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Nawaz Sharif’s Moment of Truth

Nawaz Sharif disqualified to run for the national Assembly by none other than the Lahore High Court. How should he react to it? How should he take it?

Bhutto’s Judicial Murder Revisited

For an insecure gatecrasher like Zia, Bhutto’s engineered ‘judicial murder’ was a zero sum game: it was either Bhutto on the gallows or his own neck on the chopping block.

Benazir’s Murder: Who Killed Her?

Why wasn’t BB’s body post-mortem not carried out? It sounds so naïve and unconvincing that the post-mortem was dispensed with at the request of Asif Zardari, BB’s spouse.

The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan

Throttling democracy and shackling human rights of 160 million Pakistanis, Musharraf still has the gall to liken his ignoble daylight robbery to Lincoln’s historic nobility.

The Ghost of Justice Munir is Still Alive

Islamabad’s nervous and jittery ‘guardians’ have turned the capital city into a fenced-of, ‘no-go’ town.

The Great Betrayal

What has changed Karachi’s chemistry so radically as to array this great metropolis, this former crucible of freedom and liberty in Pakistan, on the side of an autocrat in the struggle against one-man’s tyranny?

Men in Khaki

Instead of fixing the PIA bigwigs—mostly cronies of his and Shaukat Aziz—who have brought so much ignominy and shame on Pakistan, the commando general opts to pick up a fight with the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, and embarks o

Making a Martyr of Saddam

Why was Saddam not tried at The Hague, or some other neutral venue, by a court of transparency?

From Memory Lane to Love Lane

My memory lane of Karachi, the city I call my own, begins at Love Lane, nearly sixty years ago, at the confluence of Pakistan’s birth as a free state. Whenever I travel down the nostalgia highway, it never misses to exit at that intersection.

Musharraf Stirring the Pot in the Tribal Area—Why?

It's hard not to conclude that he’s succumbing to the immense pressure that has been mounted on him from Washington and, closer to home, from Kabul

Musharraf Spilling the Beans—Why Now?

A very serious accusation of America’s high-handedness, its blatant arm-twisting, which sounded all the more sanguine coming from a trusted and loyal ally like Musharraf, with apparently no reason or motive to grind an axe with his mentors whose pat

Blowing Up People and Property is Not Islam

The arrests, last week in Toronto, of 17 mostly Muslim youths, some barely in their teens, should be a wakeup call for the Muslims of Canada, calling this largely tolerant, and happily multicultural country their home. It’s high time for a reality c

A Lot is Rotten in the State of Denmark

One doesn’t have to live in Europe to partake of the shabby treatment meted out to its Muslim minority. Even a casual visitor to a European capital gets a taste of it. Functionaries at airports freeze into unsmiling robots the moment they see a Musl

Sharon’s Legacy

So fixated was Sharon with his missionary persecution of the Palestinians that he simply wouldn’t allow them a respite in the wake of the ersatz peace hammered out in the wake of Oslo and the subsequent return of PLO

F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?

Conventional wisdom says it’s a ‘reward’ for General Musharraf’s loyalty to George W. Bush’s ‘cause’ in this part of the world. The question is why now?

Benazir Bhutto: Third Time Lucky?

Tea leaves readers and crystal ball gazing political pundits believe that BB’s persistence to seek yet another crack at office may be about to pay off.

Musharraf and Bush—A Symbiotic Thing?

General Musharraf is on his annual safari to U.S. at a time when both he and his mentor, George W. Bush are up against a credibility battle.

One Roof, Two Worlds

New immigrants, they say, carry a lot of old baggage. Well, not in the literal sense but metaphorically.

Let Cricket Inspire India and Pakistan

Politics, by its nature, is just the opposite of Cricket. Stalwarts of the art of politics, old and new, are at one that it’s not a craft for gentlemen.

Did Libya Stab Pakistan in the Back?

It wasn’t so much what Qaddafi had, or didn’t have, in his arsenal. But what was of importance to the Anglo-Americans was that they had managed to break the most vocal and loud-mouthed of the hostile Arab leaders.

Is Dr. Qadeer Guilty as Accused?

Allegorically speaking, Musharraf has dealt as symbolic a blow to Qadeer’s aura and stature as the American ‘conquerors’ of Iraq did last year to Saddam Hussain’s by dismantling his bronze statue in Baghdad’s Firdousi Square.

Should Bush be Scared of Iraq’s Sistani?

Just as Bush is now claiming to send expeditions to Mars to explore it for mankind, he has been waxing eloquent for months to morphe Iraq into a model of democracy in the Arab world.

Between Musharraf and Mullahs—Who Won?

Victory came swiftly to Musharraf once he had cut a deal with the maulvis and mullahs in Pakistan’s right-wing MMA—a motley collection of religion-based political parties and politicos—about his self-scripted amendments to Pakistan’

Should Pakistan, too, Dump the Commonwealth?

Leaving the Commonwealth arena all to India by walking out from it would be a big blunder. Why give India a walk-over?

India-Pakistan: This is not Cricket

The latest round of diplomacy by media between arch-rivals India and Pakistan betrays their irrepressible proclivity to play politics with even the most sensitive issues of peace or war.

Why is the West so angry with Dr. Mahathir?

It looks as if the intrepid Mahathir, known for speaking his mind fearlessly, has disturbed a hornet’s nest in many a western capital.

Why Bush Will Fail in Iraq

Why did the Iraqis not welcome their ‘liberators’ as such? Because they have always detested foreigners coming in as their liberators and benefactors.

Karamatullah K Ghori

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