Adieu Khaled Ahmed!
My friend, Editor, journalist of 40 years standing, Khaled Ahmed passed away on Sunday night, November 17, 2024. He had been ill with an array of old age afflictions for…
The IHC six
LETTERS are the new black in Pakistani politics. If the week before it was about the letters related to Aitchison College, more recently, pen was put to paper in the Islamabad High…
Infrastructure blues
LAHORE has traffic jams and traffic congestion in the morning and afternoon; not when offices/businesses open and close, but when school sessions begin and end. Roads are chock-a-block with cars,…
Boarding schools
BOARDING schools have long been an integral feature of the educational landscape worldwide. These schools provide education and boarding facilities for children aged six to 11 years or 13 to…
Swim, or sink
PAKISTAN’S governments have been variously arrogant, condescending, incompetent, steeped in self-interest, mired in corruption. They included constitutional contortionists and presidential despots anointed with the unholy oil of judicial dispensation. Most…
Who owns Pakistan?
Given the deafening buzz that the so-called Karsaz accident had created, its finale on Friday is bound to generate excited conversations about the message that it purportedly has delivered. The…
Elite finance ministers
“I COMPLETELY empathise and sympathise [with the people],” remarked Pakistan’s finance minister as the tax-loaded Finance Bill 2024 was passed by the National Assembly. In a country where more than…
The lone ranger
IT took our solitary Olympic gold medallist Arshad Nadeem to remind us of the old adage: Success has many fathers but Failure is an orphan. No matter how many awards,…
Quotas may not be the perfect answer
Recent weeks have seen grave unrest in Bangladesh, with students going on a rampage against quota allocation for government jobs. Since 1972, Bangladesh has filled positions in civil services based…
Third time’s [not]the charm?
Although it couldn’t prevent Narendra Modi from winning a third back-to-back term, the opposition in India has done a creditable job by cutting him down to size. The man who…
