Newsmakers
FARAH Gogi, whose real name is Farhat Shahzadi, is the one reason why former prime minister Imran Khan’s shiny personal record is
The great deluge
UNTIL September, Manchhar Lake was brimming with floodwaters from Balochistan and upper Sindh. Raging water flows...
The disappearing dollar
EVEN by Pakistan’s own standards, the year 2022 was the toughest one in 75 years for its wobbly economy as it...
Ukraine bog, Bali bonhomie
THUCYDIDES, the Greek philosopher, predicated more than two millennia ago that a rising power was destined to clash...
Israeli hegemony, tumult in Iran
THERE was more to the Middle East than the 2022 football World Cup in gas-rich Qatar — the first Arab state to host the mega event
Trouble on Olympus
That is where the year ended — in stalemate, and with each side determined to out-manoeuvre the other.
Averting default
The whole year Pakistan spent trying desperately to avert default and manage crippling shortages of foreign exchange.
The Nobel Prize 2021
The Nobel Prize 2021
From Delta to Omicron, the pandemic raged on
WITH more than five million deaths and some 280 million confirmed cases over the last couple of years, 2021 was no...
Streaming time!
STREAMING services, like Netflix, continued to prosper as Covid-induced restrictions kept people away from theatres...
Running Away from covid?
IF the world was not being too nice to its inhabitants, with Covid and everything else signifying misery, private...
The Newsmakers
PAKISTAN’S struggle with technology continued in 2021. And it was personified by nothing more than did TikTok, the popular video
Politics In Perspective: More Of The Same
IN the times of a pandemic, one would have assumed politics would take a backseat, but this only held true for the...
Itching For A Fight
THE PTI government has been constantly itching for a fight over the years, throwing punches at anybody and everybody...
Economy In Perspective: Too Much Too Fast?
THE main economic storyline in 2021 was ‘growth’. Growth happened, but the news otherwise was gloomy as people...
Tough going tougher
IT was a rather tough year for households across Pakistan. And it kept getting tougher all the time. Putting their...
Afghanistan: Chaos Across The Border
WEEKS before the Afghan Taliban made a triumphant entry into Kabul, a top security official told a huddle of...
Mideast: Massacre And Détente
THE low-level talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran in Baghdad were perhaps the only positive development in the ...
The year of the pandemic
IF there was ever a moment in modern history when life as we know it came to a halt, it was the beginning of the ...
A year of two halves in Pakistan
IN March, when China and Europe were hit hard by the virus, Pakistan reported its first coronavirus death; at an...
Newsmakers
ZINDAGI TAMASHA: Though cleared by the censor boards, the movie never got an official release in the country. Winner of the Busan
PTI versus PTI
The ruling party was more under pressure owing to its own shortcomings rather than anything done by any other entity.
Transparency at stake
THE accountability juggernaut continued to roll on in 2020. Its path was uneven, for even as it bore down...
A Motley Alliance
While there were visible signs of anxiety among the rulers, not many see the PDM achieving much success in its stated targets.
Not an ‘exceptional’ year
WHEN it comes to Sindh, just about everything is seen through a particular political lens by the rest of the ...
A fluctuating graph
Coming in the middle of an improving situation, the crisis of 2020 was different from anything seen in national history.
Recognition Blitz
For most part of the year, the Saudi silence on the growing ties between the Arabs and Israel was deafening until IT came out with
Back to a bipolar world?
The China-US relationship is like a bad marriage that must continue due to the vested – and common – interests.
Newsmakers: When India went bonkers
IT was a year when India, by its own standards, went bonkers. From revocation of Article 370 to Citizenship (Amendment)
Cover Story: Change or continuity
The good moments in politics in Pakistan are just that — moments.
Triumph of Greed
Bahria's modus operandi has been the elephant in the room for a long time even though its activities were no secret.
National: Cornered but not quite
COURTS, parliament, hospitals, tentative agreements, accusations of last-minute betrayal – yet it is moot if 2019...
A Dysfunctional ECP
THIS was a happening year. Indeed, it was. But under the debris of all the important economic and political...
Judiciary: Treason now accountable
AT last a conviction for high treason has been recorded and, hopefully, Article 6 of the Constitution can no longer...
Economy: Talking the big talk
Will the govt walk the critical walk in 2020?
Mideast: Turmoil, turbulence, travails
THE death of two men starkly opposite in character, and America’s abject surrender once again to Zionist power...
International: Shock around the globe
ONE man’s murder preceded by torture and slow death seemed for once to have overshadowed larger tragedies and...
It was More of the same at NAB
DURING his first press conference after being appointed the chief of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in ...
Newsmakers: A horror story that put humanity to shame
IN a year of political and economic turmoil, the collective conscience of the country was put to test early in the...
Year of the fog
The year will be remembered as the year Dar’s growth rates unravelled.
Perspective: The year of the atmospherics
What are the key words that might define the year that it was? Naya Pakistan? U-Turn? Accountability?
Is Pakistan-India ice silently breaking?
In 2018, Modi may have missed a big chance to change the discourse with Pakistan, which could have been to his benefit.
In search of a legacy
Justice Nisar created headlines not just in courtrooms but by visits all across the country.
Naya Pakistan: The changing change
The PTI victory had some remarkable features indicating that change also dictated many compromises.