Stability: Dhaka vs Islamabad
A lot of people ask why Bangladesh has been able to manufacture over a decade of economic growth enabling political stability. Part of the answer casts the intensity and transformative…
Talking heads
MUCH can be said about the Punjab government’s uncharacteristic responsiveness (or, rather, overreaction) to the minor frenzy surrounding an amateurish sculpture of Allama Iqbal in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, Lahore, images of…
How free?
IN February 2017, the University of California, Berkeley, invited conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus. More than 100 masked agitators, supposedly belonging to an ‘anti-fascist’ group, showed up…
A night for literature
I normally do not write on anything related to the corporate sector for two reasons. First, the corporate sector in Pakistan – or in any other country for that matter…
Call for holistic plans to address cyber security challenges
Speakers at a five-day Hands-on Network Security training and workshop emphasized upon strengthening of national cyber security capabilities through development and well-coordinated mechanisms, implementation of security standards and regulations under…
State Bank face unheralded HEC in Patron’s Trophy final
The State Bank of Pakistan will be ‘red-hot’ favourites to clinch the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II cricket title when they meet the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the four-day final at…
De facto to de jure
Maulana Tariq Jameel said it best at the Supreme Court’s population conference: “Our judges are such [a] blessing as they keep doing what they aren’t responsible for. God Bless them”.…
Changing our game
Mahathir Mohamad, the newly-elected prime minister of Malaysia, was quoted as saying that: “China comes with a lot of money and says you can borrow this money. But you must…
Hunger games – II
Dharna II or the Islamabad lockdown was a fishing expedition. Its stated object was to paralyse the federal government and forcefully remove the prime minister. It failed. Thank God for…
Judicial accountability
“The real threats to independence of judiciary are from within — stemming from the personality of the judge himself”. — Justice Asif Saeed Khosa. AN interesting aspect of media and political…
