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PARTLY FACETIOUS: The criticality of a balancing act

“The Chief Minister of Punjab has issued directives…” “They all issue directives – the incumbents and the previous federal and provincial...

yesterday 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: French President, German Chancellor, Pakistani PM in same boat?

“Not fair.” “Excuse me?” “Not fair, I say, you can’t accuse people of corruption without an investigation.” “True but where...

previous day 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: All power stakeholders are in love?

“Over the years Japan has issued several statements of apology — to Myanmar and Australia in 1957, to South Korea in 1960, China in 1970, and a...

thursday 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: PM Shehbaz ought to have gone to Dhaka

“Much to Modi’s chagrin…” “Yeah, he is still angry at the lunch invite by the US President to our Chief of Army Staff…” “Indeed but...

27.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

The cost of climate change

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a fund for the flood victims, as he did during the 2022 floods, and has vowed to mobilise resources in...

26.08.2025 50

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Ukrainian President has no cards without US

“Was it a bad news day?” “I don’t understand.” “When it’s a bad news day then any news that is no news is presented as a big news, if...

24.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: But that’s the way the cookie crumbles

“What do you do when a position becomes more important than one’s legacy!” “Excuse me but if you are referring to what I think you are...

23.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Blame It on the Boogie

“I have a question but don’t get mad at me.” “I have told you once, I have told you a million times do not, I repeat do not, challenge ground...

22.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Ducks in a row?

“Could someone brief our leadership on the plummeting voice of Europe in international relations.” “Well you were wrong you said it was a Jirga...

21.08.2025 30

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: A jirga member has to be accepted by all

“I reckon it’s a jirga.” “A Jirga is when all the elders get together to resolve a dispute and perhaps the definition of a village elder may...

20.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

Is Gold Standard coming back?

Several countries have begun to trade in currencies other than the dollar as the US-led West continues to use punitive sanctions as a foreign policy...

19.08.2025 30

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: What’s the ‘Nawaz Sharif doctrine’?

“Do you want my philosophy in life?” “No, not really.” “You may learn something from it.” “Doubt it my friend – I mean what are you?...

17.08.2025 7

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: A constitution is a living document

“I would like to petition…” “Constitutional petition or…” “I am not sure – with all the amendments recently approved by parliament...

16.08.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: President Trump is a kind man, a man of peace?

“President Trump has placed portraits of those of his most recent predecessors with whom he had a contentious relationship to less prominent...

14.08.2025 30

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: A man of the highest integrity?

“I don’t understand why people don’t adjust their narratives to the prevailing situation.” “I agree there are reports that the Interior...

13.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

Good governance remains elusive

There is a widespread perception that in Pakistan there are a plethora of very well researched papers but gathering dust in government offices, penned...

12.08.2025 40

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Have the sons ever stayed with daddy in Banigala?

“Visas, so stated Talal Chaudhary, would be given on merit.” “If this statement relates to the sons of the Man Who Must Remain Nameless and...

10.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Punjab CM certainly one of the stakeholders

“The Chief Minister of Punjab says that the police waited for the protesters, but no one turned up.” “That statement could possibly have been...

09.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Towards overcoming hurdles to FBR reforms

“The Prime Minister has ordered that all hurdles to Federal Board of Revenue reforms be removed.” “He can order all he wants, but…” “Hey,...

08.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: There are those who speak for Pakistan and there are those who don’t anymore

“So there was an inadvertent confluence of dates right?” “Dates as in events occurring on a particular date? I mean given the history of the...

07.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Why did Iran’s President go to Lahore first?

“Very successful trip of the Iranian President…” “Why did he go to Lahore first?” “Not for what you are thinking.” “And what am I...

06.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

3 policy decisions in the dock

Three news items this week past should be a source of serious concern to the country’s stakeholders: SBP’s decision to purchase USD 8 billion from...

05.08.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Prosecution not always necessarily weak

“When one door opens and the other closes, you are probably in jail.” “Hey, I hope that is not a backhanded comment on recent judicial...

03.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Our bureaucrats dress better than our politicians

“I remember the sayings of the wise man!” “Who? Jinnah the father of our nation said to the civil servants that you have to do your duty as...

02.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Our bureaucrats dress better than our politicians

“I remember the sayings of the wise man!” “Who? Jinnah the father of our nation said to the civil servants that you have to do your duty as...

