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It has always seemed that the madresssah debate and prescriptions were not based on solid efforts.
Do we truly have a reincarnation of Nawabzada Nasrullah amongst us?
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 warp...
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; the...
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...
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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...
DELULU is the solulu Origin: Gen Z fans Meaning: The latest version of ‘fake it till you make it’ or being delusional is the solution Current...
WHEN the news first came of Aun Ali Khosa having been picked up, the name didn’t strike a bell. Then his pictures began to be shared on social...
BANGLADESH next door is going through a period of instability in which street protests by students ended in a government being sent home after 15-odd...
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 entity...
DRIP, drip, drip … the drops fall, big and small. There is a conversation here, an incident there. A snatched conversation with an acquaintance, a...
THE budget has come and gone, as far as parliament is concerned. The PPP showed much concern and made much noise but then quietly voted for it, while...
IN the midst of a budget debate, the government also held a meeting on security and made some big decisions — decisions perhaps far weightier than...
PERHAPS 2024 was always meant to be the year voters were going to knock some sense into those who grew complacent in their power, especially in South...
LAST week, the military leadership got together for discussions and brainstorming in what is called the ‘formation commanders conference’. The...
FEB 8 seems a lifetime away for those of us in the television business. New stories, new crises, the latest headlines have given us a form of ADD. We...
BUDGET time is here again, with unending discussions of money in amounts most of us cannot fathom. Numbers amounting to billions and arabs — not to...
THERE has been far too much discussion on May 9 in the past week, making the issue as repetitive as our talk show discussions. But then, I do claim to...
IT has been almost a year since May 9. In the coming days, much will be said and written about this unfortunate day, its significance and tragedy....
SUNDAY is a day of rest but not for the hardworking people running the government of Pakistan. These men, and a few women, never rest. This Sunday was...
A CLIP from a recent television talk show is doing the rounds on the banned platform, X. In it, a journalist/ commentator discusses how rumours of a...
THE Punjab information minister was on television the evening ‘fee-gate’ blew up. For those unaware of this great Lahori scandal, it erupted when...
LETTERS are the new black in Pakistani politics. If the week before it was about the letters related to Aitchison College, more recently, pen was put...
MAHWISH works at Dawn News in Islamabad. She stands out in a large room full of people, not because she is a woman surrounded by men but because she...
“A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad” — Albert Camus LAST Saturday,...
NOW that the people have voted and been outwitted, a new parliament is in place, and a new president and prime minister have reached Constitution...
SHEHBAZ Sharif is the new prime minister of Pakistan and the first one to sit in this chair for consecutive terms; he is also the second to get here...
THE election is over, government formation underway and the uncertainty of who will govern is coming to an end. But unlike a short Hollywood film, our...
IT’S time to be worried. Really worried for Pakistan. Our political engineering formula has come undone. The hawa which was clearly blowing hard...
THE people of Pakistan waited long enough for this election, part of which should have happened early last year — in KP and Punjab — and part of...
THIS is one election where it has been more difficult than usual to keep track of candidates switching sides and parties. Even so, a recent induction...
A DECADE ago, in the course of election day in 2013, I, along with colleagues visited a polling station in Rawalpindi. Established in a government...
THE Supreme Court maintained its time-honoured tradition of doling out justice on the eve of an election, which will eventually affect the entire...
ELECTIONS in Pakistan have become a thriller film, where the clichéd twists just never stop, and those watching do not know whether to be scared or...
SHAKESPEARE may have come up with a line for all times when he wrote “to be or not to be”, but in Pakistan we have found a dilemma just as...
EARLY on Sunday, there were few people in the green areas in front of the Islamabad Press Club. The rows of quietly seated protesters were missing as...
IN recent years, the Charter of Democracy has become the holy grail of our politics — perhaps even a term that, Camelot-like, denotes nostalgia for...
ELECTIONS and the desired results (the musbat or positive kind) are absorbing all the oxygen in town. Every discussion in the capital (and its...
THE security situation in Pakistan continues to be of concern. And the decision to repatriate illegal migrants has done little to stem the tide. That...
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