Nadir Hassan

The Pasha-Panetta puzzle

ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, fresh off obtaining his second one-year extension, went to Washington for a meeting ... Published 14 Apr, 2011 06:13am

In memoriam: Zulfikar Bhutto

Photo Courtesy: White Star There are few ways to mark or mourn a person’s death that transcend the merely symbolic.... Published 04 Apr, 2011 08:29am

From oppressed to oppressor

I recently came across a news report about a simmering controversy over textbooks in the Punjab. An Islamiyat... Published 23 Mar, 2011 09:27am

How the PPP fumbles and fails

The PPP is the Kamran Akmal of public relations. Put its representatives behind a microphone and they will flail and... Published 11 Mar, 2011 12:08pm

Hall of shame

For about three days, three years ago Senator Israrullah Zehri was the most reviled person in Pakistan’s liberal... Published 01 Mar, 2011 11:17am

Failing to schmooze at the Karachi LitFest

At one point on the first day of the Karachi Literature Festival, a man came up to me and asked if I was a novelist.... Published 07 Feb, 2011 03:25pm

Banned cricketers only emulated their heroes

For any dead-enders hoping that at least Mohammed Amir would be spared, the final judgment must have come when the... Published 06 Feb, 2011 02:06pm

Banned cricketers only emulated their heroes

-Photo by AP For any dead-enders hoping that at least Mohammed Amir would be spared, the final judgment must have... Published 06 Feb, 2011 09:14am

You say you want a revolution?

There are few things as drearily predictable as Pakistani hacks watching revolutions in progress in other countries... Published 31 Jan, 2011 10:03am

A slippery slope

Photo courtesy: Creative Commons If a newspaper wanted to cover match-fixing, the last person they would ask to... Published 28 Jan, 2011 11:20am

Ten predictions for 2011

Illustration by Faraz Aamer Khan 1. Pervez Musharraf’s decision to enter politics will be vindicated when he is... Published 10 Jan, 2011 01:17pm

The beatification of Benazir

The politician-as-power-crazed-megalomaniac joke rings true because we have been conditioned to accept our elected... Published 27 Dec, 2010 07:14am

A convenient alliance?

To invert Ayub Khan’s phrasing, it is Pakistan’s lot in life to have allies who are masters, not friends. Pakistan... Published 20 Dec, 2010 12:18pm

Was it worth it?

In the spring of 2007, as a 23-year-old afflicted with congenital cowardice, I took on a journalism job in ... Published 08 Dec, 2010 12:40pm

Intolerance of the other

Much of the commentary on the Aasia Bibi case has focused on her likely innocence. This was a women who, by all... Published 22 Nov, 2010 11:26am