At America's finest school, many realised long ago that the problem was “always Pak-Af, not Af-Pak”.
June 28, 2011
Asif Ali Zardari: Hot. Yousaf Raza Gilani — Not hot. Being “hot or not” in politics is a game of “value addition”.
August 13, 2010
It’s official — Pakistan is undergoing a midlife crisis. The bad boy of international geo-politics has outlived...
August 3, 2010
The verdict is out: Pakistan’s latest ‘peace talks’ with India were anything but peaceful. Furthermore, insiders...
July 19, 2010
Punjab is imploding and exploding, almost simultaneously. The explosions have been at the revered Data Darbar, the...
July 13, 2010
The interior minister of Pakistan is a famous man. He’s famous for his flashy ties.
June 30, 2010
Its co-chairman may be a ‘yar of yars’ – with a Thatcher-like grip over the party.
June 24, 2010
This is with reference to Ahmad Rafay Alam’s article of June 12 titled ‘The world’s best mayor?’
Compounded...
June 12, 2010
Here’s a confession: I don’t watch PTV. Like most of my generation, I was seduced in my teens, away from this old...
June 10, 2010
Dear mutineers,
We haven’t seen or heard from you in a while. Rumour has it you’re worried about the state of...
June 2, 2010