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Arifa Noor

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Spinning the ministers

THE Punjab information minister was on television the evening ‘fee-gate’ blew up. For those unaware of this great Lahori scandal, it erupted when...

09.04.2024 50

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The IHC six

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...

02.04.2024 70

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A woman’s story

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...

26.03.2024 100

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Unruly social media

“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,...

19.03.2024 200

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Caretaker by any other name

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...

12.03.2024 100

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Question of age

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...

05.03.2024 100

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Faultiness, old and new

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...

27.02.2024 70

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A giant’s strength

IT’S time to be worried. Really worried for Pakistan. Our political engineering formula has come undone. The hawa which was clearly blowing hard...

20.02.2024 100

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Of the people

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...

13.02.2024 100

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Aspirants unlimited

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...

06.02.2024 100

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The second chance

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...

30.01.2024 100

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Saturday night fever

THE Supreme Court maintained its time-honoured tradition of doling out justice on the eve of an election, which will eventually affect the entire...

16.01.2024 100

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Silence of the politicos

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...

09.01.2024 100

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The centre cannot hold

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...

02.01.2024 100

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What the Baloch want

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...

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Revisiting the CoD

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...

19.12.2023 100

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Let the games begin

ELECTIONS and the desired results (the musbat or positive kind) are absorbing all the oxygen in town. Every discussion in the capital (and its...

12.12.2023 100

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New security threats

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...

05.12.2023 200

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The little prince

FINALLY, there is a twist in the tale and we have some new political stuff to discuss. And for this, one has to thank Asif Ali Zardari (AAZ), whose...

28.11.2023 100

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Violence on borderlands

THE ongoing deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan has stirred a debate, within and without. But this is a debate which involves little nuance....

21.11.2023 100

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Incomplete victories

IN a recent interaction, someone commented that none of the political parties had any plans to fix the economy. This is a common refrain; many of us...

14.11.2023 70

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Fog of election

THE election has been announced, once again. Between the Supreme Court and the general pressure from the press and political parties, the ECP has...

07.11.2023 90

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The other war

THERE is a conflict going on in the Middle East, which continues to occupy centre stage in global politics. Every headline and news story, every...

31.10.2023 200

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Nawaz Sharif’s return

DO stories of martyrdom and suffering still resonate? The question came to mind as the daylong transmission of the Lahore jalsa proceeded; especially...

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Case of the missing meters

THE husband and wife woke up to a comfortably cool room in a well-off but not so central part of Lahore. But as they stepped out, they discovered that...

17.10.2023 100

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Confessional box

“In that shame, still live my sorrow’s rage” — Shakespeare TELEVISION’S prime is over. News channels that is. But in Pakistan, like many...

10.10.2023 100

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From hero to zero

AS we obsess about the economy and the past mistakes which led to the economic crisis, the saga of Reko Diq comes up frequently. The story is brought...

03.10.2023 100

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Forever technocrats

FINANCE ministers in Pakistan are familiar faces, as familiar as SRK was to those who were young in the 1990s, and Bachchan to those who grew up in...

26.09.2023 100

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The balance of the troika

THERE is a new chief justice in town. And as with any transition at the big white building of justice, much is usually written about the old and new...

19.09.2023 100

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Family at high noon

FREE of the burden of defending and explaining government policies and actions, Khawaja Asif spoke candidly about his own party. In a recent...

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