Tag: Irfan Hussain English Articles

One by one, the pillars of our constitutional framework have been yanked from their foundations by political engineers and their civilian assistants. While the...

THE recent skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley resulted in a score of Indian soldiers dead, and many more wounded. Even...

FOR a country that has been looking upon Saudi Arabia as an ATM, Pakistan should be sad that oil prices, the kingdom’s life blood,...

AS we endure the coronavirus, with all its suffering, discomfort and death, we would do well to reflect on other times, other plagues. In other...

ANYBODY who has travelled through London’s Heathrow Airport will know what a madhouse it can seem, with thousands of passengers clogging the immigration desks. So...

LET’S not kid ourselves: ‘mera jism, meri marzi’ (my body, my choice) is not a mere slogan. It is a call to arms. Those thugs...

IT’S just as well that Donald Trump wears a bulletproof vest under his shirt, otherwise the Indian prime minister’s repeated bear hugs might have...

WHILE the BJP defeat in Delhi was expected, its magnitude wasn’t. Eight seats out of a legislature of 70 is a hammering of epic...

IF democracy depends on the consent of the losers, then Pakistan cannot claim to be a democratic country. Oh sure, we have our elections,...

IN the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, the US president gets embroiled in a sexual scandal while fighting for re-election. A spin doctor is...