‘Distressing is the enveloping night’

Thursday 23 April '09

Iqbal Bano, 74, Indian-born Pakistani singer, died on April 21

The city, undaunted

Tuesday 31 March '09

Lahoris didn’t bow to dictators. They won’t to terrorists

Yesterday once more

Friday 13 March '09

It is becoming increasingly clear that both Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif suffer from the same syndrome...

On the days after

Friday 6 March '09

The Lahore assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team exposed the most dangerous of vile mechanisms plaguing Pakistan today.

A long winter in Swat

Wednesday 18 February '09

Can there be any rules of engagement with the Taliban?

How could flowers blossom here?

Tuesday 16 December '08

India-Pakistan relations: the view from Karachi

Pakistan People’s Peril

Friday 29 August '08

The man soon to be Pakistan’s president suffers from psychiatric disorders, including dementia, reveals The Financial Times...

Dancing after Pappu

Tuesday 19 August '08

So it’s a case of Pappu can’t dance. Or is it? Many, including General Musharraf, believe he has done all he could for his...

Soap opera Pakistan

Friday 8 August '08

Whatever happens as the government takes on Musharraf, nothing fundamental will change

The battle for Peshawar

Monday 30 June '08

What is happening in Pakistan’s Frontier province and in the surrounding semi-autonomous tribal areas...

The kingmaker vs the king

Friday 6 June '08

Pervez Musharraf didn’t see it coming until a week ago when he met the army chief for a lengthy tête-à-tête...

What’s Zardari up to?

Monday 26 May '08

Pervez Musharraf may have been wrong on many counts but he was right when he said the other day that he did not trust Asif Ali Zardari.

Counting the change

Saturday 29 March '08

Orchestrated delays since the February 18 elections in Pakistan on the part of a slighted President Musharraf have marred the inception...

Priming a prime minister

Friday 7 March '08

It appears that the envelope containing the name of the next prime minister of Pakistan was found empty.

Kaun banega PM?

Wednesday 20 February '08

So, who will be the PM? That, indeed, is a crore-rupee question.

Too quiet to call

Thursday 14 February '08

Travels across Pakistan: a mosaic of political strongholds and curious apathies.

Some more Mush-management

Friday 25 January '08

Many in Pakistan believe that what ails Musharraf, that is, acute self-obsession...

Countdown of six weeks

Monday 7 January '08

There was little in President Pervez Musharraf’s speech on Wednesday night that could soothe the raw nerves of millions touched by Benazir Bhutto’s murder.

‘Her death has left a vacuum in Pak politics which will be impossible to fill’

Friday 28 December '07

What utter madness. And what a disgrace for Pakistan. The country will not be the same anymore without Benazir Bhutto.

Pakistan’s been here before

Friday 30 November '07

It’s only the generals riding the fanciest horses who find this political merry-go-round ride enthralling.

Hope in Pakistan’s despair

Friday 16 November '07

A new generation of upwardly mobile youngsters are taking on the Musharraf regime in subtle ways.

Fig leaf gone, once again people watch as Pak is conquered by its Army

Sunday 4 November '07

So, as expected, General Pervez Musharraf has struck again. Pakistan has a history of non-violent coups and there is no indication to suggest that this will not be one.

People’s power?

Friday 19 October '07

Most of Pakistan greeted Benazir. But note that she’s already playing the Sindh vs Punjab card

In Pakistan it’s the army, stupid

Tuesday 9 October '07

The re-election of General Pervez Musharraf by a truncated electoral college, where opposition MPs had either resigned or boycotted the election...

Armed and dangerous

Tuesday 11 September '07

What we have seen in the high-handed handling of the whole Nawaz Sharif arrival and then deportation drama is only a symptom of the disease plaguing Pakistani politics...