INTOLERANCE AND HER CHILDREN
I couldn’t bring myself to write my column last week because of the rage I felt at our Government for censoring the Internet. It wasn’t that blocking Facebook or YouTube had brought life to an end but the sheer stupidity of the exercise coupled with the wider implications of censorship for the citizens of this...
MICROMANAGING PAKISTAN
Richard Holbrooke is back and this time it’s to look at the refugee crisis as a result of the Swat Operation, meet with the folks he needs to, and generally earn his keep. By the looks of it Mr. Holbrooke spends as much time in Pakistan as President Zardari, and definitely much more time than...
BATTLE LINES
There are time to sit on fences and there are times where you need to pick sides, and I think the time has come to pick our sides without any ambiguous grey areas so familiar to Pakistani politics and drawing rooms. Benazir Bhutto’s arrival in Karachi on Thursday and the hundreds of thousands of people...
