Arif Nizami
More of the same by Arif Nizami
24 July, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010 Arif Nizami Pakistan has been at the epicentre of hectic diplomatic activity in the past few weeks. However, as they say, no matter how much things change they remain the same. Parleys between Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart, S M Krishna, failed to break any fresh ground. [...]
The media and the politicians by Arif Nizami
17 July, 2010Saturday, July 17, 2010 Arif Nizami In the wake of the terrorist attack on Data Durbar and the furore over MPAs’ fake degrees, it seemed that things could not get worse for Mian Shahbaz Sharif in Punjab. But they did, in the aftermath of the provincial assembly’s unanimous passage of a resolution, sponsored by the [...]
Countering insurgency by Arif Nizami
10 July, 2010Saturday, July 10, 2010 Arif Nizami The nation seems badly divided in the wake of the dastardly terrorist attack on one of the holiest and most revered shrine of the subcontinent, the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh. Instead of their putting up a unified front, the Centre and Punjab [...]
The graveyard of empires by Arif Nizami
3 July, 2010Saturday, July 03, 2010 Arif Nizami Afghanistan, “the graveyard of empires” where no foreign invader since Genghis Khan has been able to get a foothold, is a lost cause for the West. The unceremonious exit of the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal over his acerbic and unflattering remarks in a magazine interview [...]
State of denial by Arif Nizami
5 June, 2010Saturday, June 05, 2010 Arif Nizami The simultaneous attacks on two places of worship of the Ahmedi community in Lahore, which claimed at least 95 lives, and the subsequent attack on the Jinnah Hospital to free an injured suicide attacker were perhaps not enough to wake the provincial government from its deep slumber. Despite the [...]
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