Things categorized as 'Ejaz Haider'
March 21st by Ejaz Haider.
If politics has to carry on, the political sovereign must create a legal sovereign and having created it submit to it because that is the only way for politics to ...
March 17th by Ejaz Haider.
The army too is skating on thin ice. It has to be careful about how it approaches the actors to avoid getting caught in the vortex. Essentially, its strategy would ...
March 15th by Ejaz Haider.
Today the PPP stands more bruised than at any time since its conception. There is in fact double-whammy here. So remarkably stupid has the man with the perpetual smile been ...
March 13th by Ejaz Haider.
What Kayani can do is to try and get the prime minister to signal to Zardari that the current confrontation is not sustainable; that some compromise formula needs to be ...
March 12th by Ejaz Haider.
The essence of strategy is to do the unexpected. Restore Iftikhar Chaudhry (no need to argue that he is deeply politicised; that’s a reality but public perception is different); appeal ...
November 11th by Ejaz Haider.
Forgive my lack of politeness but sometimes it serves to get right to the point. The government should immediately relieve Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar of his current portfolio.
Mr Mukhtar is a ...
September 9th by Ejaz Haider.
On the shrink’s couch, Brutus Thornapple, when asked about how he is feeling, says he is feeling more and more like less and less. That sums me up also.
But definitely ...
August 18th by Ejaz Haider.
Mark Twain it was who said “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t”. Bacon quoted a jesting Pontius Pilate ...
August 11th by Ejaz Haider.
The gentleman with the perpetual frown is today the knight fighting for the cause of the judges. Yesterday, he had ordered his shock troops to storm the Supreme Court and ...
August 7th by Ejaz Haider.
The simmering political cauldron has begun hissing again and this time threatens to boil over. Consider.
Mr Asif Ali Zardari’s acceptance “in principle” that the National Assembly will move an impeachment ...
August 5th by Ejaz Haider.
The real attraction for India of its civilian nuclear deal with the United States is the acknowledgement that the former is an emerging power and an essential partner of ...
August 4th by Ejaz Haider.
Bazaar buzz in Kot Gai is that Mr BM, the gentleman currently dwelling in some craggy mountain redoubt in the area, is planning to introduce what is being described as ...
August 2nd by Ejaz Haider.
The Americans have decided to play hardball with Pakistan. See the chronology of events:
July 7: A bomb outside the Indian embassy in Kabul kills some 60 people including India’s defence ...
