Things categorized as 'I A Rehman'
September 3rd by I A Rehman.
The spectre of secularism is haunting the privileged elite of Pakistan, some privileged by birth or status, others by their grading in the realm of belief. Now pollsters have joined ...
August 26th by I A Rehman.
The brutal killing of two young brothers by a mob in Sialkot while some policemen watched the incident without any sign of disapproval has exposed serious flaws in the working ...
August 24th by I A Rehman.
The flood ravage is going to be Pakistan’s dominant concern for quite some time. The threat of fresh devastation by surging waters has not receded and anxiety is increasing that ...
July 6th by I A Rehman.
There has been some welcome news about the most vulnerable of all prisoners in South Asia — the Indians in Pakistani prisons and the Pakistanis in Indian jails — but ...
August 27th by I A Rehman.
Is it possible that Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah and partition should help the subcontinent’s scholars bury the mythology of partition that has been hanging around the South Asian people’s ...
July 23rd by I A Rehman.
That Pakistan has paid dearly for the lack of a democratic political culture is a cliché which is usually left unexplained. Some recent developments have revealed how poor the country’s ...
June 4th by I A Rehman.
ALTHOUGH the targets are quite challenging, the new judicial policy enforced this week should have brought relief to many a bruised soul, and one hopes it is now possible to ...
May 28th by I A Rehman.
IF the decision to launch a military operation in Swat and other parts of the Malakand division was not easy to make, its implementation is proving to be even more ...
April 2nd by I A Rehman.
THE restoration of the Sharif brothers as the custodians of the Punjab durbar should be welcomed by all democratic-minded people. The affair has, however, revealed fault lines in governance that ...
March 23rd by I A Rehman.
The media, specially its electronic component, has received enthusiastic applause for its contribution to the success of the campaign for the restoration of judges. In particular, the media coverage of ...
March 12th by I A Rehman.
The government’s decision to detain lawyers and PML-N activists is most likely to boomerang. The future of Pakistan’s polio-stricken democracy could well be decided over the next seven days and ...
February 12th by I A Rehman.
A FOREIGN observer who claims to know us well said Pakistan had strange rulers. ‘A’ did not know what ‘B’ was saying and ‘B’ did not know what ‘A’ was ...
October 24th by I A Rehman.
WHILE the fight against terrorists continues to cause nightmares Pakistan has run into another menace — the threat of an economic implosion. And the hardest hit by this affliction too ...
October 16th by I A Rehman.
A SERIES of developments in the tribal areas and in Afghanistan over the past couple of weeks has greatly heightened ordinary Pakistani citizens’ anxieties about their future.
And their expectations of ...
September 18th by I A Rehman.
SOMETHING that should have happened long ago has finally come to pass — women working in the media have set up a platform for voicing their concerns. They have also ...
September 11th by I A Rehman.
THE new establishment’s decision not to restore some of the sidelined judges has brought smiles to some faces and disappointment to many more.
Both reactions are bad for democracy’s fresh experiment. ...
September 4th by I A Rehman.
AS if the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s disappearance more than five years ago was not horrifying enough the discovery of her 12-year-old son in a Kabul prison has ...
August 28th by I A Rehman.
ONE of the issues frequently raised by political parties is that the crises of the state and the plight of the people have been aggravated by the failure of political ...
August 21st by I A Rehman.
FEW should have been surprised by Gen Musharraf’s resignation last Monday. The writing on the wall had become clear many days earlier.
The significance of the coalition government’s coup de grâce ...
August 7th by I A Rehman.
WHATEVER the merits of the move to change the address of the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate, the genius behind it earned extra marks for ham-handedness.
But the storm in the media ...
July 31st by I A Rehman.
THE relative quiet with which Balochistan’s militant nationalists had been watching political developments in the country has been broken by Brahmdakh Bugti’s strident call for a sovereign Balochistan.
Before rushing ...
July 24th by I A Rehman.
THE Punjab government’s decision to send a couple of hundred civil servants abroad for study and training is in accord with the public view that the administration urgently needs a ...
