Tag: Abbas Nasir
Broadsheetgate – Abbas Nasir
ON one of his trips to Karachi towards the middle of 2000, Pakistan’s ‘chief executive’ and army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf agreed to...
Lethal blackmail arsenal – Abbas Nasir
IF bodies of slain loved ones can indeed be weaponised by mourning families to blackmail a prime minister, the Hazara Shias of Balochistan must...
PDM obits are premature – Abbas Nasir
THE Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has become ineffective for all practical purposes and the vastly differing agendas of the coalescing parties are pulling...
Dreadful December- Abbas Nasir
TWO thousand twenty will be remembered as a year of fear and uncertainty. While the Covid-19 pandemic catapulted human beings into a more globalised...
PDM rally takeaway- Abbas Nasir
DEPENDING on which side of the divide you were on, you either saw the Dec 13 PDM Lahore rally as a bigger disaster for...
Does PDM have an N-option?- Abbas Nasir
AGAINST the backdrop of the PDM’s planned show of force in Lahore today, there are questions galore about where the opposition campaign is heading...
What’s news, what isn’t- Abbas Nasir
IN the post-Trump world, whether in the US, Brazil, India or Pakistan, what makes news depends on who is peddling it, and, in...
Crying need for clean slate- Abbas Nasir
POLITICAL discourse in Pakistan has degenerated to a point of no return, with the government, paradoxically, leading the race and widening the chasm...
Up the escalation ladder? – Abbas Nasir
THE dam has burst. And how. In a matter of four weeks, shelving nearly three years of silence, Nawaz Sharif has raced up...
It’s all about politics – Abbas Nasir
ALTHOUGH described as explosive, the disclosures made by former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Bashir Memon were not surprising and...