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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

After Nawaz, 2 real options: Which one will the boys' take?

The mystery of why the system wants Nawaz out makes it all the more likely Nawaz is politically a dead man walking.

19 March 2018 6:44 AM IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

View from Pakistan: The Senate shenanigans

The N-League had an opportunity to project strength and confidence, a nice little fillip going into the campaign season...

12 March 2018 12:51 AM IST

View from Pakistan: Build-up to Pak polls - Wild, woolly, wacky,...

In squeezing Nawaz, the court may anger the N-League base and that anger may carry the party to an electoral victory.

5 March 2018 12:18 AM IST

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Nawaz Sharif, forgetting this adage, lashed out at the judiciary and the military in a white-hot rage, and is now paying the price.

View from Pakistan: US squeezes Pakistan generals, and vice-versa

If the N-League had a clue what was coming next, they would have gone with Gullu Butt-types as candidates.

26 Feb 2018 2:22 AM IST

Pakistan Tehreek-i-insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. (Photo: AFP)

View from Pakistan: Does Imran not know how to win?

Unless Nawaz barnstorming the country like Imran is considered a change.

19 Feb 2018 12:37 AM IST

The report said some faculty members investigating the killing pressured students to support the blasphemy allegations because of Khans past criticism of the university. (Photo: Facebook)

View from Pakistan: Faizabad vs the Mardan lynching

Between the wretchedness in Faizabad and the awfulness in Mardan, a similar dismal future awaits.

12 Feb 2018 12:57 AM IST

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Nawaz Sharif, forgetting this adage, lashed out at the judiciary and the military in a white-hot rage, and is now paying the price.

Courts, military, Pak netas: Mess is getting worse

Two military-court constitutional amendments in two-and-a-quarter years settled that debate.

5 Feb 2018 12:34 AM IST

It was what appeared to have been done to her. And it was the troubling memory of something vaguely similar having floated out, miasma-like, from Kasur in the recent past.(Photo: AFP)

Kasur case: The outrage machine is here to stay

Is that is that a tiny body, a little girl, tossed into the garbage and lying on a pile of rubble? The stomach churns...

29 Jan 2018 1:50 AM IST

View from Pakistan: Prospect of a hung House is growing in Pakistan

Nawaz could win again, but to actually win he needs to win big in Punjab.

22 Jan 2018 12:09 AM IST

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Nawaz Sharif, forgetting this adage, lashed out at the judiciary and the military in a white-hot rage, and is now paying the price.

In Pak, is this the beginning of the end?

Warraich is worth listening to carefully because he's got it right pretty much every step of the way over the last year...

15 Jan 2018 1:44 AM IST

Hanadis lust for revenge reportedly comes from the fact that Al Qaeda and ISIS have together murdered two of her husbands, her father and three brothers since 2003. (Photo: Facebook)

The Haqqani dilemma

What are the Haqqanis worth to you, Pakistan? Or put more bluntly, how much pain is Pakistan willing to suffer to hang...

8 Jan 2018 3:12 AM IST

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Nawaz Sharif, forgetting this adage, lashed out at the judiciary and the military in a white-hot rage, and is now paying the price.

The most uncertain year for Pak is here

The more Nawaz tries to force his way back into the system, the greater the resistance will be.

1 Jan 2018 1:34 AM IST