Things added in February, 2009
February 27th by Shafqat Mahmood.
It is unfolding like the chronicle of a death foretold. The decision to disqualify the Sharif brothers is the beginning of the end of another sad episode of Pakistan’s democracy.
It ...
February 27th by Dr. Masooda Bano.
The Supreme Court decision to bar Sharif brothers from holding a public office is by all interpretations bad news for Pakistan. The public acceptability of the decision is bound to ...
February 27th by Ayaz Amir.
The Pakistani nation has been guilty of many follies. We’ve made wrong decisions and have had to live with the consequences. But Asif Ali Zardari was not a choice the ...
February 26th by Kamila Hyat.
It is a telling testimony to the plight of Pakistan that a man such as Maulana Sufi Muhammad Khan, who broke away from the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1989 to form his ...
February 26th by Ikram Sehgal.
Months of intense pressure by the Pakistan Army on Maulana Fazlullah resulted in considerable collateral damage to his organization but also dislocation of thousands of local population and loss of ...
February 26th by Shireen M Mazari.
It certainly did not take Holbrooke long to reveal his arrogant ignorance about Pakistan. Hysterical over the Swat agreement – clearly it undermines the US efforts to expand the destabilisation ...
February 25th by Nasim Zehra.
Multiple outcome of the implementation of the Malakand Peace Agreement between Sufi Muhammad and the government is unfolding before us. It ranges from beginnings of peace in violence-wrecked Swat to ...
February 25th by Talat Masood.
President Zardari's official visit to China once again brings into focus the importance of this relationship for Pakistan. China's contribution has been significant in Pakistan's defence and industrial capability. Most ...
February 25th by Dr. A Q Khan.
Pictures of the ignominious defeat and surrender of the Pakistan Army on 16th December, 1971 in Dacca is something I would like to erase from my memory.
Yaade maazi azaab he ...
February 25th by Anjum Niaz.
By now you must know that 70 American military "advisers and technical specialists" are on the ground secretly training the Pakistan Army to kill Al-Qaeda and Taliban. The CIA has ...
February 24th by Mosharraf Zaidi.
There is something schizophrenic about the manner in which Pakistan is being governed. The government signs peace deals with murderous gangs in Swat with its left hand, and then forces ...
February 23rd by Roedad Khan.
With General Musharraf’s exit, we thought we had reached the summit. Alas! The ascent of one ridge simply revealed the next daunting challenge. Mr Jinnah could not have foreseen the ...
February 23rd by Zaffar Abbas.
It’s not the endgame. Perhaps it cannot even be categorised as the beginning of the end. But the powerful salvo fired by a highly frustrated Nawaz Sharif towards Islamabad may ...
February 23rd by Kunwar Idris.
A day after President Zardari conceded in an interview with an American television channel that the Taliban had established their presence across large swathes of Pakistan, the government of the ...
February 23rd by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
KARACHI, this increasingly ravaged city, has a dire history of the conversion of amenity plots to commercial and residential use.
Virtually every ‘ruler’ or administrator has left his mark on ...
February 23rd by Kamal Siddiqi.
The deal between the government and the Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi has drawn a variety of responses from within the country and abroad. Stakeholders have welcomed the move in some quarters while ...
February 23rd by Rubina Saigol.
Part I
Religious fundamentalist movements of all shades and hues have gripped large parts of the world and have posed a threat to the prevalent political, economic and social systems. While ...
February 21st by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
Maulana Sufi Mohammad has once again been tasked to perform a familiar role. He is trying to persuade militants in Swat to drop their guns and go home. His argument ...
February 21st by Ikram Sehgal.
Within hours of the Mumbai outrage, the Indians made many allegations against Pakistan, particularly targeting the ISI. The Indian penchant for such allegations, and credibility thereof, can be gauged from ...
February 21st by Dr. Masooda Bano.
The agreement between the NWFP government and Maulana Sufi Mohammad of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat, which promises enforcement of 'Nizam-e-Adl Regulation' in Malakand division in return for promises of Maulana Fazlullah and his ...
February 20th by Shafqat Mahmood.
A number of things are coming to a head at the same time. A deal has been signed to enforce a judicial system based on Sharia in Swat. Pakistan has ...
February 20th by Nazir Naji.
Khtra abhi Tala nahi is today's title of Nazir Naji's column. Worthy to read.
February 20th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
So, finally a solution has been found to stop the conflict and violence in Swat with the NWFP government entering into a peace agreement with the Taliban through Sufi Mohammad’s ...
February 20th by Fasi Zaka.
A week ago I went to Peshawar to deliver a seminar at a business school. By the parking lot I had an undergraduate student waiting for me. He stopped me ...
February 20th by Ayaz Amir.
Those armchair warriors -- and there's no shortage of them out here -- who are wringing their hands over the Swat accord should ask themselves whether the government had any ...
