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Goodbye to some of this	(December 21, 2007)
Reinventing the nation	(December 14, 2007)
Opening fresh wounds	(December 7, 2007)
Tragedy in uniform	(November 30, 2007)
Charlatans, humbugs and a few heroes	(November 23, 2007)
Freedom doesn’t come easy	(November 16, 2007)
Getting away with farce?	(November 9, 2007)
Fate hanging in the balance	(November 2, 2007)
Still time for a salvage mission	(October 26, 2007)
The logjam breaks	(October 19, 2007)
Advantages of a ‘peasant’ army	(October 12, 2007)
Never say die	(October 5, 2007)
One more push, comrades	(September 28, 2007)
Real parrots are less funny	(September 21, 2007)
Reprieve for ‘tinpotism’	(September 14, 2007)
Humour in uniform	(September 7, 2007)
Autumn of the jackals	(August 31, 2007)
Tinpot heroes don’t go that easily	(August 24, 2007)
Fighting someone else’s war	(August 17, 2007)
What price such a liability?	(August 10, 2007)
Movement: Phase Two	(August 3, 2007)
Depart gently into the night	(July 27, 2007)
Their lordships at the bar of history	(July 20, 2007)
London: worth it or a waste of time?	(July 13, 2007)
A drama to beat all dramas	(July 6, 2007)
Storming the redoubts of autocracy	(June 29, 2007)
Options before Musharraf and the nation	(June 22, 2007)
The great betrayal	(June 15, 2007)
Summer of discontent, season of hope	(June 8, 2007)
Aik dhakka aur, one push more	(June 1, 2007)
Must we now learn how to skin?	(May 25, 2007)
The day of the sector commanders	(May 18, 2007)
Stuff of romance, stuff of history	(May 11, 2007)
Thy turn, beloved Punjab	(May 5, 2007)
Reinforcing failure	(April 27, 2007)
Can their lordships too rise to the occasion?	(April 20, 2007)
‘Your one ‘no’ has made you immortal’	(April 13, 2007)
Living in exciting times	(April 6, 2007)
From this turmoil some good must come	(March 30, 2007)
A nation begging to be excused	(March 23, 2007)
Madness and arrogance unspeakable	(March 16, 2007)
A seven-year bang ending in a whimper	(March 9, 2007)
Caught between the Yanks & the Taliban	(March 2, 2007)
Call it the ‘Samjhota’ Express?	(February 23, 2007)
Accumulated habits	(February 16, 2007)
Useful trades	(February 9, 2007)
Fixing world problems	(February 2, 2007)
City without purpose	(January 26, 2007)
The joke now official	(January 19, 2007)
Mother of all jokes	(January 12, 2007)
The choice before Bibi	(January 05, 2007)
A New Year wish	(December 29, 2006)
Spoon of the year award	(December 22, 2006)
Morality not the issue, politics is	(December 15, 2006)
Disconnected subjects	(December 08, 2006)
Is change in the air?	(December 01, 2006)
Yesterday’s battles	(November 24, 2006)
Alas, holy bluff called	(November 17, 2006)
For Bush satellites uncertain times	(November 10, 2006)
Our devil’s bargain	(November 3, 2006)
As a new season approaches	(October 28, 2006)
Islamabad diary: The death of ideas	(October 20, 2006)
Islamabad diary: Miracles can wait	(October 13, 2006)
ISLAMABAD DIARY: Second thoughts	(October 06, 2006)
In the line of embarrassment	(September 29, 2006)
The ordeal of Mullah Zaeef	(September 22, 2006)
War and peace, army style	(September 15, 2006)
The circus of the holy fathers	(September 08, 2006)
Why are the gods angry with us?	(September 01, 2006)
Good riddance to a listless process	(August 25, 2006)
