Adil Najam Once again (here, here and here) the situation is tense around the Lal Masjid in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. More tense than it has been before. So tense, in fact, that it seems like a real battle this time. Fire has been exchanged, one soldier of the Pakistan Rangers has been killed and a […]

Adil Najam and Owais Mughal Regular readers might have noticed that ‘something happened’ to our two side columns yesterday. Essentially, a lot of the material about past posts disappeared. You might also have noticed that we have been having ‘overload’ outages on the page (these are the equivalent of internet load-shedding, I guess; we have […]

Adil Najam Pakistan seems to be in a whole new phase of ‘politics by References.’ Gen. Musharraf set the tone for what seems to be an emerging fashion with his now notorious Reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Then it was the MQM members of the National Assembly moving their reference against Imran Khan for […]