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It does not often happen that you encounter something that not only brightens up your day but generates a kind of hope that refuses to fade away. Such...
What appeared to be a mere figment of imagination a few weeks ago is gradually assuming a concrete shape. The bursts of fresh air which originally...
What this country has been so pathetically denuded of over the last many years is a quotient of hope. There is virtually no one, across societal...
It was another of those countless visits to television channels that I have been making in recent times to explain my party’s position to the people...
It all started unravelling in the courtroom on April 30 when a bench of the Supreme Court started debating the letter sent by six judges of the IHC as...
An old saying has it that “when you dance with the devil, the devil doesn’t change. The devil changes you.” In this country, it is almost...
Confronted with a myriad of problems, despondency often sets in to dull the spirit and dilute the passion. But with the first drop of rain wetting a...
Debates have often raged in the country regarding the reasons why Pakistani institutions crumble so abominably under pressure that they stop...
The induction of a new government that is not equipped with the legitimacy to come up with any medium- or long-term strategy to rid the country of its...
Tampering with the election process has been a favourite pastime of the power-wielders in the country. It is sardonically stated that the only free...
“I am tired, tired of being enclosed here. I am wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through...
It is only the symbol of a ‘bat’, but it already has a million stories associated with it. The more the orchestrators try to oust it from...
The Peshawar High Court’s decision to restore to the PTI its election symbol of bat has cast a spell of shock upon the entire government machinery...
It is seldom that one witnesses a state and its institutions so wholesomely and maniacally driven by the task of eliminating the legacy of one...
It was Shakespeare who said in ‘The Tempest’: “Those are pearls that were his eyes”. So powerful was the impact of the line that T S Eliot...
Much that it may be denied in every conceivable way, the Sunday night virtual jalsa of the PTI has jolted the power-wielders out of their contrived...
We are living through times when a foreboding often casts its shadow that whatever we were taught through our evolving years, whatever we learnt...
As time crawls to February 8, the date the ECP has designated for holding the next general elections in the country, the related uncertainties are...