Islamabad diary: Faith knows no religious boundaries	(August 18, 2006)
How many F-16s does Hezbollah have?	(August 11, 2006)
Unintended consequences	(August 4, 2006)
The only doctrine which matters	(July 28, 2006)
Hezbollah and the ummah: sublime and the pathetic	(July 21, 2006)
Puristan or Scam-istan?	(July 14, 2006)
A true summer of discontent	(July 7, 2006)
Cracks in the mirror	(June 30, 2006)
Disquiet in the citadel	(June 23, 2006)
Blame the founding fathers	(June 16, 2006)
Assault on the environment	(June 9, 2006)
Comrade Stalin and the sugar question	(May 26, 2006)
Nervousness in high places	(May 19, 2006)
Haven’t we had enough?	(May 12, 2006)
My Lord the Chief Justice takes notice	(May 5, 2006)
Addressing the real shortage	(April 28, 2006)
As heedless as it can get	(April 21, 2006)
Problems of Pakistani horsemanship	(April 14, 2006)
Even by Punjab’s high standards, unbelievable	(April 7, 2006)
Shining and not-so-shining Pakistan	(March 31, 2006)
‘Moderate’ vs. radical Islam	(March 24, 2006)
Bluster and performance	(March 17, 2006)
Cartoon and other exhaustions	(March 10, 2006)
US alliance: more trouble than it’s worth	(March 3, 2006)
False dawn or beginning of the end?	(February 24, 2006)
The firestorm waiting to erupt	(February 17, 2006)
Denmark: wrong target	(February 11, 2006)
The language America understands	(February 6, 2006)
Cricket and the state of the nation	(February 3, 2006)
Too much all at once	(January 27, 2006)
Retreat from Kalabagh	(January 20, 2006)
The ghazal perfected	(January 14, 2006)
Another winter of discontent	(January 6, 2006)
Indian cheek and Pakistani helplessness	(December 30, 2005)
Whither, once again, beloved Punjab?	(December 23, 2005)
Dec 16, 1971: any lessons learned?	(December 16, 2005)
A fever called Kalabagh	(December 9, 2005)
Cautionary tale	(December 2, 2005)
Hurrahs somewhat premature	(November 25, 2005)
Commotion among the rosebushes	(November 18, 2005)
Less make-up, please	(November 11, 2005)
Scarcely believable	(November 4, 2005)
Scarcely believable	(November 3, 2005)
The best and the worst	(October 28, 2005)
Spirit of ’65 & the parallels with today	(October 21, 2005)
Not quite our finest hour	(October 14, 2005)
Extended funeral of the core issue	(October 7, 2005)
The Nazimate of Chakwal	(September 30, 2005)
No thanks, General Sahib	(September 23, 2005)
Marking time wisely	(September 16, 2005)
With champions like these	(September 9, 2005)
Master strokes of history	(September 2, 2005)
Elections then and now	(August 26, 2005)
Existence and anguish	(August 19, 2005)
Engaging personalities	(August 12, 2005)
Strategic this and that	(August 5, 2005)
A Pakistani manifesto	(July 29, 2005)
Once again, alas, the usual suspects	(July 22, 2005)
Madness, not salvation	(July 15, 2005)
The magic in our lives	(July 8, 2005)
Longevity and endurance	(July 1, 2005)
Dumbness passing understanding	(June 24, 2005)
Standing in line	(June 17, 2005)
A travesty of history	(June 10, 2005)
Peace dividend? Forget it	(June 3, 2005)
Mess in the districts	(May 27, 2005)
Something wrong with the world of Islam	(May 20, 2005)
Holy mess but what do you expect?	(May 13, 2005)
The new censorship	(May 06, 2005)
Wages of confusion	(Apr 29, 2005)
Not even Munich, simply a meltdown	(Apr 24, 2005)
Understanding the maulvi point of view	(Apr 08, 2005)
