Blatant Anglophiles
When V S Naipaul died on August 11, 2018, at the age of 86, the news triggered a train of thought that evoked another name of similar, or perhaps greater,…
Swinging Quetta – 1950s/60s
In 2007, my niece suggested that a family entourage drive up to Quetta/Ziarat over a long weekend. I tried to dissuade her, suggesting instead Dubai. But she prevailed (one can't…
Sindh’s changing history
The history of any society doesn’t remain static, but changes as a result of internal and external pressures. When a nation is invaded by foreign powers and defeated, its political,…
Winged seeds of the west wind
The BBC showed a damning report on communal violence in Gujarat; a ripping investigation by a US company into alleged financial turpitude scalded a nouveau riche Indian tycoon in whose private plane…
‘One as beautiful as you’
CRITICALLY important national institutions always need persons who may be said to embody its aspirations, essence and experience. The Pakistan Foreign Service is one such institution. It has been fortunate…
The broken promise of reserved seats
On July 12, 2024, the Supreme Court held that the PTI was a political party for the purposes of Articles 51(d) and 106 of the constitution, and it was thus…
Biden only complicates it for us
IN the end we have to fight our own battles, be it for democracy or justice or human rights, and with the singular resolve to win them. There isn’t another…
Colonial collusion
BRITISH India’s laws on rape, adultery, homosexuality, witch-hunting and blasphemy were codified in the Indian Penal Code (1861) by Thomas Macaulay and the first Indian Law Commission. Sedition and defamation…
Social media-fuelled lynchings shock India
The smartphone footage shows the two blood-soaked men pleading for their lives. Moments later they were dead, two more victims of lynchings sparked by rumours spread on Facebook and WhatsApp…
Writing history
It is assumed that American society is a melting pot which assimilated and integrated all immigrants who arrived in the new world. It appears that the assumption is not wholly…
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