The author is a political analyst and media development specialist. He can be reached at adrehmat@gmail.com.
Times when the more adventurous journalists secretly met in hidden, half-lit rooms but out of fear, not shame
The legitimacy of CoD lies in the fact that its principal authors and signatories are Bhutto’s PPP and Sharif’s PML-N
There are constitutional guarantees that define freedoms and allowances. Then there are laws that factor in limitations and punishments for...
The year 2002 was a turning point for media’s evolution in Pakistan when the country’s airwaves were opened up for private ownership and...
The average Pakistani citizen lives in the mortal fear of three threats: being branded a traitor, being charged with blasphemy and becoming the...
Nawaz Sharif will complete the first year of his five-year mandate of governing the country this month. Nothing new about this, of course....
Does it want to be a normal state? Or would it rather be a special one that helps it sidestep the boredom and banality of development in favour of...
’m intrinsically footloose, restless, always eager to travel -- peripatetic. I saw a foreign country for the first time when I was three. In...
Perhaps the worst-kept secret of Pakistan is that it is a national security state and that the imperatives that underpin this reality have been...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf bagged an astonishing 7.7 million votes in the 2013 general elections. This was enough to make it the second highest...
