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    Can the courts shake off the government’s vice-like grip?Opinion
    Can the courts shake off the government’s vice-like grip?

    There is right now a battle being waged for the soul of the Supreme Court.

    23 Sept 2019 12:11 AM IST

    View from Pakistan: Still a hybrid regime, with Imran on a sticky wicketOpinion
    View from Pakistan: Still a hybrid regime, with Imran on a sticky...

    A lot has already gone wrong and the stuff that has gone wrong is obvious for two reasons.

    16 Sept 2019 6:07 AM IST

    Although Pakistan is not a contracting party, we can still glean from this that the determinants of naturalisation in any given protracted situation are less legal than economic, social, cultural or racial.Opinion
    No one here to say the emperor has no clothes

    The tales are many but they shall have to wait until after retirement and perhaps never be told.

    14 Jan 2019 12:04 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the citizens of both countries want peace and it is just the leadership which needs to be on the same page. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Energy crisis leaves Imran govt cornered

    The PPP and PML-N have been cleverer in their relentless focus on Imran, but PPP and N-League attacks are hardly going...

    7 Jan 2019 1:10 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (PTI),Opinion
    Is Pakistan headed for consolidation or a crash?

    The project to install Imran was rooted in the attempts to oust Nawaz and Zardari.

    31 Dec 2018 3:08 AM IST

    Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Imran 2018 & Nawaz in '90: The difference is the court

    The corruption and smash-and-grab would come in the second term, but the first dismissal was also premised on...

    17 Dec 2018 12:19 AM IST

    Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Afghanisation' of Pak politics: The greatest head-scratcher

    The Pakistani state doesn't want India in Afghanistan because it fears encirclement or whatever.

    10 Dec 2018 12:11 AM IST

    Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)Opinion
    PM-FM combo in Pak another fiasco in the making

    The N-League was different, or so folk thought.

    3 Dec 2018 12:56 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    View from Pakistan: After failing its 90-day mark, PTI must focus on...

    The gap between what is pledged and what is delivered is always large, that's just the way of politics.

    19 Nov 2018 2:51 AM IST

    Although Pakistan is not a contracting party, we can still glean from this that the determinants of naturalisation in any given protracted situation are less legal than economic, social, cultural or racial.Opinion
    Pakistan in midst of 3rd phase in its history

    There is no authoritative tome on that phase because we haven't produced a world-class historian or political scientist...

    5 Nov 2018 12:10 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Imran's instincts are dragging Pakistan to a dangerous place

    Imran has roared his disapproval and shouted his condemnation into every camera he's found and in every forum he's ever...

    29 Oct 2018 12:38 AM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Imran Khan's 3 challenges

    Three big things and all spelling some kind of danger for the PTI.

    24 Sept 2018 12:14 AM IST

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