Rifaat Hamid Ghani
WHETHER the completion of this government’s tenure is indeed a reinforcement of the democratic process will only be known if it is voted out when national elections are held.
Published 16 Apr, 2012 12:10am
IT is a pity the government was so evasive of the Swiss case and fought shy of uncapping it. For the resultant...
Published 15 Jun, 2010 12:00am
IT is not possible to think of the 18th Amend- ment without thinking of the precedents and traditions it follows....
Published 25 Apr, 2010 12:00am
WE cannot wish away fixations in our neurotic polity (which also features some rather outstanding psychopaths and...
Published 08 Mar, 2010 12:00am
ONE should make allowances for the PPP leadership. Not only was the more operative co-chairman long cut off from the...
Published 18 Jan, 2010 12:00am
RECENTLY, freedom of speech has been speaking much of past lies and deceptions in Pakistan`s civil and military...
Published 12 Oct, 2009 12:00am
LAHORE, Oct 11 Fancied dark-bay colt Northern Crown lived up to his top breeding credentials powering to victory in...
Published 12 Oct, 2009 12:00am
WHY are the blasphemy laws still on the book? Parliament is sovereign; there is official and public consensus that ...
Published 21 Aug, 2009 12:00am
THE PPP is irrefutably the federal leader party-wise and irrefutably democratically elected, insofar as elections...
Published 29 Jul, 2009 12:00am
IT is of course politically incorrect to say it is not our war. Factually correct is that we make it more and more...
Published 18 Jul, 2009 12:00am
PERHAPS the most worrisome aspect of any crisis in Pakistan is the fact that the government does not inspire enough...
Published 11 May, 2009 12:00am
The ISI syndrome. Not only do Pakistan`s politicians have it, Americans have it too. Difficulties in the`quash...
Published 20 Apr, 2009 12:00am
WHEN considering the long march we should think not just in terms of kilometres from Lahore to the federal capital...
Published 14 Mar, 2009 12:00am
THAT terrorism is a political tool is obvious. Yet, engulfed by outrage at the terrorist`s inhumanity, it is easy to...
Published 05 Jan, 2009 12:00am
IT should have been a founding anniversary that vindicated. But vindicating the democratic transition into the PPP`s...
Published 15 Dec, 2008 12:00am
OUTSTANDING in the mess the gentleman who just vacated the president`s office left is the ambivalence of what lies...
Published 02 Sep, 2008 12:00am
AT the penultimate moment, Gen (retd) Musharraf stepped down. It is true that he has spared us much agonising by...
Published 22 Aug, 2008 12:00am
BENAZIR Bhutto`s elimination from the scene has made an enormous political difference in that we no longer know ...
Published 04 Feb, 2008 12:00am
IF PAKISTANIS ask what aborts their democratic governments, they might ask even more pertinently what impels their...
Published 15 Dec, 2003 12:00am
