Stories from Amina Jilani
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Change crops up again
What chances do Khan and Qadri have — and more importantly, are they what Pakistan needs?
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Sink or swim
The top, all the way along, has been rotten to its core, rot has steadily permeated downwards as deep as it can get.
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Of its own making
As things stand, who or what is the alternative? Theories and suspicions are rife.
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As it is
Terrorist violence flourishes, as does sectarian violence both senseless and apparently, unstoppable, by ‘agencies’.
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‘Tis a pity…
Imran Khan has blundered badly and the blunders are too well known to bear boring repetition.
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Down to basics
The General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani firecracker of Guy Fawkes Day and national reaction — still continuing — tells all.
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The tussling trio
Chief justice, president and army; All three lay claim to some sort of divine right.
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‘Los desaparecidos’
The issue of the disappeared involves serious breaches of ‘hallowed’ Constitution of Pakistan, of international law.
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Needed: a break in the cycle
October 19 judgment cemented the fact that elections cannot be ‘free and fair’ as long as politicians can be bought.
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Ignorant and misguided?
How do Imran Khan’s plans to pacify, deal with Taliban fit in with his thinking on education, role for girls & women?