Thus spoke Malala
Having survived the Taliban, brave Malala now takes on the Land of the Pure “They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would send girls to the hell just…
Punjab’s Faustian bargain breaks
You can only scratch the Taliban’s back so long Punjab made a Faustian bargain with the Taliban in 2010. The last spate of bombings in Punjab’s capital stretched across 2009. This included…
Musharraf on trial
Can the judiciary and politicians take on themselves? Musharraf’s time has come and so has Nawaz Sharif’s. Which historian of Pakistan would have predicted that the tables would turn on the general…
Why not to condemn the Ziarat attack
Balochistan is more important than a building There is something off when amongst two incidents of terrorism in Balochistan; one in which a building was destroyed, the other in which 25 people,…
The revolution will not be televised
Would Pakistan’s corporate media televise a revolution? Sometimes events in a foreign context open up space to look into a local reality. When the recent spate for protests broke out in Istanbul’s…
The case against privatising power
PPP, PML-N both responsible for present power crisis With 20 hours of outages in mid-summer and Rs500 billion circular debt balance to pay, there is no doubt that a serious crisis has…
The MQM purge
The party’s two-faced character shall remain “The MQM workers must reform or they risk losing me,” is the statement from the party’s chief Altaf Hussain that has been released from 90, its…
The PML-N victory
How the Sharifs got their politics ‘right’ in Punjab The mandate from Punjab has been delivered for the rest of Pakistan: the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) shall govern for the next five…
The tall building complex
Do we need the LDA? And why not to build tall “Every city I go to is a huge building site for capitalist surplus absorption” – David Harvey Twenty-two dead – 9…
‘Toba Tek Singh’
A left-wing election campaign on a shoestring budget “Politics has changed in Toba Tek Singh,” said Rana Hussain, aged above 70, sitting next to me on the bus to what in the…
Holding Balochistan hostage
Through the election bullet On May 1, 2013, 22,000 troops and 50,000 ‘law enforcers’ entered 12 districts of Balochistan to “conduct a free-and-fair election”. The existing number of troops in the areas…
Musharraf’s accountability
Too many people have too much to lose – and that includes the current military top brass Generals in Pakistan are generally quite lovely creatures, short, stout and often carrying a moustache…
I shall not criticise the military
A declaration of all the ‘good things’ the military has done “Talk against the military cannot be tolerated,” was the gist of statement made by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday…
I shall not criticise the military
A declaration of all the ‘good things’ the military has done “Talk against the military cannot be tolerated,” was the gist of statement made by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday…
The politics of care-taking
The first consensus interim setup must deliver only its mandate May 11 has been announced as the date of the next General Election. With 52 days to go, there is no sign…
Our homes were not burnt
Christian community must turn to politics to end ‘untouchability’ What choorhi and what is it about our caste, everyone runs from us, Underpaid, reduced to slavery, at the doorstep of the ruler,…
Who will be our Chavez?
Chavez is dead, but his legacy shall live on Hugo Chavez is dead. But his spirit still lives. In the eulogies to the great Bolivarian socialist, in the commitment to continue his…
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