Category / Year 2013
Time to get over East Pakistan syndrome
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: It definitely touched a few raw nerves when Jamaat-i-Islami attempted to get a resolution passed in the National Assembly, condemning the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah in…
PTI in disarray as Imran enjoys his seclusion
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The ‘new Pakistan’ that Imran Khan promised us in the last election is yet to make its mark – as far as the National Assembly is concerned. Except…
Who will speak for the hoi polloi? View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The very notion of tabling a resolution in the National Assembly on poverty alleviation seemed bizarre. As if anybody would say ‘NO’ to it and that mere words…
Old-style Jiyala rhetoric View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: PPP’s Shazia Marri spoke on everything that was wrong with the PML (N) government, except for the topic that she was supposed to speak on – the ever-increasing…
View from the gallery Imran Khan wags the terrorism elephant
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The Imran Khan show outside the Parliament against the US drones strikes was much more thought provoking, if not entertaining, than the drab proceedings inside the Parliament. It…
Jatt da Kharaak’ after two ominous dates of retirement
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: Jamshed Dasti’s attempt to introduce an amendment in the Constitution was anything but benign. On the surface it seemed as just another bill but the devil was in the…
PTI and PML-N unanimous on Taliban but what about others?
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: Time has come for the PTI and PML-N to either merge together or at least become coalition partners in a national government. Reason: The two political parties, who…
Good cops Dar, Pervaiz bail out the bad cop View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: It did not have to be this way. That the opposition had to finally summon the prime minister before the National Assembly to explain the government conduct showed…
View from the Gallery With malice towards one and all, stopping the one-man show
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The standoff in the Senate persists as the opposition continues with its mock proceedings in the public while the government also managed to have enough members in the House…
View from the Gallery A show never seen in Parliament, humiliating, but for whom
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: It was a rare scene nobody from our Press Gallery veterans had even seen or heard. The Senate opposition created history by having a mock public session in…
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