A second coming

Cyril Almeida reviews the politics and the rule of Pakistan Peoples Party as the government's completes five year of its tenure

In hindsight, it is clear as day, viginti/viginti.
Once the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had won the most number of seats in the 2008 general…

One-stop shop for all ills

One thing Justice Chaudhry is not lacking in is courage, although there are excesses sometimes.

The daughter of the nation

The point the Taliban wanted to make by killing her had backfired. Malala had defied them a second time.

A textbook case

In Pakistan, school textbooks have been criticised for attempting to militarise students by glorifying war and martyrdom.

Looking in all directions

The PMLN’strack record shows that it has little appetite for any restructuring of the existing federal system.

State of intelligence

Baloch separatists are now so visible and strong that now they can force any town to close down whenever they want.

Mob rule

To many, mob violence appears to be a ‘rural’ phenomenon, mostly involving ‘illiterate rustics’.

Democracy

Many political analysts agree to the extent that the SC verdict has “invented” a new mechanism to oust a government.

Thou shalt not judge

In between the accusations of impropriety against Iftikhar and the fall of outgoing prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the judges also scrutinise the role and ethics of the media and review, reject and bin a ruling by the Speaker of the National Assembly.