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| Cyril Almeida |
FORGET Raheel this, Bajwa that, Nawaz stupid, Imran clueless. Step back, breathe, and try and trace where this is going.
We are sinking into a militancy trap.
There’s a ghoulish metric that everyone knows, but humaneness means most deny: a big one in Parachinar or Quetta equals a small one in Karachi, Lahore or Islamabad.
Somewhere, someone knows the same. Somewhere, someone, here in this land, has decided that it’s a price worth paying — by us.
Because we’re hitting them, the militants, they can’t strike as much and as often as they did or would like.
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| Zarrar Khuhro |
IT’S alright if you missed Mufti Muneebur Rehman (or Maulana Popalzai if you prefer) announcing the sighting of the Eid moon, because that blessed event is more effectively heralded by the volleys of gunfire directed at the sky by the armed, ignorant and jubilant.
Handguns, automatic weapons and what could possibly be belt-fed light machine guns are all used to celebrate this occasion, and many other less sanctified days as well.
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| Gail Collins |
Bret, let’s talk about rules. President Trump, like virtually all Republicans, thinks we have too many. Getting rid of government regulations is one of the cornerstones of his administration — if you can imagine anything as shaky as this administration having cornerstones.
The idea of streamlining government always sounds good. I live in Manhattan and half the buildings seem to be under construction sheds in order to comply with various regulations. When I was
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| Josh Rogin |
A senior official in the White House’s National Economic Council will soon be named U.S. ambassador to India, four White House officials confirmed. The move comes as the Indian prime minister plans to visit the Trump White House next week for the first time.
Kenneth Juster currently serves as the international deputy to NEC Director Gary Cohn. His exit from the White House has been
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| Gail Collins |
Everybody seems to hate the Senate health care bill, which was created by 13 Republican men meeting behind closed doors.
Of course, a lot of you wouldn’t have been all that crazy about a bill brought to you by 12 Republican men and a woman. Perhaps you wouldn’t even have been satisfied if it were written by 13 Republican women senators, although we’ll never know since there are only five of them.
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| Roger Cohen |
President Trump is holding the first fundraiser of his 2020 re-election campaign later this month at the Trump International Hotel near the White House.
That is now a normal sort of sentence. It may be true or it may not (in fact it is). There’s no enormity about it. Already, on the 154th day of this presidency, Americans are suffering from incredulity fatigue. Oh, we just sold $12 billion of fighter jets to Qatar a few days after Trump accused Doha of being a major funder of terrorism — that kind of thing.
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| David Brooks |
A few months ago I had lunch with a former student named Lucy Fleming, one of the best writers I’ve taught. I asked her what she had learned in her first year out of college. She said she had been forced to think differently.
While in school, her thinking was station to station: take that test, apply to that college, aim for a degree. But in young adulthood, there are no more stations. Everything is open seas. Your main problems are not about the assignment right in front of you; they
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| M bilal Lakhani |
“I worry more about appearing perfect in front of others rather than my actual happiness,” shares Ali Awan,* a corporate banker in his early 30s. “My self-esteem and confidence come from achievements at work and my perception of how others perceive me. But I feel I have no real confidence in myself, despite my professional and personal success. Every time I make a mistake
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| Tanuj Garg |
On November 8 when I was driving home, at about 8pm, I received a message on Whatsapp that Rs1,000 and Rs500 notes had been de-monetised with effect from midnight that night. I thought it was a hoax till I got home and put on the television.
I paused for a minute to think about how a mammoth operation of the kind, which had obviously been in planning for months, had been kept reasonably covert. I say ‘reasonably’ because there has
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| Chris Cork |
Anew pizza joint opened in the city in the last week, one of a global chain and nothing remarkable in that you may think — pizza parlours are two-a-penny. Family pressures prevailed and we duly rolled up a couple of nights after the opening to find the place packed. And I do mean packed. It was standing room only the customer seating having proved inadequate to demand as I waited
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| Naveed Iftikhar |
King Sejong of the Choson Dynasty of Korea in the 15th century is remembered today for his extraordinary support for the scientific development and inventions in the areas of astronomy, agriculture, metals, and geography. After ascending the throne, reportedly, he established a learning center named “Kyong-yon”
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| Kamila Hyat |
The bomb blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Shah Noorani in Khuzdar, Balochistan has added to the hundreds killed in similar attacks on Sufi centres of worship; these attacks began a decade ago. Since then there have been at least 25 major attacks, targeting devotees at shrines which include Data Gang Bakhsh in Lahore, Baba Farid in Pakpattan, Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Karachi and Rehman Baba the Pashto poet and scholar whose writings on Sufism are a subject of scholarly
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| Imtiaz Alam |
A somewhat bumpy democratic transition continues to create uncertainties that allow desperate elements to disrupt the constitutional path to stabilisation. There are ideological, political, strategic and institutional paradoxes that distort political processes and make the state look like a ‘failing state’ – often described so in terms of failures of governance.
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