Blood carbon
AMID the pressing need to confront climate change, the emergence of carbon markets has gained prominence. In these markets, industries acquire the privilege of emitting carbon dioxide by committing to…
Economy: performance of govts since Gen Musharraf’s bloodless coup
Lately, economic performance under various regimes based on certain indicators is the current focus of debate in the community of analysts. However, economic indictors cannot be seen in isolation. Economy…
Hajj gives Sudanese faithful brief respite from country’s bloody conflict
The hajj pilgrimage has given Sudanese faithful Kamal Kabashi a brief respite from his country’s bloody conflict. Having safely arrived in Islam’s holiest city, he was praying for peace. Only…
The wrath of blood
It is difficult to make much sense of what is happening around us within the precincts of logic and reason. But not only is this enactment of desertion and desecration…
Bloody legacy
In cafés at night, Iraqis were glued to their television screens. Their istikanat of cardamom tea cold, forgotten beneath the undulating smoke of the night’s thousandth cigarette. In living rooms,…
Blood money
The BBC reports that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, during an interview, accused Germany and Hungary of paying “blood money” for Russian petroleum. Russia could earn $320 billion from energy exports…
Blood Money
Some professions are directly linked to injury, or early death. In the late 1960s a family friend was a squadron leader in the Pakistan Air Force. He used to fly…
New blood at Wall Street’s old guard rattles Corporate America
A new generation of executives at the world’s biggest asset managers is helping drive an uprising against Corporate America that environmental and social justice activists have long campaigned for. The…
Blood over politics
IN a world away from Afghanistan, Pakistani politics is picking up pace. Parties and individuals are making moves, big and small, some in the full glare of publicity and some…
Blood and oil
THERE was nothing new in the US intelligence assessment about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi released last week. Anyone with even a few active grey cells had realised the identity of the…
