Tag: Asad Rahim Khan english articles
Cartel dreams – Asad Rahim Khan
OUR story starts in the spring of ’68, in the 10th year of our field marshal Ayub, when economist Mahbub-ul-Haq made a speech in...
Cut and run – Asad Rahim Khan
IT’S not easy being Joe Biden.
He dozes off in press conferences. He’s been wrong about everything since segregation. He owes his presidency to a...
Approach the bench – Asad Rahim Khan
THERE was, some time ago, an archbishop who said, ‘I cannot say that I know much about the law, having been far more interested...
In Rumsfeld’s ruins – Asad Rahim Khan
IN the last days of June, Donald Henry Rumsfeld passed away in his sleep, surrounded by family in Taos, the vacation town he loved....
On parliament – Asad Rahim Khan
WHEN signing off on this country’s sacred document, Zulfi Bhutto said, ‘No Constitution is ever workable without the patience, the tolerance, the search...
Imperial losers – Asad Rahim Khan
AS everyone knows, late 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, was a different time: it’s hard to forget Newsweek proudly running ‘Time...
Banning Mr Rizvi – Asad Rahim Khan
THIS past week, Islamabad took the bit between the teeth — an expression favoured by the late, great Cowasjee in these pages — and...
Afraid of Americans – Asad Rahim Khan
The United States is in trouble. Two weeks ago, at the Capitol Building, senators discussed an objection to Biden’s Electoral College win as a...
Women in France – Asad Rahim Khan
PUBLIC hanging. Chemical castration. Ibratnaak executions.
It’s an unlikely few phrases for making us feel better, but they’re said all the same. They also miss...
The anti-social network – Asad Rahim Khan
The conversation about tech’s stars has shifted sharply from reverence to suspicion to deep frustration. Perhaps no CEO is a better representative of this...