Adil Najam and Owais Mughal

Enemies of Pakistan are at it again; killing innocent Pakistanis in their murderous zeal. Murder and mayhem by terrorists has hit the city of Lahore second time in four days. This time in the form of a series of bomb blasts (at leastseven  blasts today, according to some reports, [...]

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The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.

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As we wrote at the end of last year - whilst naming the Pakistani Policeman as ATP’s Pakistan Person of the Year 2009 - “the faces that represent the reality of Pakistan in 2009 more than any other, are the faces of the Pakistani police… All too often in this murderous year, the Pakistani [...]

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In both Faisalabad and Dera Ismail Khan, religious zealots turned Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations violent leaving at least seven dead and more than thirty injured. The irony, and sheer lunacy, of this criminal violence is that there are those amongst us who are so convinced that they and they alone are the “best” Muslims of [...]

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Not surprisingly, Pakistan politics remains a mess.
The President remains the master of brinksmanship. Instead of doing the right thing to begin with, he pushes crises to the edge and then, just in the nick of time takes a U-turn. The judiciary keeps testing the limits of its own power and at least a few [...]

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UPDATE: The Prime Minister has announced the withdrawl of the President’s judicial notifications!
Hats off to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani for political theatre of the highest caliber. And I mean that as a compliment.

On Monday he played the loyal Prime Minister defending his President, attacking the opposition, and hinting at a parliamentary reigning [...]