Trade with India: Nawaz Sharif must fulfill his mandate

India will gain from freer mutual trade, but so will Pakistan It seems that the PML-N government may well be set to achieve one…

Seedhi Baat, Raza Rumi on terrorism and threat on media

Raza Rumi discusses terrorism in Pakistan and the role played by PMLN to curb it – 2014.…

Raza Rumi says Pakistan should see its interest in Iran Pakistan gas pipeline, says it will shorten

The gas crisis worsens in Pakistan. Raza Rumi says Pakistan should see its interest in Iran Pakistan gas pipeline.…

Raza Rumi says lack of proper energy policy for decades have created huge gas crisis

Raza Rumi asserts that the prevailing gas crisis in the county is impacting everyone. The demand for gas is way more than its supply.…

At the Abyss

By Raza Rumi The recent drone strike in Pakistan’s northwest has eliminated an enemy of the state and his close associates. Hakimullah Mehsud’s death…

Nawaz Sharif, a veteran of Pakistan’s political tumult

CNN’s Jethro Mullen weighs in on Nawaz Sharif The strongest contender to become the next Pakistani prime minister is hardly a newcomer to the…

Challenges of Political Transition

My piece published here Pakistan’s next general election, due in a few months, will be the first where civilian forces are in charge of…

Dynasties and Clientelism in Pakistan

THE hallmark of Pakistan’s political elites is their narrow base. A limited number of families have dominated Pakistan’s legislatures since the country’s inception in…

Democracy – the only option

Much has been elaborated on the binding constraints faced by Pakistani democracy. Conventional wisdom suggests that the civil-military imbalance has left little space for…

The task ahead

Published in The News Pakistan has crossed a major milestone last week by achieving a historic consensus on the 18th Amendment with 105 clauses,…

Two years and counting…

My piece published in The News The obvious fallout of the media-government war has been a virtual blackout of what the civilian governments have…

Should we bid farewell to democracy in Pakistan?

Published in The NEWS It is still not too late that PML-N and PPP and the regional parties sit together and agree on the…

Pakistan’s ruling coalition must not splinter

My op-ed piece that was published in the NEWS, Pakistan On these erudite pages, and elsewhere, there has been much ado about the fact…

The myriad voices of Pakistani blogosphere

My first post at Global Voices “Pakistan’s growing blogosphere presents a kaleidoscope of the complex, contradictory developments within the country. The country is in…

The flawed boycott mantra?

Thursday, February 21, 2008 Much has been said on how the election results are a referendum against the policies of General Musharraf. While there…