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Governance — from bad to worse

July 6th by Kamal Siddiqi.
Every day, without fail, public transport buses without any route permits ply on some of Karachi’s most prestigious roads. These buses, which come from as far away as Malir and ...

Aik Masoom Si Pakistani Khawahish [Urdu]

September 18th by Abdul Qadir Hassan. %
Abdul Qadir Hassan seems disturb when he sees challenges facing by common Pakistani. He is seeing sucidies due to hunger, due to joblessness and where as our leaders are on ...

Rome May Rome Ki Tarah Rahain [Urdu]

September 18th by Javed Chaudhry. 2
Javed Ch in todays column praising President Zardari's adopting "Saadge" in foriegn trips, specifically UK trip. However, Javed ch sees double standard in government policy towards "Saadge" and he mentioned ...

America say Jung Mumkin Nahi [Urdu]

September 13th by Talat Hussain. 2
Everyone is praising Army Chief for his bold statement but Talat Hussain, our columnist taking is an other way. According to him, this statement had not to come from Army ...

For justice & democracy [English]

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. ...

Under the ISI’s shadow [English]

August 3rd by Ghazi Salahuddin.
Whatever else the ISI may be able to do, with its fearful capacity to pull off clandestine projects, it does not seem to have the power to perk up Prime ...

Will Musharraf strike again? [English]

August 2nd by Mohammad Waseem.
IN 1999-2000 Gen Musharraf launched an institutional war against the legislature and judiciary, and also worked to decimate the executive. All the three wings of the state took an enormous ...

PPP barely muddling through [English]

August 1st by Shafqat Mahmood.
The Pakistan People's Party has no shortage of enemies but it also has a strong propensity to self-destruct. The Munir Niazi couplet that, "the people of the city were cruel ...

Monetary policy measures — some thoughts [English]

August 1st by Meekal Aziz Ahmed.
The State Bank's (SBP) recent actions to tighten monetary policy, while correct, betray a sense of panic. It seems to be a desperate attempt by the central ...

A failed civilian coup [English]

July 31st by Ikram Sehgal. %
Timed to go into effect before the prime minister reached the US, the bizarre government notification at nine pm on July 26, putting both the ISI and the IB under ...

The ISI flip-flop

July 30th by Nasim Zehra.
Prior to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's departure for the US, a detailed meeting on Pakistan-US relations covering security matters was at the Prime Minister's House and it was attended ...