cyrilalmeida.com — LAWYERS tend to complicate things. Ask them to describe the colour red and soon you'll be hearing about 'vermilion', 'burnt sienna' and 'rose madder'. It helps, though, to remember that lawyers are...
cyrilalmeida.com — LIKE the Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning, many here are counting the ways but not in answer to the question, 'How do I love thee?' They are gleefully counting the ways in which they...
cyrilalmeida.com — TO hear many people tell it, the future of democracy itself rests on the fate of Asif Ali Zardari. For some, that means getting him out at any cost a come-what-may approach that sometimes seems...
cyrilalmeida.com — WHAT'S holding up the constitutional amendment package? Raza Rabbani and his elves have been hard at work for months; the politicians swear they want it done sooner rather than later; heck, even the...
cyrilalmeida.com — WAS President Zardari's speech to the party faithful this week such a big deal? Not really. Or at least it shouldn't have been. Another speech by another leader of a party long used to casting itself...
cyrilalmeida.com — QUICK: name the chief justice of India. Can't? How about Australia then? Brazil maybe? Canada, France or China? Russia, Malaysia or Turkey? That CJ Iftikhar is a household name isn't of course his...
cyrilalmeida.com — DON'T look now, President Zardari, but your Christmas stocking has a lump of coal stuffed in it, courtesy 17 men in black robes instead of red suits. Comeuppance for a record of broken promises and...
cyrilalmeida.com — AFGHANISTAN is so last week. What with the NRO hearings, suicide bombings, drone strikes, talk of the Quetta shura and Al Qaeda's safe havens there really is too much going on for anyone to think...
cyrilalmeida.com — WHAT does it mean for Pakistan? That's the $64,000 question that no one really knows the answer to, at least not yet. We kind of know what Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan means for that country:...
cyrilalmeida.com — KARACHI: The Dubai debt crisis causing turbulence in financial markets internationally may not pose any immediate or serious risk to the Pakistani economy but it could hurt individuals and complicate...
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