No clear path in Afghanistan —Najmuddin A Shaikh

No clear path in Afghanistan —Najmuddin A Shaikh
While all leaders are clear that abandoning Afghanistan is not an option, there appears to be a growing sentiment that some way should be found to enable NATO forces to declare victory and leave
The preliminary count in the Afghan election has been completed by the Independent Election [...]

PDA @ LUMS —Ejaz Haider

PDA @ LUMS —Ejaz Haider
The public domain puts certain constraints on the element of privacy but it is important to dispel the argument that someone can violate someone’s privacy simply because he/she was sitting in the open and therefore is not eligible to the privacy defence
Perplexed? Let’s leave it for a while and ask [...]

A tale of two parties —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi

A tale of two parties —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
The future of Pakistan’s democracy does not depend on prosecuting former rulers. This has been done several times in the past without any improvement in the prospects of democracy
The PPP and the PMLN have generally maintained cordial interaction with each other since the 2008 general elections. However, [...]

Horn do rasta lo – Matloob Varaich

Ehtisab ka karwa ghoont bher lein – Khalid Mehmood Hashmi

Murda qoum ka yom e azadi – Barrister Zahoor Butt

Kramwel aur Musharraf – 1 – Barrister Shahid Hamid

Siasat ka almiya aur Nawaz Sharif – Prof. Naeem Qasim

Celebrations amid misery – Kunwar Idris

Celebrations amid misery – Kunwar Idris
COMPLETING just one year in a constitutional tenure of five hardly calls for a celebration. No one, however, should be objecting if President Asif Zardari’s ministers and courtiers thought otherwise.
The objection, and a serious one, is to the accompanying blaze of publicity at public expense.
To recount the achievements of [...]

Ban on pics of celebrities smoking – Mark Lawson

Ban on pics of celebrities smoking – Mark Lawson
A QUIZ question: what is the link between ex-President Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov and the British journalist Lynn Barber? If this were a picture round, you’d get it immediately, from the little angled strip of white on their hand. The answer is that attempts have been [...]

How much land does a man need? – Ardeshir Cowasjee

How much land does a man need? – Ardeshir Cowasjee
THIS nation will remain unchanged in its deprivation and depravity until someone comes along who will ensure that we follow the first dictum of our founder and maker, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and impose and maintain law and order.
Women and children will continue to kill each other [...]

Recipe for obscurantism – A.H. Nayyar

Recipe for obscurantism – A.H. Nayyar
THE new National Education Policy released last week needs a careful and clear-headed national debate. It was intended to be a first step in the long overdue process of reforming our education system.
It is clear, however, that the new policy has missed its target. It is a step backwards and [...]

Islamabad aur hairanabad – Mujahid Hussain

Pani per likhi tehreer – Shahid Nadeem

The way to go – Masood Hasan

The way to go – Masood Hasan
Why am I not surprised that the death of Keith Floyd, the British chef, journalist, an army officer, a bartender, a restaurateur and finally a celebrity television chef who made some 20 television series, which have aired in over 40 countries and an author who wrote more than 20 [...]