Of those killed, three were men and one was a 19-year-old woman, Ishrat Jahan. It...
ON Sunday, the PTI was able to hold a jalsa in Islamabad. More than a year after its troubles began on May 9, 2023, and the party contested an...
BANGLADESH next door is going through a period of instability in which street protests by students ended in a government being sent home after...
THE protests in Balochistan continue, having begun over a week ago. In the midst of much uncertainty and volatility elsewhere, including a rather...
OF late, it seems as if the state of Pakistan is caught up in a constant battle with its citizens, from Balochistan to Karachi to the more central...
MUCH has been predicted on TV this past week about the dark fate awaiting the PTI. There was a lot of finger-wagging as those in the know made dire...
THE court verdict is in and it seems to have gone overwhelmingly in PTI’s favour; most of the judges felt the party continues to exist as an...