Humayun Gauhar

China raises…I am talking of the Great Wall of China, one of the wonders of the world. What happens on either side is not static. It keeps changing. Before the economic downturn caused by th

Bhutto and the courts that hung him“Law Courts do not exist in my book”, thus spake the great Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to Altaf Gauhar way back in the early seventies. In the end, those very la

“Why did you have to defend a man like Mir Shakil ur Rehman?” asked a reader.I was baffled at this question. I was defending a cardinal principle of justice, that a person is assumed to be i

No longer do we want dictators in ‘democrats’ clothingAs we all know, or should know, the cornerstone of justice is: all accused will be deemed to be innocent until proved to be guilty i

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India needs to get over its inferiority complex I’ve been saying for decades that, “India is a large country with a small country mentality.” I’m grateful to India’s government for proving me<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/30/lumbering-giant-with-a-midgets-mentality/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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And there are many cookies still to crumble In just a month or so, Imran Khan would have realized that batting on a sticky wicket is one thing but batting in a<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/23/bail-doesnt-mean-off-the-hook/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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You will be judged by whether you put the State on the right tracks in the right directionOne of the writer’s problems is the panic he faces every time he (or she) is confronted by a blank compu

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We are embroiled in a battle between our State and the System. The State must winMy dear Imran:Well done. Congratulations. Not only did you and your party deserve this electoral victory, so di

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To be credible, accountability has now to be across the board “Why are you cartwheeling like a monkey, Maverick? What’s happened to you?” I asked like night. “Well, I am a monkey,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/08/the-pakistani-thanksgiving-day/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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The way out of our economic destruction is to apply the method of Muhammad Bin Salman“A penny for your thoughts,’ said Maverick. “You look deep in contemplation. What’s bugging you?”

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Like Nawaz Sharif, system too is getting a rope long enough to hang itselfI was sitting at my desk twiddling my thumbs wondering what to write given the utter confusion that has overtaken us with

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Could it be with aliens, Jinns, a black hole, angels, a wrinkle in the mind or what? We all know the now hackneyed saying that the wheels of God grind slowly but<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/06/close-encounters-of-a-mad-kind/" title="Read more" >...</a>