Our habit of mythologising Jinnah may be forgivable but it hides important facts.

Making Dr AQ Khan our president will be like India making Dr Kalam its president; only our Dr Khan will have ghairat.

Pakistan is an ‘incomplete’ ideological state, a hybrid distasteful to the Islamists.

It is time we changed the paradigm of defence in Pakistan and returned to the normalcy of trade and trade routes.

There are two kinds of consensus that Nawaz Sharif can lean on: national economy and civil-military relations.

In Greece, protesting crowds pack steel clubs they can hurt the police with and they set buildings on fire.

Pakistan is doing very well with its strategy of being friends with both America and China.

Powerful states can survive after following popular trends, but others can only get into trouble.

Terrorists are killing innocent Pakistanis. And they can kill army chiefs too, as Jaish nearly did Musharraf.

The clergy and the state in Pakistan have had problems with Allama Iqbal’s view of the state in his Sixth Lecture.