Challenges for the PML-N
In early June, the PML-N completed one year in office and presented its second budget before the Parliament. Both these events were overshadowed by…
A risky transition?
For The News on Sunday Only a democratic dispensation that enjoys people’s mandate will be able to handle the disastrous energy crisis, the spillover…
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…
Rescuing the Pakistani state
Pakistani, and by extension the global media, are regurgitating tiresome cliches about corruption without talking about reforming state institutions. For instance, not a single…
The Indic civilisation
By Ishtiaq Ahmed Today’s article coincides with India’s declaration as a republic in 1950. The civilisational roots of modern India are always worth discussing,…