Things categorized as 'Ayesha Siddiqa'
August 21st by Ayesha Siddiqa.
The capital is abuzz with rumours of a minus-one formula. Some are suggesting that there is a minus-three formula. Such destabilising stories were confined to the grapevine until the information ...
July 24th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
Four seemingly different news items over the past 15 days or so caught my attention. Pertaining to the conduct of the civil bureaucracy and the government’s handling of it, these ...
May 29th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
FACEBOOK is a great invention. It allows you to interact with people, without having to meet them, and have discussions. I accidentally got into a discussion with some on my ...
April 27th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
THE outcry these days is that the Taliban are now firmly in our midst. While some believe they will eventually be defeated, others are of the view that the tide ...
April 5th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
As the entire Pakistani nation watches video footage of a 17-years-old girl screaming on their television screens during the process of her torture at the hands of the brutal Taliban ...
April 3rd by Ayesha Siddiqa.
THE students of Jamia Hafsa want nizam-i-adl implemented in the entire country as a way out of the current crisis. They also want Taqi Usmani, their mufti, as chief qazi. ...
March 27th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
Why couldn’t we see our president, like Nicolas Sarkozy, as someone who was well-meaning, despite his scandalous behaviour, he asked. More recently, a Russian friend asked me why Mr Zardari ...
March 20th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
The movement for the restoration of the judiciary makes Pakistani civil society proud of its achievement. It is awesome how ordinary professionals struggled for two years to ensure that a ...
March 13th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
The country is in a state of political, economic and social chaos, leading us to contemplate the question of finding another political alternative, perhaps in the form of a new ...
March 6th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
A question on the lips of most Pakistanis these days is whether the Sharif brothers and their political party – the PML-N – will manage to push back their rival ...
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 6th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
THANK God for parliament where we are beginning to see some accountability of the defence sector. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) under the chairmanship of opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar has ...
October 17th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
IN this day and age when one desperately searches for men of vision, courage and integrity it is such a relief to know of a man like Prof Mushirul Hasan, ...
October 10th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
AS the threat from terrorism increases, Pakistan is more divided than ever in its response to the challenge. There are many who believe that it is not Islamabad’s war but ...
September 26th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
MANY in Pakistan are shocked at the bomb blast outside the Marriott hotel in Islamabad which killed more than 50 people and wounded scores. It has made people nervous about ...
September 19th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
SOMEONE once asked his friend what he would do if a tiger entered his room. The friend replied that whatever had to be done would be done by the tiger, ...
September 12th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
CERTAIN analysts are now happily predicting the onset of a successful transition in the country’s politics. It is argued that Pakistan has now safely started its journey towards democracy, peace ...
September 5th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
ALTHOUGH Pakistan’s attention seems completely diverted towards the upcoming presidential elections, there are other equally important things happening in the country such as the burying alive of two women.
The words ...
August 29th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
TERRORIST attacks are becoming a horrible reality in Pakistan. Things become scarier each time there is an attack involving a sensitive organisation.
Such an attack always raises questions about ...
August 22nd by Ayesha Siddiqa.
PERVEZ Musharraf is now gone and many believe he is history. Perhaps the former military dictator thinks otherwise. Some people argue that the reason he is not leaving the country ...
August 15th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
THESE days there is a great sense of despondency regarding the state of affairs in the country. Even ordinary people ask questions about the viability of the Pakistani state ...
August 8th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
PEOPLE in politically troubled lands often begin to think nostalgically about the idea of a revolution even though they might not have experienced one.
Such a longing indicates the level of ...
August 1st by Ayesha Siddiqa.
August 01, 2008 Friday Rajab 28, 1429
Belling the cat
The crisis of change
New local government — good or bad?
N-accidents on the rise
Belling the cat
By Ayesha Siddiqa
THE government’s decision to place the ...
July 25th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
LAST week I had the pleasure of attending an international conference on peace and sustainable development, courtesy the German Development Agency.
It was highly romantic to listen to papers for a ...
July 18th by Ayesha Siddiqa.
IT seems that the Red Mosque is not going out of the news just yet. There was more bloodshed on July 6 as supporters of the mosque’s former clerics congregated ...
