Reverse swept
Demonetisation jarred the BJP just as much as it had hammered the economy The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing elections across five states earlier this month, most notably Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and…
Post-carbon
Running out of time, indeed! During the UN Climate Change Conference 2018, COP24, currently underway in Katowice, Poland, PM Imran Khan’s Advisor on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said “we are running…
Investing faux pas
Of course there are few better guilty pleasures than finding reassurances in other’s failures As December begins and the year 2018 draws to a close, many of us might be looking forward…
Counter-bhai in Mumbai
Many sides of the ‘encounter specialist’ It is only recently that the other side of the police encounters has become a part of the mainstream narrative on human rights in South Asia.…
Not Trump’s throne
But his world! On Nov 2, US President Donald Trump tweeted an image of himself captioned ‘Sanctions Army Coming November 5’ in an obvious, and outlandish, use of Game of Thrones imagery…
What China wants
And how it’ll get it Prime Minister Imran Khan left a burning country back home to visit China last week just so he could get a bailout package along the lines of…
Sidelining the sultan?
President Arif Alvi met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday amidst a crisis in the Middle East that involves the country that Erdogan rules and the country that Pakistan just…
Rising Afghanistan
A story of Afghan scholars Over four million people cast their votes in the parliamentary election in Afghanistan over the weekend, despite the violence that ensued. That is, around half of the…
Ukraine’s red alert
Russia’s old attitude The long ongoing proxy warfare in Ukraine formally entered the religious realm this week when the Russian Orthodox Church severed relations with Patriarchate of Constantinople – the historical seat…
Dubai Test: Pakistan miss out with Australia there for the taking
Pakistan needing seven wickets on the fifth day of a UAE Test to win the match, with runs superfluous, is as nailed on a position to win as any in all of…
Cul-de-currency
Just whose money runs the world? The Pakistani rupee retraced an historic low this week, touching 138 against the US dollar. Given the International Monetary Fund’s conditions, the currency is expected to…
10 years on…
The ‘mother of all recessions’? By the end of September 2008, Lehman Brothers had collapsed and the then US President George W Bush was speaking of an “issue in the Wall Street”.…
Pakistan need to forget the Asia Cup disaster ahead of Australia series
LAHORE: The Asia Cup exit understandably has had its ramifications and the aftershocks being felt in the statements coming out of the Pakistani camp. It isn’t particularly encouraging when the captain comes…
How the Asia Cup debacle burst Pakistan’s ODI bubble
LAHORE: Surprise knockouts and early tournament exits can happen to the best of sides. This on its own should never be used to conjure knee-jerk reactions or call for a mass exodus.…
From Kargil to cricket
Musharraf’s legacy? Just when one thought events inside Dubai International Stadium couldn’t get any worse with India pounding the national cricket side, one saw Pervez Musharraf in the VIP box enjoying the…
Case against impeachment?
How close will this one get? Veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s latest book Fear: Trump in the White House is the latest – and arguably the most high-profile – in a series of…
Pakistan, India clash anything but a dead rubber
LAHORE: Technically Wednesday’s Asia Cup clash between Pakistan and India is a dead rubber. For, there would be no impact on the final standings no matter which side wins the match. This…