The writer is a political analyst and the Executive Director of the Regional Peace Institute. He can be reached at: [email protected]; Twitter: @RaoofHasan.
ColumnsCandid Corner Establishing yet again that time is inconsequential “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle <a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/03/19/the-second-rising-of-the-taliban/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ColumnsTime to transcend the barriers of hate“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”Albert CamusThe manner in which India and Pakistan have chosen to live next to each other over the las
Candid CornerOf the state, leadership, institutions and people“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the thre
ColumnsCandid CornerWill Taliban rule Afghanistan again?Things appear to be moving away from hostilities and, according to some inveterate optimists, towards peace in Afghanistan. But, does cessati
Democracy needs sacrifice and no scalp fits the guillotine better than the prime minister’s More than a week into agitation politics, more than a week of living in a town under siege, more
Beware the lurking danger and the battalion of Brutuses Well, the scent of the impending revolution has preceded the marchers to the capital: we have a town under siege of a draconian gover
Army should stay out and allow democracy to sort itself out By invoking article 245 of the constitution and asking the armed forces to “act in aid of civil power when<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/07/27/invoking-a-countdown/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Lines clearly drawn, the battle seems to be on. There appears no backing off The war that is currently being waged in the North Waziristan Agency (NWA) is a small<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/07/05/hail-the-new-caesar/" title="Read more" >...</a>
A bunch of plunderers moves to assume unlimited regressive power As if the midnight assaults on PEMRA and NADRA did not generate enough vicarious satisfaction, the prime minister’s guns blazed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/15/the-germs-of-dictatorship-come-swarming-back/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Our daily life is replete with examples of brazen political high-handedness that have been reported without any relief. But the one that is the subject of this column surpasses the rest because this n
Doomed to live with corruption I am tired in my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/02/02/no-respite-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Why? And to whose benefit? Let’s face it: there is a concerted move afoot to pit the military against the judiciary. Indications are that the vested interests may have made some headway<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/12/01/the-judiciary-military-divide/" title="Read more" >...</a>
