Category / TheSpokesman.pk
A firm Nawaz makes things harder for antagonists
Islamabad: Political brinkmanship seems to be lingering on. Just when we thought the PML(N)-PTI impasse was close to getting resolved the negotiations went two steps backward. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continued…
The captain might lose Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in bid to capture Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: It was an extraordinary development that the prime minister sat in the National Assembly to receive the leader of the Opposition, perhaps for the first time ever, even before the proceedings…
Is yet another money laundering case on the cards?
ISLAMABAD: After taking a harsh beating from PML(N) hawks for three days, the PTI finally managed to put up a sharp defence in the shape of Shafqat Mahmood. Shafqat Mahmood brings…
Nawaz Sharif’s dilemma: To give way to cronies or not
ISLAMABAD: It is amazing how bees get in order when the queen is around. In our case it was Nawaz Sharif who got his worker bees disciplined for a change. The moment…
Demons of instability take fun out of August 14
ISLAMABAD: The Parliament got adjourned emanating painfully confusing signals whether the country was celebrating or mourning its freedom after 67 years. All that brouhaha about derailing of the system, lack of…
Battle lines drawn, gloves off and knives are out
Islamabad: The Parliament seemed to have become irrelevant as the game of political brinkmanship was being played in Lahore where battle lines were drawn, gloves off and the knives were out. Shakespearean,…
Electoral reforms are too serious a business to be left to street goons
ISLAMABAD: Things could not have been messier at the National Assembly as everybody seemed to be talking to everybody else to resolve the PTI-PML(N) impasse. Political parties were in a competition…
Fingers crossed as PTI waits for power genie to pop out of mobocracy
Islamabad: Imran Khan can take the credit that his proposed circus on August 14 – whatever its results – has introduced some humility to the PML(N) leadership. The generally arrogant and…
Thank your stars that you are not the prime minister
Islamabad: “You should thank your stars that you are not the prime minister in today’s Pakistan; you can’t have a moment’s peace during the day and a restful sleep at night; it…
PTI mellows down its rhetoric — is it backtracking?
ISLAMABAD: Just when we expected Imran Khan’s PTI to up the ante in the run-up to its August 14 rally, the party almost staged a U-turn. There was a definite mellowness in…
Search blog
Something went wrong with the twitter. Please check your credentials and twitter username in the twitter settings.