Morocco’s second spring
Issandr El Amrani THERE are cautionary tales in the Arab uprisings, as Syria has shown: not every revolution can be as successful as Tunisia’s, not every aftermath is rosy. And then there are also...
View ArticleSmaller states as ‘rising stars’
Larry Elliott THEY lack the size of China or India. Many have to import natural resources. They have yet to be given a snappy label such as the BRICS. But Chile, Tunisia, Taiwan, Jordan and Kazakhstan...
View ArticleSign of things to come
Syed Talat Hussain The Supreme Court has spoken and the government does not like what it has heard. That is obvious and to be expected. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has been found guilty of the...
View ArticleAnother badge of honour
Babar Sattar What was the point of taking note of the contempt matter and dragging it on for months if all the gumption that the Supreme Court was capable of was inflicting 30 seconds of shame? This is...
View ArticleKayani’s doctrine of rapprochement
S Iftikhar Murshed In most men where there is honour, in Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani there is a void. The honourable course for him would have been to resign after being convicted for contempt of...
View Article4G War
Dr Farrukh Saleem First Generation War was “war of line and column tactics, where battles were formal and the battlefield was orderly.” The classic 1G war was fought 260 years ago between Frederick the...
View ArticleThe 30-second man
Masood Hasan Normally I would be throwing up but I have run out of my barf supply. I saw the picture of my grinning prime minister at 6:45 am while I was perched on my royal throne and I can swear that...
View ArticleA trinity of power
Raana Shah The trinity of power – that is the alliance of the PPP, the ANP and the MQM. Together they have wielded power like a weapon of mass destruction to protect and serve themselves in ever...
View ArticlePakistan’s Role in Global War on Terror
Rana Athar Javed Stung by suspicions, most Pakistanis believe that the big brother United States has committed several acts of “breach of trust”, including abandoning Pakistan after historical defeat...
View ArticleWhat the ages couldn’t accomplish…
Ayaz Amir The hills of the Salt Range are amongst the oldest on earth, the valleys of the Salt Range amongst the most haunting on earth. In the Kahoon Valley, over which the fingers of the Almighty...
View ArticleThe detailed verdict
Hussain H Zaidi The Supreme Court’s detailed judgment, following the short order, falls short of categorically declaring the prime minister disqualified for contempt of court. Conviction is one thing...
View ArticleIsloo notes
Chris Cork It is often observed that Islamabad is not a part of Pakistan, and that the real Pakistan exists outside the bubble of the Capital Development Authority (CDA). But having spent a couple of...
View ArticleGetting real on Siachen
Asif Ezdi The tragedy of the Gayari landslide has generated a spate of comments in Pakistan on the huge financial and environmental costs of stationing soldiers under unbelievably inhospitable...
View ArticleSleepless in Siachen
Dr Niaz Murtaza India-Pakistan politics often resembles the theatre of the bizarre as both sides fight to exceed the absurdities of the other side. Nowhere is this senseless competition more vividly...
View ArticleViolating Hurriyat constitution
Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani The uprising in the Hurriyat (M) on the statement made by Muslim Conference chief Prof Abdul Gani Bhat that UN resolutions on Kashmir had become irrelevant or impracticable seem...
View ArticleLooking in the mirror
Babar Sattar “The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror,” Rose Kennedy (mother of JFK) had said. That time seems to have returned for the legal fraternity. The rule of law in...
View ArticleAn opportunity lost
Atta-ur-Rahman The single most important discipline that impacts the growth of national self-reliance is engineering. Expertise in engineering leads to a country to develop key products and processes...
View ArticleTerrorism, Technology and Sovereignty
By Rana Athar Javed Whatever may be done to convince, it is very certain that no form of government and institutions will ever escape the nuisance of conspiracies. The phenomenon of “global war on...
View ArticleInterlocutor’s Report, Back to Square One
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The report of the group of interlocutors for Jammu & Kashmir entitled, “A New Compact With The People of Jammu & Kashmir” was finally released on May 23, 2012, after months...
View ArticleOur capacity for manufacturing nonsense
Ayaz Amir If imperfect memory serves, not long ago we were collecting bounties from the CIA for nabbing and handing over Al-Qaeda suspects. Gen Musharraf very proudly admits to this in his...
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