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Nateeja WOHI Ho Ga

March 10th by Abbas Athar.
Abbas Athar is sharing his views regarding Long March and core responsibility will remain fix with Shahbaz Sharif if anyone hurt. He is of the view that our history is ...

The new political landscape [English]

August 28th by Talat Masood.
It was no surprise that the coalition between the PPP and the PMLN broke up so soon. It is extremely difficult to manage grand coalitions that comprise major rival parties ...

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth [English]

August 27th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
YUSUF Abdullah Haroon, a dexterous man, an elusive friend I have known ever since I can remember, and his charming supportive wife Pasha, came for lunch. We have both seen ...

Happy independence [English]

August 14th by Nasim Zehra.
Let us take flight from our fears and dry those tears. As we enter the 62nd year of our collective national existence, we are about to achieve a ...

A decisive moment [English]

August 12th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
No matter how you define or interpret the decision of the two major political parties and their smaller allies to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, it is going to be a ...

The Other column: Designer Ps and Vs [English]

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 ...

The pursuers and the prey [English]

August 10th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
AT play: Our insecure elected and unelected political players, some corrupt to the core. The aim: Dependent upon the contours of their overflowing pockets, they shoot at half-cock. The beneficiaries: ...

In fairness to the ISI [English]

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 ...

Here’s to crossed fingers [English]

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 ...

The brutalising laws [English]

August 3rd by Kunwar Idris.
“AFTER the elections faces have changed but not policies” is the commonly held, and freely expressed, opinion about the PPP government. One lets it pass for it is substantially true. The ...

Belling the cat [English]

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 ...