Clueless Caesars, unintended consequences	(Apr 01, 2005)
Balochistan: missing the point	(Mar 25, 2005)
Friends with America	(Mar 18, 2005)
Personals: mark of civilization	(Mar 11, 2005)
The meaning of 'enlightened moderation'	(Mar 04, 2005)
Anatomy of folly: not for robust souls	(Feb 25, 2005)
In the land of smiles	(Feb 18, 2005)
Moaning about what?	(Feb 11, 2005)
Spare us this confusion	(Feb 04, 2005)
Injury, fine, but why the insult?	(Jan 28, 2005)
The big thirst	(Jan 21, 2005)
How not to put out a fire	(Jan 14, 2005)
A bit of Shakespeare, please	(Jan 07, 2005)
Balance sheet	(Dec 31, 2004)
Fortified mess-halls, please	(Dec 24, 2004)
Unilateral concessionism	(Dec 17, 2004)
Realtors' paradise	(Dec 10, 2004)
Reconciliation: the new mantra	(Dec 03, 2004)
Triumph of expediency	(Nov 26, 2004)
Miscellaneous	(Nov 19, 2004)
A love-hate relationship	(Nov 12, 2004)
Hubris and lies rewarded	(Nov 05, 2004)
Winning the battle of Kashmir	(Oct 29, 2004)
Autumn of the patriarch?	(Oct 22, 2004)
And the winner is...	(Oct 15, 2004)
The grass and the elephants	(Oct 08, 2004)
What is the opposition up to?	(Oct 01, 2004)
Touching up history	(Sep 24, 2004)
Sea-change: the focus shifts	(Sep 17, 2004)
B-grade qawwals	(Sep 10, 2004)
Ever see a wimp winning?	(Sep 03, 2004)
For roses to bloom...	(August 27, 2004)
The long sleep	(August 20, 2004)
What, then, was partition all about?	(August 13, 2004)
A country in denial?	(August 06, 2004)
Who said we were the Philippines?	(July 30, 2004)
The ghost that won't go away	(July 23, 2004)
Road to Baghdad	(July 16, 2004)
Sentinels at the gate	(July 09, 2004)
Positive vs the negative	(July 02, 2004)
Paradise threatened	(June 25, 2004)
The undeclared war	(June 18, 2004)
A 'sincere' approach to Kashmir	(June 11, 2004)
Republic terrorized by fools	(June 04, 2004)
Moderation and modernism	(May 28, 2004)
Triumph of pragmatism	(May 21, 2004)
We don't get it, do we?	(May 14, 2004)
Our house of mummies	(May 07, 2004)
In the likeness of Yazid	(April 30, 2004)
The new ugly American	(April 23, 2004)
Anyone surprised?	(April 16, 2004)
Platos from the drill square	(April 09, 2004)
Condemned by fear and caution	(April 02, 2004)
High-value fiction	(March 26, 2004)
Deccan chronicle	(March 19, 2004)
Delhi journey	(March 12, 2004)
What's there to choose?	(March 05, 2004)
Piety and sin, balance destroyed	(Feb 27, 2004)
Learning a costly lesson	(Feb 20, 2004)
If Bush slips, what becomes of his friends?	(Feb 13, 2004)
Khan, scapegoat or magician extraordinary?	(Feb 06, 2004)
Pakistan agonistes	(Jan 30, 2004)
Overloading the national grid	(Jan 23, 2004)
K. L. Saigol: 1904-1946	(Jan 16, 2004)
Joyride of the victors	(Jan 09, 2004)
Curse of the geo-strategic samurai	(Jan 02, 2004)
The end of Jihad Incorporated	(Dec 19, 2003)
Monkey swings or considered policy?	(Dec 12, 2003)
Retrieving the lost years	(Dec 05, 2003)
When the wheel turns	(Nov 21, 2003)
Unipolarity meets its check in Iraq	(Nov 14, 2003)
Did Dr Mahathir wear a uniform?	(Nov 07, 2003)
What is India afraid of?	(Oct 31, 2003)
What is Pakistan afraid of?	(Oct 24, 2003)
Soldiers for Iraq: revised thoughts	(Oct 17, 2003)
WClever or too clever by half?	(Oct 10, 2003)
With Pakistan willing, what's America's problem?	(Oct 03, 2003)
The problem of spine in Pakistani politics	(Sep 26, 2003)
