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  • The Circus is in Town, Again

    Deficit of our politics is such that while a war rages, people in IDP camps, Punjab remains theatre of power politics.

  • Driving the Metro Bus into a wall

    Mian Sahib, we stand with you for the sake of democracy, however for your own sake, stand by yourself.

  • Living Privately: Dying Publicly

    Criminal offences are not ‘personal’; they are by definition ‘public’. There is nothing ‘private’ about abuse, murder.

  • Unwilling

    I should ideally volunteer to represent the accused Rehman was defending, expose myself to risks he nonchalantly did.

  • Hard Choices

    The failings of the military establishment are many and so are the sins of Geo. Yet, the parallel is not exact.

  • Foretold Again

    We cautioned that Memo charade will be come back one day to haunt Nawaz. That day has come, and hopefully gone.

  • Protecting who?

    PPO is carte blanche to use lethal excessive force. But State repeatedly asserts it won't use it against militants.

  • Sharif versus Sharif

    As Sharif versus Sharif is on the brink of unfolding, the state erodes one “non-combatant” at a time.

  • Feeding the crocodile

    Governing principle of Pakistani State is that it negotiates (read surrender) to bullies, punishes weakest of the weak

  • Unmoved Punjab

    The federal government and perhaps the state have an ethnicity and it is Punjabi. And they just do not care.