Well, the bombshell has finally dropped but is being looked at through various colored glasses. That is to say, the pro Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) conjure up wishful and idealistic notions of indemnity from various clauses of the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision, whereas the anti PML-N hawks say there’s no way former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party is …
THE New York Times ran an editorial yesterday that seemed to suggest that the United States Congress couldn’t be bothered with gun legislation that it “thought” would lead to a gun-free society, in the aftermath of the latest gun violence in Las Vegas in the state of Nevada. Point all you want but as they say in the US,……”Aint happenin'”! …
I can’t help recalling a book in a series on shikaar (hunting) by famous hunter of man-eating tigers Kenneth Anderson titled “The Tiger Roars“! Why? Well the elections in Pakistan of course, in the Punjab province’s capital Lahore in constituency NA-120 (National Assembly-120! And because the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)s election symbol was a tiger and this political party’s closest rival …
By James M. Dorsey In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it comes to buying influence, garnering soft power, and trying to win hearts and minds. It is a battle fought primarily by the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the Gulf’s two megalomaniac states, on European soccer pitches, in the …