Having solved everything else, now water	(Sep 19, 2003)
Shame or no shame: Pakistan's dilemma	(Sep 12, 2003) /td>
Is national defence in safe hands?	(Sep 05, 2003)
Situation vacant: wanted a new PM	(August 29, 2003)
What would Castro have done?	(August 22, 2003)
Who's smiling now?	(August 08, 2003)
Military and Mullahs: deserving each other	(August 01, 2003)
Oriental posturing, western lies	(July 25, 2003)
The new jihad: riding with Uncle Sam	(July 18, 2003)
White elephants and the PR trade	(July 11, 2003)
Summer holiday	(July 04, 2003)
The dance of the courtesans	(June 27, 2003)
Saving the world: a Hillary presidency	(June 20, 2003)
Trashing the Republic: an overdone pastime	(June 13, 2003)
Kashmir formula for Musharraf's LFO	(June 06, 2003)
A project for coming together	(May 30, 2003)
Another myth of independence	(May 23, 2003)
Health care in the Islamic Republic	(May 17, 2003)
Can we pull it off this time?	(May 09, 2003)
Two countries which refuse to grow up	(May 02, 2003)
The General exasperated	(Apr 25, 2003)
Liberation, American-style	(Apr 18, 2003)
Some liberation	(Apr 11, 2003)
Enter the new Salahuddin	(Mar 28, 2003)
When words run out	(Mar 21, 2003)
UN vote and other things	(Mar 14, 2003)
Pakistan's cricket-general: five more years	(Mar 07, 2003)
The case for speaking up	(Feb 28, 2003)
The great Pakistani public: fast asleep	(Feb 21, 2003)
The first sin: conformity	(Feb 07, 2003)
People and leaders: who's stupid?	(Jan 31, 2003)
Iraq strategy: grass for the cows	(Jan 24, 2003)
Fighting bin Ladenism: the West and us	(Jan 17, 2003)
The death of outrage	(Jan 10, 2003)
The correct method of waging war	(Jan 03, 2003)
Spreading despondency: who's to blame?	(Dec 27, 2002)
Pakistan first: what does it mean?	(Dec 20, 2002)
The long sleep	(Dec 13, 2002)
A talent for flogging dead horses	(Dec 06, 2002)
Taking to the road	(Nov 29, 2002)
A fashion statement for our times	(Nov 22, 2002)
A comic opera beginning to pall	(Nov 15, 2002)
Stooping to conquer	(Nov 08, 2002)
What must the press do?	(Nov 01, 2002)
Looking for the perfect dummy	(Oct 25, 2002)
March of the clerics (and other stories)	(Oct 18, 2002)
An imperfect education	(Oct 04, 2002)
Our saviours & their shibboleths	(Sep 27, 2002)
Introduction to music	(Sep 20, 2002)
September 11 and Pakistan	(Sep 13, 2002)
For birds of passage cruel times	(Sep 06, 2002)
An election alliance to beat all others	(August 30, 2002)
The abiding tragedy of reformers	(August 23, 2002)
Bewildered: the cavalry under siege	(August 16, 2002)
Creative anarchy Pakistani style	(August 09, 2002)
Medals for gallantry: heroism in Islamabad	(August 02, 2002)
What is blasphemy?	(July 26, 2002)
The surrender of the lambs	(July 19, 2002)
All politics (or most of it) is local	(July 12, 2002)
Philosophy amidst the ruins	(July 05, 2002)
U-turns abroad, the old line at home	(June 28, 2002)
Back to the future	(June 21, 2002)
A necessary education after all	(June 14, 2002)
Pakistan's crisis of destiny	(June 07, 2002)
Thank God, no more running	(May 31, 2002)
Rising peril, stricken leadership	(May 24, 2002)
My contemporaries	(May 17, 2002)
Blowback time: caught in the crossfire	(May 10, 2002)
"Dhukka kis ne diya?"	(May 03, 2002)
Military pretensions & middle class illusions	(Apr 26, 2002)
Why army is taking another wrong turning	(Apr 19, 2002)
