Musharraf was bad for Pakistan on many counts; the economy wasn’t one of them.

Why may the rule of law be established only through one man alone? Is it not a pervasive need across the spectrum?

A war that includes Haqqanis has all the potential of keeping alive on Pakistan’s western border.

Age-old territorial issues must not remain intractable, must find accommodation for mutually beneficial resolutions.

General Musharraf, when he became the president, embodied both the ‘politics’ and the ‘power’ of war in his person.

Comprehensively worded, the joint statement covers the essential parameters of future engagement.

The liberals only lament and criticise, without so much as attempting to evolve a parallel progressive narrative.

A prime minister on the defensive and sullen and uninspiring; hardly convincing.

Asif Zardari is perhaps the only man who can rescue the PPP and resurrect it to its older glory.

Dialogue as the consensual representative will must be given its due share of time to play itself out.