Ayaz Amir
AN all too temporary goodbye I hope because anything on permanent lines, as I told my masters in Dawn, would break ...
Published 21 Dec, 2007 12:00am
OR rather reinventing the nation’s politics, for the old directions are dead, heaped up like fossils of an age gone...
Published 14 Dec, 2007 12:00am
WHEN Pervaiz Elahi who, judging by his anti-PPP tirades, seems to be getting more desperate by the hour, arrived in...
Published 07 Dec, 2007 12:00am
OUR history, sad and comic by turns, is full of might-have-beens. Pervez Musharraf could have been the golden boy of...
Published 30 Nov, 2007 12:00am
OUR tin-clad Generalissimo may not be blessed in his own talent or powers (if he were he wouldn’t be in the mess he...
Published 23 Nov, 2007 12:00am
“WHEN the nation is about to be declared a failed state,” asks embattled Pervez Musharraf, “tell me ...
Published 16 Nov, 2007 12:00am
THIS is unsustainable and cannot last. You can’t mock the heavens and think there will be nothing to pay for it....
Published 09 Nov, 2007 12:00am
NOT an individual’s fate but the nation’s because if we get it wrong this time, and take the wrong turning, the gods...
Published 02 Nov, 2007 12:00am
THE anti-Musharraf movement in full bloom this summer has passed. The opposition parties fluffed it or our stars ...
Published 26 Oct, 2007 12:00am
CARPING and cynicism aside — and we are good at both — this is proving to be a smooth change: from the old to...
Published 19 Oct, 2007 12:00am
IN better-off countries than ours battlefield casualties matter. When soldiers die explanations have to be offered. ...
Published 12 Oct, 2007 12:00am
“Be patient now, my soul; thou hast endured much worse than this.” –– Odysseus UNTIL now I never truly grasped the...
Published 05 Oct, 2007 12:00am
AIK dhaka aur, comes a cry from afar, for the towers of authoritarianism are tottering, the halls of government are...
Published 28 Sep, 2007 12:00am
“IF elected for second term as president, General Pervez Musharraf will (step down as army chief).” The Supreme ...
Published 21 Sep, 2007 12:00am
THE events of Sept 10, leading to Nawaz Sharif’s deportation to Saudi Arabia, have handed Pervez Musharraf his first...
Published 14 Sep, 2007 12:00am
THINGS are becoming topsy-turvy, the abnormal and bizarre becoming everyday reality. Our nuke capability was ...
Published 07 Sep, 2007 12:00am
FROM the sublimity of the lawyers’ movement (and don’t tell me it didn’t have a touch of the heroic about it) we are...
Published 31 Aug, 2007 12:00am
THEY go screaming and kicking even when it is clear to all but themselves that their time is up and they have...
Published 24 Aug, 2007 12:00am
THE war the Pakistan army is being made to fight in the two Waziristans is not our war. It is a war calibrated to an...
Published 17 Aug, 2007 12:00am
EMERGENCY, martial law, election in uniform, election from these assemblies, no return of Nawaz Sharif, a deal with...
Published 10 Aug, 2007 12:00am