Babar Sattar
THE National Internal Security Policy (NISP) is not based on rocket science. But does it need to be? True, the ...
Published 03 Mar, 2014 07:05am
WHY is it that those who support enforcement of a regressive brand of Sharia, those who endorse a worldview that...
Published 24 Feb, 2014 07:59am
THE leaders in Pakistan seem possessed by magic. Is there another logical explanation for the deliberate effort of...
Published 17 Feb, 2014 07:23am
IS enforcement of a certain conception of Sharia the TTP’s precondition for peace or that of its apologists who...
Published 10 Feb, 2014 07:00am
ONCE upon a time, four wise men met with recalcitrant TTP leaders. Impressed by the merit of their arguments,...
Published 03 Feb, 2014 07:36am
WHAT do you do when the killers say that they will kill you if you say that they are killers? Should you sell your...
Published 27 Jan, 2014 07:54am
BACK in Cadet College Hasanabdal, you knew as a 12-year old that you never named names. If you succeeded as a team,...
Published 20 Jan, 2014 07:19am
Ours is the country where the 15-year old Aitezaz Hussain was left to engage the suicide bomber heading to blow up a...
Published 13 Jan, 2014 07:39am
THE last few days suggest that at least one form of honour is still intact around here: the honour among thieves....
Published 06 Jan, 2014 07:49am
IF we can change one thing about Pakistan in 2014 can that please be our mindset?
Can we cure ourselves of the...
Published 30 Dec, 2013 07:11am
OUR National Assembly has condemned Abdul Quader Molla’s execution (Bengali citizen, Bengali political leader,...
Published 23 Dec, 2013 07:45am
IT is not easy succeeding someone as polarising as Iftikhar Chaudhry. Those who love him would want Chief Justice...
Published 16 Dec, 2013 07:18am
IT is ungracious to take pot shots at someone walking into the sunset. But to refuse to take stock of the ...
Published 09 Dec, 2013 07:56am
THE much-anticipated change of guard at the Supreme Court brings with it hope and fresh expectation. The idealism ...
Published 02 Dec, 2013 08:11am
WE are a strange people. We welcomed Musharraf as a saviour in 1999. He did what most rulers do: focused solely on...
Published 25 Nov, 2013 07:01am
GETTING mad at Munawar Hasan for attempting to subvert the resolve of our soldiers to fight the Tehreek-i-Taliban...
Published 18 Nov, 2013 06:53am
THE grand narrative hatched by our elected representatives in confronting the challenge of terrorism is this: the...
Published 11 Nov, 2013 07:15am
WE get readily inflamed on being accused of being a failed state or failing society. But can we fathom the reasons ...
Published 04 Nov, 2013 07:34am
HOW will history judge Gen Kayani? Will he be remembered as a great army chief who was the soldiers’ soldier and...
Published 28 Oct, 2013 07:43am
MALCOLM Gladwell in his latest book David and Goliath writes about the relevance of the inverted U-curve to ...
Published 21 Oct, 2013 06:59am