A drama which has to be endured	(Apr 12, 2002)
Falstaffian comedy: Pakistan's enduring art form	(Apr 05, 2002)
The problem of legitimacy	(Mar 29, 2002)
Old ghosts march again	(Mar 22, 2002)
The saviours of Pakistan	(Mar 15, 2002)
And the situation is excellent	(Mar 08, 2002)
How many generals can a country afford?	(Mar 01, 2002)
The spirit of Hamas	(Feb 22, 2002)
Pakistan's American fallacy	(Feb 15, 2002)
The road to hell (or the triumph of innocence)	(Feb 08, 2002)
A banana republic without the bananas	(Feb 01, 2002)
Monkeys with nuclear razors	(Jan 25, 2002)
Excelling at the art of the strategic U-turn	Jan 18, 2002)
A hundred kicks, a hundred onions	(Jan 11, 2002)
Full-time commanders, please	(Jan 04, 2002)
National honour is not on the line	(Dec 28, 2001)
The subcontinent's way of doing business	(Dec 21, 2001)
The logic of the mighty	(Dec 14, 2001)
Now for a Loya Jirga for Pakistan	(Dec 07, 2001)
Pragmatism of the supine	(Nov 30, 2001)
The fantasies of Pakistani liberalism	(Nov 23, 2001)
Pakistan's red carpet fraying at the edges	(Nov 16, 2001)
War on terror - my cow	(Nov 09, 2001)
Afloat (barely) on a sea of shame	(Nov 02, 2001)
Helpless in the eye of the storm	(Oct 26, 2001)
A happy assumption waiting to be tested	(Oct 19, 2001)
A mess of pottage	(Oct 12, 2001)
Joining the international mainstream	(Oct 05, 2001)
Standing a 20-year nexus on its head	(Sep 28, 2001)
A passion for selling ourselves cheaply	(Sep 21, 2001)
The fury of despair	(Sep 14, 2001)
Getting smaller things right	(Sep 07, 2001)
Towards a junkyard of the spirit	(August 31, 2001)
Heaven and its suburbs	(August 24, 2001)
Roadmap to nowhere	(August 17, 2001)
The last of the cold warriors	(August 10, 2001)
Real democracy: the miracle at hand	(August 03, 2001)
To what uses this eloquence?	(July 27, 2001)
What more could we have asked for?	(July 20, 2001)
A fresh line in cosmetics	(July 13, 2001)
Revisiting the past	(July 06, 2001)
Being nice is not the point	(June 29, 2001)
The General as President: a tale foretold	(June 22, 2001)
Pakistan's Khatimids: eyeless across the waters	(June 15, 2001)
Educating the warriors	(June 08, 2001)
Fog and illusions on the road to peace	(June 01, 2001)
You don't shoot admirals, do you?	(May 25, 2001)
Canker in an ideal relationship	(May 18, 2001)
A passion for verbosity	(May 11, 2001)
The Burma Road	(May 04, 2001)
An excess of brass	(Apr 27, 2001)
The come up pance of an upright man	(Apr 20, 2001)
A midway balance sheet	(Apr 13, 2001)
The Pakistani Sahib: only half there	(Apr 07, 2001)
A question of horses	(Mar 30, 2001)
No tehelka please, we're Pakistanis	(Mar 23, 2001)
Mahmud and Ayaz	(Mar 16, 2001)
Clothes to fit a general	(Mar 09, 2001)
The grim business of waging peace	(Mar 02, 2001)
The death of politics	(Feb 23, 2001)
Taming the paper tigers	(Feb 16, 2001)
In this hammaam who is covered?	(Feb 09, 2001)
Servitude and the daily grind	(Feb 02, 2001)
A glimpse of the future	(Jan 26, 2001)
Kashmir & power of illusion	(Jan 19, 2001)
The last of the public school boys	(Jan 12, 2001)
Riotous times	(Jan 05, 2001)
The messiah Chakwal chooses to ignore	(Dec 28, 2000)
As spoke not Zarathustra	(Dec 22, 2000)
Hilarity or what?	(Dec 15, 2000)
There is no Kashmir solution	(Dec 08, 2000)
A penchant for sticking it in the mouth	(Dec 01, 2000)
