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ANALYSIS: Dwindling options in Afghanistan —Najmuddin A Shaikh
For Obama, retreat from Afghanistan is not really an option at this time. This is his war and he is convinced that abandoning Afghanistan will mean having to contend with an even more difficult situation in Pakistan
Returning from his first vacation, President Obama would have wanted to [...]
THE OTHER COLUMN: No easy answers —Ejaz Haider
I like to write deadpan. But sometimes, as I feel right now, I wish I could do justice in words and explain the situation and the men I just met. At times it is good to be poetic; not always, but sometimes
If you think it is dangerous [...]
ANALYSIS: Lessons from the latest crisis —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
Pakistani politics will continue drifting from crisis to crisis unless the political leaders imbibe democracy as political culture and show their commitment by practicing democracy in pursuing their individual and party agendas
The confrontation between the PMLN and the PPP has been averted, at least for the [...]
Over the top – Why do we need an IMAX, anyway? – Masood Hasan
I am afraid I have gravely offended their excellencies my erstwhile bureaucrat friends, especially Suleman (Solomon) Ghani and Taimur Osman Azmat who have reviled me for having written a pack of lies about the IMAX without even bothering to verify the facts [...]
The much-awaited NFC Award – 2 – Shahid Kardar
The federal government frequently modifies the rules of the game through tortuous revisions of legal and related definitions to suit its version of what constitutes constitutional role, mandates, distribution and scope of taxation domain and powers between different levels of government. The treatment meted out to the [...]
Capital suggestion – Dr Farrukh Saleem
O America they are saying that you want to destabilise Pakistan. Why did America then vote all of its 371,743 votes at the IMF in favour of a $7.6 billion loan to enable Pakistan implement a stabilisation programme? Why did America then goad the so-called FODP pledge $5.7 billion to [...]
The other half of democracy – Ayesha T Haq
It’s been a while since I wrote anything. Sometimes it’s good to take out a little time to reflect on all that has been going on. Every time you think you have managed to get your head around an issue something bigger looms over the horizon. The [...]
Unnatural deaths of our leaders – Aakar Patel
Unnatural deaths have delivered a terrible cull on the stock of South Asia’s politicians. In India alone, we have lost a dozen leaders to incompetence or savagery.
YSR Reddy, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, a state with 7.5 crore (75 million) people and the city of Hyderabad, died [...]