ColumnsThe 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
ColumnsFarewell, 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
Columns‘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
ColumnsWrath 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
ColumnsOur 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
ColumnsWorth 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
ColumnsSins 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
ColumnsPresident 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
ColumnsName 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
ColumnsWhat 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
ColumnsThe ‘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
ColumnsPied 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