Another Imran Khan article that’s not about Musharraf’s rally. Sorry.
If Pakistan were a school and voters were the graduating class, then we’d know exactly where Musharraf would fit in. Musharraf would be the angry guy who sits at the front of each class and has a...
View ArticleDear dictator, your rally really sucked
Dear dictator, Your 'show of power' in Karachi was, if I may respectfully say disappointing and anti-climatic. Despite all your tall claims of having massive public support, and an equally large...
View ArticleDefy Pakistan: How the right-wing turned rogue
The Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) is a tightly-held multi-party alliance of some 40 parties representing all shades of the country’s religious right-wing. It is led by veteran cleric Maulana Samiul...
View ArticleIs the Punjab government protecting Ludhianvi?
After decades of abuse over corruption, politicisation, complicity with criminals, outright disregard for their own duties, and their inexplicable fear of unarmed lynch mobs, the Punjab police showed...
View ArticlePTI in Balochistan: Quetta loves Kaptaan
In this video, I explored the true sense of excitement that surrounded Imran Khan’s rally in Quetta. As one of the locals who attended the jalsa (rally) in person, I recorded scenes that show what this...
View ArticleA grim reminder
People often ask me if it is too risky to be a reporter. “Not really”, I tell them, “but if you try to be too adventurous, you can get killed.” I didn’t think of reporting this way until I covered the...
View ArticleWhere labelling has taken us
I hate it when people become judgmental. More, so, when they pounce to those judgements listening to only a singular opinion of yours and conjecturing the rest. It has happened many a times. I...
View ArticleRestored faith in Qadri
As I write this, Dr Tahirul Qadri is moving towards Islamabad with thousands of supporters. Nobody is certain about the fate of this much publicised and controversial political game. Commentators are...
View ArticleWhat Imran Khan and the March 23 rally will bring us
The importance of the coming elections cannot be overstated. Pakistan today stands on the point of implosion and the kind of leadership that is elected to take the country forward could make or break...
View ArticleAn open letter to anti-PTI trolls
Am I a member of a cult or some secret society? No. Have I recently been released from prison for murder? No. Then why do I have to cringe every time I show my support for the Azadi March and why am I...
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