Old script, new situation	(Nov 24, 2000)
Poverty of collective imagination	(Nov 17, 2000)
The suave and the cheerless	(Nov 10, 2000)
Surrealism across a bleak landscape	(Nov 03, 2000)
The kill-joy spirit	(Oct 27, 2000)
On the high seas	(Oct 20, 2000)
The nation and its redeemers	(Oct 13, 2000)
Caesar bemused	(Oct 06, 2000)
Recurring illusions	(Sep 29, 2000)
National Bolshevism & the higher mathematics	(Sep 22, 2000)
One step forward: how many steps back?	(Sep 15, 2000)
Journalism in the Internet age	Sep 08, 2000)
The quality of Pakistani dictatorship	(Sep 01, 2000)
Who should be pointing out the lies?	(August 25, 2000)
A revolution from above	(August 18, 2000)
Drones and brahmins	(August 11, 2000)
The revelation at hand	(August 04, 2000)
Core issue, my goat	(July 28, 2000)
The (further) closing of the Pakistani mind	(July 21, 2000)
Panache: what's that?	(July 14, 2000)
Education of the military	(July 07, 2000)
The evil of our circumstances	(June 30, 2000)
The other drought	(June 23, 2000)
How one man can make a difference	(June 16, 2000)
Whose agenda is it, anyway?	(June 09, 2000)
The more things change	(June 02, 2000)
Learning politics the hard way	(May 26, 2000)
Fit for what?	(May 19, 2000)
So what's new?	(May 12, 2000)
Till the rains come?	(May 05, 2000)
Who botched the transition to democracy?	(Apr 28, 2000)
The credit side and a hearing problem	(Apr 21, 2000)
Pity the Pakistani people	(Apr 14, 2000)
Being grateful for small mercies	(Apr 07, 2000)
The fourth junta	(Mar 31, 2000)
Stepping into the real world	(Mar 24, 2000)
Lost in the woods	(Mar 17, 2000)
The ramparts of Pakistani pride	(Mar 10, 2000)
A tale of a dazed city	(Mar 03, 2000)
Too many shadows	(Feb 25, 2000)
Rocket-like personalities	(Feb 18, 2000)
The best in Pakistan	(Feb 11, 2000)
The undiluted triumph of the bayonet	(Feb 04, 2000)
A weary scene re-enacted	(Jan 28, 2000)
The great rehabilitation department	(Jan 21, 2000)
'Kuch ishq kiya, kuch kaam kiya'	(Jan 14, 2000)
Shining idea, abiding tragedy	(Jan 07, 2000)
Something after all to celebrate	(Dec 31, 1999)
Military justice: the good and the not so good	(Dec 24, 1999)
A speech best left undelivered	(Dec 17, 1999)
The distinct sound of floundering	(Dec 10, 1999)
Operating fallacies	(Dec 03, 1999)
Pursuing a fallen man: not worth it	(Nov 26, 1999)
Cynicism takes a thrashing	(Nov 19, 1999)
How many plots does a man require?	(Nov 12, 1999)
The new Samaritans	(Nov 05, 1999)
Sinking into the sand	(Oct 29, 1999)
Scratchy record, familiar tune	(Oct 22, 1999)
What now?	(Oct 15, 1999)
Thank you, Nawaz Sharif	(Oct 08, 1999)
No coup, no nothing	(Oct 01, 1999)
The country deserves a fresh start	(Sep 24, 1999)
Testing ponies and waiting stallions	(Sep 17, 1999)
Out of breath already	(Sep 10, 1999)
Then and now	(Sep 03, 1999)
The albatross round our neck	(Aug 27, 1999)
What is the point of criticism?	(Aug 20, 1999)
Battered pride and imperial confusion	(Aug 13, 1999)
Getting on with life	(Aug 06, 1999)
Accountability Pakistani-style	(Jul 30, 1999)
For this submission what gain?	(Jul 23, 1999)
Abdication of leadership	(Jul 16, 1999)
Victory in reverse: the great climbdown	(Jul 09, 1999)
What is the political leadership up to?	(Jul 02, 1999)
A fiasco in the making	(Jun 25, 1999)
When silence is no longer a virtue	(Jun 18, 1999)
The great divide	(Jun 11, 1999)