Shah Nawaz Mohal

Shah Nawaz Mohal

The writer is a law graduate and journalist based in Islamabad.

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The monsters they makeColumns

The monsters they make

Audacious, resolute, unrepentant Nehal Hashmi is a microcosm of PML-N Yes, dearest sirs and ma’ams, the light at the end of the tunnel still holds the promise for our partially entrapped, slightly<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/06/the-monsters-they-make/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Mar 6, 2018
Farewell, ma’amColumns

Farewell, ma’am

With Asma Jahangir gone, Pakistan has lost its moral compass A mighty titan is dead and buried. Long live her deeds, dissent and memories. The Asma Jehangir who stood against one dictator<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/20/farewell-maam/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Feb 20, 2018
‘Good Mourning’, KashmirColumns

‘Good Mourning’, Kashmir

And why India too needs azadi from KashmirThey say the land and things you don't have are always more beautiful, more splendid than the land you possess and the things you own. This ‘good

Feb 13, 2018
Wrath of the watchmenColumns

Wrath of the watchmen

Our Lordships must tread the path of ‘contempt of court’ with extreme cautionQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen) asked the Roman satirist Juvenal rhetorically two mil

Feb 6, 2018
Our canaries in a coalmineColumns

Our canaries in a coalmine

Why lives of our children are stifled, bruised and precariousSome were three years old, some were four, others seven or twelve or older. They all had one thing in common, a similar fate. They

Jan 30, 2018
Worth another shot?Columns

Worth another shot?

Will Qadri-Imran-Zardari-Chaudhary-Sheikh quintet make it this time?The lion is down but not out, he is cornered but still in the arena. The player along with his groupies is out and about doi

Jan 23, 2018
Sins of IK — The saviourColumns

Sins of IK — The saviour

The messiah of millions wallows in a new quagmireThe man had a solid run -- both on and off the field. Born and raised like a prince, he reached zenith in all and every endeavour he ventured u

Jan 16, 2018
President T, do you plan to grow up?Columns

President T, do you plan to grow up?

Has the marriage of convenience between Pakistan and USA gone stale?‘In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.’ remarked the legendary comedian late George Carlin; kno

Jan 9, 2018
Name is Jadhav, Kulbhushan JadhavColumns

Name is Jadhav, Kulbhushan Jadhav

Jadhav, the spy, has become the pivot of animosity ridden Pak-India relationsHe is no Bond, James Bond. There are no martinis, no blondes, no gadgets, no swanky cars in sight. All there is thi

Jan 2, 2018
What would Jinnah do?Columns

What would Jinnah do?

Is it possible to sift the man from the myth? In the ‘90s the white Christians of United States of America coined an acronym WWJD to sort out their moral dilemmas. The<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/26/what-would-jinnah-do/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Dec 26, 2017
The ‘E’ wordColumns

The ‘E’ word

Ubiquitous yet invisible, the march of infamous ‘Establishment’ continuesWho has seen the ‘Establishment’? I, like many others, haven't. Yet we, the grown folks of Pakistan, have heard

Dec 19, 2017
Pied Pipers of PakistanColumns

Pied Pipers of Pakistan

Losing reason to the tunes promising grandeur and blissAssuming that all those reading this piece are literate, grown folks I dare to crush an amusing fairy tale from our childhood. The story

Dec 12, 2017