Imagine a spacious house in which four brothers live with their families in a traditional joint-family system. Each brother has...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been marked nearly universally as the passing away of a lady of immense...

Dear Prime Minister, in the not-too-distant future you have to take a momentous decision: the toughest that any Pakistani prime...

“It would have been better for an atom bomb to have been dropped on the country than to have let...

A provincial governor has resigned; the citizens of the province are distraught. The governor’s selfless service to the province evokes...

If the existing political and constitutional morass bedeviling the country was not serious enough, President Dr Alvi has written a...

On 20 December 1971, hours after being sworn in as President/Chief Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made...

After one month of a province of 120 million people having been callously placed in a rudderless state by the...

The PTI’s much-vaunted three-and-a-half-year sheen of moral rectitude and high ethical standards is losing its shine with embarrassing rapidity. But...

Dear Prime Minister, congratulations! But you have only won half the battle: in these terribly polarising times, winning the prime-ministership...

When Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, built on the four successive election victories of his legendary predecessor,...

As all eyes are now on the Supreme Court case which will determine the constitutionality of the Deputy Speaker’s egregious...

In January 2021, the grief-stricken families of the ill-fated Hazara coal miners had refused to bury the bodies of their...

Recently the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scored an astounding victory in the assembly elections of Indian Punjab, winning 92 out...

The events of the last few days have shown that the “hybrid” experiment is hurtling towards its denouement on account...

In his recent public addresses at Mailsi and the Governor’s House in Karachi, the prime minister passed disparaging comments about...

A car drives down a dusty road in Sargodha district and stops at a little village. From the car alights...

Imagine a head of state who has completed a staggering 70 years in the job, visited over 100 countries in...

Recently, Prime Minister Imran Khan relied on an opinion survey result to yet again berate people who are critical of...

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question:...

Today in 2022 we have amongst us a person who holds a unique set of political records. He is the...

The leader of a major religious party; a former princely ruler; a major feudal grandee; a leftist intellectual; a Baloch...