Tag: Abbas Nasir
No method to PTI madness – Abbas Nasir
THERE is method to the madness of those who wield real power: they maximise their own clout but at a carefully calibrated cost; then...
Wishing Mian Sahib well – Abbas Nasir
AFTER ascertaining that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was critically ill and probably mindful of the consequences of something happening to him, a government...
Azadi March conundrum – Abbas Nasir
THERE can be little doubt that JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has assembled a huge crowd of supporters in Islamabad. But does he really...
Will Nawaz be Punjab’s Bhutto? – Abbas Nasir
Mein iss sawal ka jawab dena zuroori nahi samajhta, (I don’t think it’s necessary to answer this question),” then IJI leader Nawaz Sharif snapped...
Image often mirrors reality – Abbas Nasir
THE people may be going under, given the weight of what is increasingly looking like stagflation, but the government, its head, and other key...
Same page, same difference – Abbas Nasir
TWENTY years ago today, the military overthrew the elected government of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the army chief Gen Pervez Musharraf took...
A personal loss – Abbas Nasir
THERE are the concerns over the larger picture, a scene that appears quite dismal; then there are personal shocks to the system, losses that...
What the PTI can do – Abbas Nasir
AS the PTI government has gone past its first year in office, it is abundantly clear that some of its main electoral promises will...
Institution vs the individual – Abbas Nasir
ALMOST everybody you talk to in Pakistan laments the decrepit state of our ‘institutions’ and attributes most of the ills of the country over...