Arif Nizami

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A flash in the pan?Was the show of strength by the PML-N in front of NAB’s Lahore headquarters on Tuesday merely a flash in the pan or a real change of direction, only time will tell. Of course,

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The day afterThe day after widespread national condemnation of India on the first anniversary of annexation of Kashmir, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi got a bit carried away. In a talk

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A welcome respiteAs efforts to stifle whatever little is left of independent voices in the country continue unabated, it is the superior judiciary that has emerged as a strong advocate of prot

Transparency gone wrongThe other day I was watching CNN. In its brand reports segment, it briefly introduced Emirates.The Dubai based airline is now the fourth largest airline in the world

No clear directionFinally, leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif has declared himself fully recovered from Covid-19. Since his return from London in March the former

Turning a new leaf?Finally, the prime minister deemed it fit to attend the ongoing National Assembly budget session. His ‘surprise’ appearance in the lower house was ostensibly to answer t

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A pyrrhic victory for judge Isa? The very day BNP-M (Balochistan National Party-Mengal) announced quitting the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) ruling alliance, the prime minister i

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The worst is yet to come The long hot summer of discontent is here. No matter what political views one holds, or whichever way one looks at it, there seems to be little light at the end of the tu

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A mockery of fair play?The cat and mouse game played out by the NAB (National Accountability Bureau) at the house of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore on T

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And PIA’s perennial problemsMiseries do not come alone. As if the relentless attack of Covid-19 with all its dire human, social and economic consequences was not enough to sap the nation’s

Skirting the real issuesAmid the release of the damning sugar commission’s inquiry report there is talk of bringing in a conflict of interest law barring holders of public office from enga

Anomalies of the 10th NFCInstead of whining about the eighteenth amendment the federal government should set its own house in order. Even before the pandemic, the economy was in dire straits.