28th February, 2013
Failure of the war
IT is ‘APC’ season again. Karachi residents associate the acronym with armoured personnel carriers that contain and occasionally protect besieged policemen.
15th February, 2013
No longer status quo
SO the Swiss letter affair is over, with barely a blip appearing on the national political radar.
15th January, 2013
Deferred implosion?
THE massacre of Hazaras has bored through the shock absorbers that we refer to as either resilience or apathy. Too late as usual.
20th February, 2012
Crises within the crisis
THE All-Party Conference was a colonial-era tool that emerged at a time when political parties of the subcontinent did not have an institutionalised mechanism for interaction and were governed through Westminster Parliament.
9th February, 2011
Karachi: The great work
Nigredo: Blackening, putrefaction, dissolution The flow of effluence into Lyari river where women congregated with their matkas; the child on the street with two…