02.08.2025 3

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The elite capture

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” “What do you mean?” “Well, if you prefer the American way the expression is same o same.”...

01.08.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The elite capture

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” “What do you mean?” “Well, if you prefer the American way the expression is same o same.”...

01.08.2025 2

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘If a degree is a degree be it fake or not then protein is protein’

“A horse, a horse my kingdom for a horse.” “I would be careful if I were you.” “How come? I am merely quoting a great writer, William...

31.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The West has much to learn from us about the criticality of forms

“President Trump said no one thanked the US for giving food aid to Gaza?” “We all have our own perspective on…” “And he said that…”...

30.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

Discount rate as a policy tool

Economic stability has been achieved, and the country will not be deterred from implementing the reform agenda agreed with the International Monetary...

29.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘Have we ever been rated as investment grade?’

“Hallelujah!” “Hallelujah is Hebrew and can be broken down into two words – halel means joyous song, praise, and Yah is a shortened form of...

27.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘The world is gray, my friend, very gray’

“Popularity is one thing that can evaporate pretty quickly.” “Unless buttressed by, how shall I put it, actions that are…” “You are no...

26.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn

“There is one thing our politicians can learn from The Master.” “The Master as in…in…” “I am warning you - don’t think local.”...

25.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Michael Wolff, author of the best-selling book titled Fire and Fury, made an interesting observation based on his unprecedented access to what...

24.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

Sanctions eroding USD’s global reach

History may hold US President Donald Trump responsible for undermining the pervasive influence of his country in several international agencies dating...

22.07.2025 30

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS We’re still struggling to deport illegal Afghans

“The Americans have so much to learn.” “You mean that a multipolar world is emerging, and the US is no longer the sole superpower?” “No...

20.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The system is in place so shut up or put up

“Why are you in mourning?” “The death…” “Inna Lillahi wainnailaihiraji’un” (we belong to Allah and to him we will return).“...

19.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ZULFIQAR AHMAD

x“There is briefing and then there is briefing.” “What an inane observation.” “Say what you will, there is a difference between who is...

18.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The greater the threat perception, the larger the stopper

“I can understand.” “I can’t – you give an ultimatum to Russia that unless they accept a ceasefire without considering or negotiating the...

17.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The profundity of filial sentiment

“I can’t understand the logic behind the move.” “You don’t need logic but understand filial sentiment as far as the decision of the...

16.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

WTO: Struggling for survival

Questions are being raised about the present day relevance of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) established in 1995 subsequent to Trump...

15.07.2025 50

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Let it be with Caesar

“So is everyone on the same page or not?” “Talal Chaudhary, rewarded for his loyalty to the Heir Apparent…” “Who is the heir apparent?...

13.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Has Dar read a certain IMF document?

“So Dar has announced a Special Economic Zone for Turkish entrepreneurs in Karachi.” “My question to him is: has he read the International...

12.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: We are not the only ones who define stabilisation as success in borrowing

“We are the trailblazers.” “Right, we are the only ones who define economic stabilisation as getting access to external loans.” “That’s...

10.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The deep state in power in most of world’s democracies?

“So going back to a former Interior Minister…” “Granted that he did not win the 2024 elections…your cough is as artificial...

05.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The difference between ‘same page’ and ‘same side’

“So thank the Lord all our acting chief justices have been confirmed.” “So the glass is half full hunh?” “As The Man Who Must Remain...

04.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Putting both feet into the one mouth

“It takes a while to adjust to changed circumstances.” “IF you are referring to the Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless…” “No.”...

03.07.2025 20

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: How many constitutional clauses are followed in letter and spirit?

“A star is born.” “I heard Chaudhary Nisar was visited by the Prime Minister at his home.” “Two things, first he is not born – or reborn...

02.07.2025 10

Anjum Ibrahim

Budget FY2025-26 passed

The budget passed without any hiccups as expected reflecting a high degree of confluence of parliamentary opinion that included party (Pakistan Muslim...

01.07.2025 50

Anjum Ibrahim

PARTLY FACETIOUS: ‘Do scouts have honour?’

“What’s the difference between US politicians and their Pakistani counterparts?” “The bravado about ending the hold of the deep state...

29.06.2025 10

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