Cyril Almeida
There is right now a battle being waged for the soul of the Supreme Court.
Updated 22 Sep, 2019 09:30am
Imran has landed himself in an awkward and potentially perilous situation.
Published 15 Sep, 2019 07:08am
As we prepare for the arrival of the next emperor, is there a child in this luckless land of ours to tell us the truth?
Updated 13 Jan, 2019 10:52am
Listen carefully as the fuel and energy crisis suddenly spiked this week and you can hear a slight change in the
Published 06 Jan, 2019 06:32am
If the system is still at war with Nawaz and Zardari, it may not have the bandwidth to take on Imran too.
Updated 30 Dec, 2018 12:06pm
Democracy 2018: forget the quality or the substance, just be grateful you’ve got some semblance of it.
Updated 23 Dec, 2018 11:55am
If the big-picture politics stuff is familiar, there’s one big difference this time round: the court.
Updated 16 Dec, 2018 12:40pm
As the government stumbles from crisis to crisis it’s increasingly hard to figure out what this was and is all about.
Updated 09 Dec, 2018 07:45am
Another historic fiasco is in the making with the IK-Asad Umar combo as PM and FM.
Published 02 Dec, 2018 07:01am
The tyranny of numbers quickly asserted itself and then it didn’t matter what Imran thought before.
Updated 25 Nov, 2018 07:31am
PTI turned the political volume to maximum for several years and are struggling to turn it down to a reasonable level.
Updated 18 Nov, 2018 07:26am
The big question, seemingly: will it stick? But if it won’t stick, then what’s the point in doing all of this?
Published 11 Nov, 2018 07:03am
The extremist in the ascendant is also linked to what’s happened to the country.
Updated 05 Nov, 2018 12:56pm
What thrills the PTI base doesn’t mean it works on the national stage.
Updated 29 Oct, 2018 03:06pm
The next nine months will not be pretty for the PTI fiscally. Which could trigger Imran to do something reckless to
Published 23 Sep, 2018 06:40am
It is fairly obvious: the same methods used to shout down and drown out an opponent can be redirected and used to
Published 16 Sep, 2018 06:35am
Governance is already off-track because Imran has been gallivanting around making wild promises, ruling through optics.
Updated 09 Sep, 2018 03:17pm
Even in an age of pretence, Imran will only be able to hide so long that he wants to be PM more than he wants to fix
Published 02 Sep, 2018 06:57am
Imran is a populist with actual popular appeal.
Published 26 Aug, 2018 07:39am
There’s more good news for Imran. He’s got quite a good opening stretch to look forward to in the kind of stuff...
Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:20am
