Things categorized as 'Kamila Hyat'
September 17th by Kamila Hyat.
So far in 2009, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, 50 million acres of farmland has been sold or negotiated for sale or lease. More deals are due ...
September 17th by Kamila Hyat.
So far in 2009, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, 50 million acres of farmland has been sold or negotiated for sale or lease. More deals are due ...
September 10th by Kamila Hyat.
According to news accounts scores of young men and boys – some no older than seven or eight years old – have been taken into custody in Swat from militant ...
September 10th by Kamila Hyat.
According to news accounts scores of young men and boys – some no older than seven or eight years old – have been taken into custody in Swat from militant ...
August 13th by Kamila Hyat.
There have been many who have celebrated the death of Baitullah Mehsud – the man who had come to symbolise militancy and destruction in Pakistan. He will forever be associated ...
August 6th by Kamila Hyat.
The latest incident of extremist mob violence, this time in a village near the town of Gojra, is a reflection of the anarchy, and the barbarity, we are spiralling towards.
It ...
July 9th by Kamila Hyat.
Through the Musharraf years, the slogan 'Sab sey pehley Pakistan' or 'Pakistan first' could be heard in many places.
The former president himself flung it about on every occasion, insisting that ...
July 3rd by Kamila Hyat.
Sleep deprivation is an established form of torture. It has been used extensively at Guantanamo Bay and other equally hellish centres of detention around the world.
Amnesty International terms "prolonged ...
June 26th by Kamila Hyat.
Like some bizarre recipe concocted by a crazed chef, the issue of hatred for the US and its self-centred policies has become almost inextricably mixed up with that of extremism.
The ...
June 18th by Kamila Hyat.
At forums everywhere, most notably since President Barack Obama made his speech early this month to Muslims around the world from Cairo, appealing for a new era of cooperation, there ...
June 11th by Kamila Hyat.
The ISPR has stated the victory over the Taliban would not be complete until the top leadership was defeated.
This of course makes sense. The dramatic story of Sri Lanka's Tamil ...
June 4th by Kamila Hyat.
The battle for Swat seems to be reaching its final stages, at least in terms of the immediate fighting. Mingora is out of militant hands; people in the town hope ...
May 28th by Kamila Hyat.
The violent opposition in Sindh to the presence of IDPs in the province is a shocking reminder of the divisions that have effectively fractured society.
The MQM and Sindhi nationalist parties ...
April 9th by Kamila Hyat.
It is astonishing how many people – particularly professionals who are confident they can get a job overseas – are planning to leave the country, or give the question of ...
April 2nd by Kamila Hyat.
In the new mood of optimism that followed the restoration of the judges, many had hoped the momentum built up would be carried forward; that a new, brighter chapter would ...
March 19th by Kamila Hyat.
The many who had advised deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to reach some sort of "deal" or "compromise" following the 2008 polls have reason to reconsider their words.
Though in ...
March 12th by Kamila Hyat.
We find ourselves once more in chaos; the place on the brink where we precariously stand is one we have occupied before.
There is a growing sense that disaster lurks ...
March 6th by Kamila Hyat.
In the days before the Supreme Court delivered its widely expected verdict, disqualifying Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, tensions ran high in the PML-N camp.
The possibility that the apex court may ...
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 19th by Kamila Hyat.
As waiters at the Cuckoo's Den café in Lahore, breathtakingly located on the rooftop of an old 'haveli' a stone's throw from the majestic Badshahi Mosque and Lahore Fort, scurried ...
February 12th by Kamila Hyat.
Almost a year after the PPP government took charge in Islamabad, hundreds of people who have been missing in the country for years have still to be located.
Asif Ali Zardari, ...
November 20th by Kamila Hyat.
There was a moment at the Alhamra Cultural Complex, venue of the ongoing World Performing Arts Festival, which underscored the dichotomy that has today become a distinguishing feature of our ...
November 13th by Kamila Hyat.
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light," Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had famously urged in one of his finest works. The people of Pakistan have raged for years, battling ...
October 30th by Kamila Hyat.
"A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away…" begins the dramatic opening sequence to George Lucas's epic film, 'Star Wars', which continues to enrapture audiences over thirty years ...
October 24th by Kamila Hyat.
If one wasn't living in it, the situation in Pakistan would seem absurd, almost comical – something like a scenario from the sitcom 'Fawlty Towers' surreally combined with a chapter ...
