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December 2011’s B-side focuses on the rise of a new politics in Pakistan in the form of an article by James Caan on the rise of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). With this in mind, the emergence of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the PPP is also examined in an article penned by him. The B-side [...]

Today President Zardari will address both houses of Parliament and will hail the 18th constitutional amendment and I hail it too. Credit goes to the PPP government for achieving this milestone in returning power to the parliament and the prime minister. Above all credit goes to the much sneered at committee for constitutional reforms headed by Raza Rabbani. [...]

Photo: The Nation The city of Lahore lived up to its big-event billing when the four provinces and the centre agreed upon the seventh edition of the National Finance Commission award here on Friday. The post-agreement press conference, which brought together the four happy-looking chief ministers and a seemingly proud federal minister in a sign [...]

Courtesy of Associated Press of Pakistan This post must be read in conjunction with the previous post ‘Ramazan for the Ruled’ shown here. Few words are necessary to explain my key points in this post except to say that the two photos above show how the rulers of Pakistan both civilian and military spent Ramazan. [...]

Photo: Dawn Ramazan is the month of mercy and blessings. With Ramazan now over and probably forgotten  I wish to pass comment on the mercies that this Ramazan brought to Pakistan as the photo above shows clearly! Few Pakistanis will disagree that the month passed with few blessings save for the masses suffering rampant inflation. [...]

The PPP government is not liked by many a Pakistani, including this scribe owing to its poor governance.The talk of the town or chowks is of change with mid-term elections and army rule been touted as the solution for our ills. I remain a principled opponent of the PPP government, yet it needs to be [...]

As 14 August approaches, introspection continues and today the focus is on Pakistan turning into ‘Corrupt’istan. The PPP government is in the dock for many acts of ommission and now commission too as per an investigative report by Kamran Khan. The famed GEO TV anchor Kamran Khan’s report does all the talking and details rampant [...]

My views on the so-called ineligibilty of the Sharif brothers is  captured above, need I say more? That said I will say at least this, that it is a wicked verdict coming from the canine Dog(gar) court. The judgement was authored by Mr 10% though it does bear the pawprint of the dog sorry Dog(gar) [...]

George Herbet once said that “hope is the poor man’s bread”. In luckless Pakistan this hope is all that people live for, hoping against hope for the miracle of a better tomorrow. However miracles do not come easy in this land of the pure made impure by military and civilian dictatorships alike. That said a correction [...]

It has taken me more than a few weeks to stomach and digest the news that Pakistan has elected our revered Mr 10% as her President. Indeed I still have to pinch myself daily to prove I am alive and that this is not a nightmare I am seeing.  But sadly it is a nightmare and its not on Freddy Krueger’s [...]